r/FDMminiatures

Since buying my A1 I've had a ton of issues and out of around 40 prints only 2 have come out successfully. Nothing is working right. I have cleaned the plates thoroughly. Have the recommended PLA temperatures for nozzle and base set. Have everything supported properly and yet nothing sticks to the damn base or it comes out like this. I cannot print anything smaller than my own hand. I've even done factory resets and tightened the screws behind the nozzle like others have suggested and have tried every quality and mm setting available. Did I just get a FUBAR unit or is there something I'm desperately getting wrong?

Just wanted to post some painted Iron Warriors I printed for 40K using some HoHansen settings. I like the .4 nozzle for the faster print times and now that I’m over 40 I can’t tell the difference as much from tabletop distance.

I revisited one of my earlier designs: a print-in-place door element for my modular terrain system.

The original version already worked quite well, but it didn’t fully match the proportions of the rest of the system anymore. So I updated it—mainly adjusting the height so it fits seamlessly with the other components.

Functionally, it’s still the same idea:
It prints in one piece, without additional supports, and the door is fully movable right off the print bed (after removing a bit of minimal support).

And I have to say, no matter how often I do this, it’s still incredibly satisfying to free the mechanism and open it for the first time.

That “first movement” moment never really gets old.

I’m curious what you think:

– How do you feel about print-in-place elements like this?
– Is this something you’d actually want to use in your terrain?

As always, I really appreciate the feedback, it directly influences how I continue refining the system.

If you want to try it yourself, I put some sample files up for free: https://letsmaketabletop.com/

It’s a complete, standalone set for building single-story structures that works fully on its own and gives you a good impression of the overall system and level of detail.

had my printer for over a year now with very little use (admittedly I was intimidated to start anything serious) and finally kicked myself in the ass to sit down and learn a bit after studying this subreddit and a few YouTube channels for a while now.

Printed this owlbear head as practice with settings and to practice painting and kinda blown away by what my .4 nozzle can achieve.

Decapitated him to have the facing upwards so it didn't need any supports for the face and mouth and it worked great. I'll be trying the rest of the body soon.

A little stringing and a little roughness on the top layers of the bottom feathers but other than that? Kinda insane. Got my lighter a little too close and that's why the tip of the beak is a little rough. Whoopsie. But not bad for my first real try! (R-right?) Tiny one has a little roughness around the sides of the mouth but tbh I got my printer to do larger figures anyway, so the fact it does nice minis at all is just a bonus. I plan on getting a .2 nozzle eventually and can't wait to see what it can do. But for now I have the painting skills of a blind newt so I want to practice up on that (pls pray for me) and for me the larger .4 prints are good enough for that right now😁

Thanks for all the info everyone puts out both on here and YouTube and the immense work you all put into this hobby❤️

My longest print so far and went straight for the whole time! No supports failing or jamming!

Obscura nox settings

A1 mini

Sunlu pla meta at 190 °C

Hi everyone,

This is my first post on this subreddit but I just wanted to show off what I’ve been able to achieve with ObscuraNox’s settings!

This definitely took a lot of patience when removing supports, and I used some short passes with a lighter to clean up a few spots but that’s as far as post processing goes!

I am incredibly impressed, especially with the back.

Super happy to share results like this (especially showing all angles)

Many thanks to the above mentioned creator for such wonderful settings.

Happy printing everyone!

Hi guys, my slicer is full of this sort of thing and floating support beginnings on like, layer 35. I don't really have any question besides why? I change to another orientation or change to organic/hybrid and it looks better but this is very strange to me that the program automatically does it yet leaves high risk failure points all over the print.

Hey their everyone! This is my first time printing and painting minis on my A1 and im quite happy on how it looks but i want to know how could i further improve it? Currently im using PETG because i want it to really last longer than PLA are there other types of filament i could use instead?

Hi All, I've been having some success using the different settings profiles and u/HoHansen settings for supports. I've been happy with the results but the support removal is rough. In the pics you can see there is almost a film of support material towards the bottom of the skirt. What causes that? And any good removal advice?

I saw someone here mention steeping it in water. Anyone have any success with this and if so could you go into detail about it?

https://youtu.be/aNpxMSTInxY?si=SZUo4cXz47CUS4tM

they just updated the program with some cool features if anyone is interested

Sharing images of my recent test prints on H2C. not multi-color yet and no support interface PETG or PVA yet. I tried ObscuraNox as well but didn’t have the best of luck.

Happy to share settings, hoping we can get more info here for others regarding the H2C.

Elegoo cc, 0.2mm nozzle, 0.04mm layer height.

I recently switched over to using some elegoo pla+ cause it was on sale at my local store and I’ve been having a lot more problems then previously, I thought I had it calibrated in and I cleaned the build plate but my supports have been extra fragile

First try on the right.

Some stringing which isn't too difficult to clean up, and if it's the price to pay for details elsewhere I'm happy to pay it. I'm really happy with the level of detail (like hair textures) I'm able to reproduce now that my detail settings are relatively dialed in, I think it's mostly just tweaking overhangs and supports now. It's not "can't believe it's not resin", but even prints on previous settings were plenty good enough at tabletop distance.

Now to get paint on them and see how they look in action. I'm really curious how well the fine details will take dry brushing and washes.

Printed these on my centauri carbon with 0.2mm nozzle. All supportless except for the intellect devourer for which I used resin 2 FDM.

Hey all looking for some good fdm base toppers.

I recently printed this guys base topper and was pretty happy with it but I have tried a few others and haven’t been as happy

This print with the different bits and even the base was 7-8 hours total. Couldn’t be happier