Hi friends; looking for advice!
Ahoy, just joined this sub after a lot of internet trawling. I have a bit of experience with resin miniature printing, however due to living in a pretty small apartment have since gotten rid of it as the fumes got a bit too much. I've recently been trying to see what's possible with miniature printing through FDM and stumbled across you guys.
I was looking at the Bambulab P1s, P2s, and the A1/A1mini and can't really decide what the best plan of attack is. I keep seeing reference to getting the 0.2mm nozzle, and from the pictures I've seen that looks like the go-to option; however I'm somewhat struggling to see the real differences between those printers?
I guess at the end of the day my real question is: How much tinkering/testing/modification did it take with these printers to get decent quality miniatures? Is it really just a plug-and-play change, fix up 3 settings and it's good to go? A lot of the advice I'm finding online is from around a year / two years ago, so I'm sure things have changed since then?
Additionally, what kind of steps are taken to dull-down/mask the layer lines after printing/before painting?
I'm hoping to get into Trench Crusade with a few of my buddies, and get back into Battlefleet Gothic eventually; but really don't want to set up another resin printer. Any advice would be great!