The ULTIMATE HACK for Any Resin Printer? - Prusa CMYK Colour Resin Kit
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- Опубліковано 24 вер 2024
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Honestly, i think it would be easier to spray paint the resin prints rather than change out each vat for a color.
Yeah, Probably would have been
Yes but, if you can print it and clear coat, its fantastic!!!!
@@cgrosbeck That's what I did here. I just didn't put much focus on the clear-coating bit, other than showing the parts on stands
I would guess that this is just the start of them getting into custom resin colors. In a couple months or years I would expect to see options for translucent colored resins or even a blended resin mix that lets a machine add a small drop of a color after every layer or 12 so it shifts colors through the print.
It's also only one of the first commercially available option. While I haven't really looked into it you should be able to dye your own resins without mixing pre colored resins. With uv epoxy resin dye. No guarantees and don't have enough desire to risk my printer testing when most of the colors I want already have off the shelf options or I can just paint the parts myself.
Excited to see where this goes
I was wondering if one could go from the printed colour to the next by adding xyz amount of colour to reuse the one already in the vat.. which would need the amount of resin left in the tank to know how much to add for the next colour.. this could cut a lot of work if the printer has a function of measuring the left resin...hope you get my point across :D
It is one of those ideas that sounds cool at first but then when you really think about and actually try to do it, you realize why no one else is doing this.
yes! I realised as I was doing it why I don't want to do it
i reckon if you doing 2 maybe 3 max colours it might be worth it.....but, as said ya better off painting, even leaving all the accects and blending etc out and just paint the main colours like this resin one and i still think it would look better🤔...Cheers from A M8 Downunder🙃
Cheers for the shout out, you legend! great video!
I've subbed to ya !!
Funny enough, I went to sub to you, only to realize that I allready had, and I hadn't subbed to fauxhammer 😂
I think there is potential for very specific uses......for example I produce (and sell) replacement ears for a well known robot dog. I already buy different colour resins and mix my own colours. If I could scan an original ear, put the colour in the prusa data base thingy and get a formula to produce the perfect (and repeatable) colour it would be a game changer for me. I could then make up a vat of each colour I need and print like crazy. The fact I could repeat the colour exactly when I run out of resin would be an added bonus.
Oh....and the prusa XL is AWESOMLY AMAZING. ;)
Great Suggestion!
Got confirmation this Morning... XL IS COMING!!!! I'M SO EXCITED!
Thank you for your shout out friend! Great build!
You Saw it!!!! Mate, i am such a huge fan of your work.... Those designs blew me away! every single one is incredible!!!!!
@@FauxHammer yes sir! Someone mentioned this in my group chat and I just follow this channel instantly! Really appreciate your support and now I know there is a different way of printing my work.
@@Rockyq_Mecha Thanks Mate, And yeah, for your Gunpla models, I could see that as an application for the different pieces/ this was probably a bit of a tougher activity, but as I said, designers such as yourself have never considered designing things like this in colour-based components. I;m curious if this may change now....
But as others have said, It's probably just easier to paint the parts... Sanding resin is not the best...
@@FauxHammer tools are always evolving that drives how design carries out too. I will always taking that consideration into my design. Most gunpla builders prefer airbrushing but when stepping out to other toy/print sections multi color printing may be more preferred.
For gloves I use the one for kitchen, the thick one. After I'm finished I rub some isopropyle alcool to "clean it" and I suspend it for drying. After that I never touch it, I only touch the rim when I want to put it on.
I still use disposable gloves for touching any resin that might go back into the bathroom or bottle but I use a pair of stainless steel kitchen tongs to move things between run off to first iso rinse and then the same tongs into a ultrasonic iso tank and then a second pair of gloves to remove supports and put it into my curing box.
I guess I could use non disposable more durable gloves to remove supports and then I'd be down to 1 or 2 gloves instead of 2-4 per print plate
latex slowly lets through stuff from the resin. A box of disposable nitrile gloves can last a good while even if you throw out a pair after each use and its a bit better for your skin (lot of arguments about it online...)
There is a dye set specifically for UV resin. Instead of being large volumes of resin it's super concentrated dye. Then all you're doing is using pure white / clear resin and adding very small amounts of dye.
Still somewhat a pita to clean bit I've never had issues with the excess resin with the S4U build plate messing with the color. I do have multiple build plates so I can hang them for long drip-off periods.
Micropipettes work amazing for that style of resin tinting too!
This process looks fiddly as hell, but just as cool! I know allot of folks won't be interested in this but as an artist that doesn't mind the idea of color mixing this REALLY interests me!
I think it could be useful for articulated figures, the plastics is dyed for those, but then it would need to be scratch resistant so you don't get the resin dust from joints grinding against each others
I wouldn't use it but it's a good option for someone who wants to color mix resin
The cheeky size comparison bit was hilarious. Don’t let the haters keep you from being funny! Thanks for the awesome video as always!
Send this man prusa printers.
If you are going to do this... best to get multiple vats with some type of sealing system so then you can let it sit aside and use it the next time.
This was awesome Ross. Thanks for trying this out. When I was in an Automotive store in NYC I saw reusable Nitril Gloves that came in a pack. They had several varieties, the thicker gloves seemed the easiest to wash off with water.
6:26 "Foreskin tones" 😂
Haha came here to post the exact same thing
To be honest, you’re like one of maybe three people that I follow their advise on resin printing that’s on UA-cam. And yes, Prusa, send him a printer.
Thank you for your continued honesty.
colour resin kits have been out for ages. i was using them 5 years ago though the bottles kits where more dyes rather than pre mixed resin colours.. all we needed back then was the white resin and black resin of your own choice. but its always good to see other companies bringing out there own version of colour kits..
I like having different vats for different resins. Little plastic wrap and put in the original packaging. For this color idea might be useful. Could print a storage system for them
fair point, if people wanted to do that on repeat
This is VERY interesting for me. I have a small print farm as a side project in my company and wish to make resin figurines that are using colored resin. So I will definitely try this out when I have time to add resin printers to my farm.
Branding with CMYK matching would be a great use here. Whether a small shop selling things, an Educational Institution or anything like that being able to 100% match and comply with a particular color without painting would be an excellent use case. But for most hobbyists its more of a novelty for sure.
I agree that this sort of thing could definitely work for different colored factions. I am developing a skirmish game and the idea of having a relatively durable resin in specific colors could be beneficial.
I use thick rubber gloves you'd normally use for dish washing. You can get them in any supermarket. They last ages as you can clean them with alcohol or just leave out in the sun for resin to harden.
I jumped on the sl1 train day 1. It’s a very nice paper weight that prints very nice models. I also have to scale most models down typically 50 to 80 % just to fit anything on its adorable little build plate. It genuinely feels like printing on a business card. It’s painful… and I love it
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
You review Printers like I Review Printers.
I think its really good for industrial design prototypes where the parts needs to be a certain color while keeping dimensional accuracy to allow for assembly and disassembly. Also the bare plastic look is still quite different from a paint finish
Even though the HeyGears' resins are in proprietary bottles, 3rd party resins can still be used, including water washable resins.
Print quality is still top notch without the ridiculous cost. Also, I hope Prusa sends you their printers. Cheers.
I make custom mixes for rigidity or flexibility and with different colors when using clear resin. Haven’t done much with it but, this seems like a nice way to go.
RockyQ's models are incredible nd seeing his work randomly pop up in your video has made me very happy
Yeah right... I only knew of the Eva bust as James had it, but yeah, this guy's stuff is awesome!
@@FauxHammer I would absolutely LOVE to see you tackle one of his UG tier builds
@@nilbobby Of all the Gunpla I showed in this video, do you know how many I've gotten done since filming it?
1 arm of MG Providence - and that one wasn't even in the shot!!!
Disposable gloves was something I moved away from really early on with Resin printing. Instead I just got some slightly heavier latex gloves, similar to what you'd use for washing up the dishes. They work great and the one pair has lasted nearly 3 years.
How do you clean them?
Thanks!
@@firelion98 Every time that I use them. In terms of how I clean them I just put my hands into the IPA bath that I rinse my model in, and then I dry off with a paper towel and it goes with the rest of the waste.
Just because something CAN be done doesn't mean it SHOULD be done.
I think this holds potential if you need to hit a certain colour, but not sure it's worth all the extra work and cost overall.
The vat cleaning would be a pain, but the concept seems pretty cool. Love the model choice.
I use thicker reusable nitrile gloves. After handling the resin I always put it outside to dry, sometimes I even cure it manually under my UV lights. Gets a bit stiffer but still works (thats what she said)
I think where this would shine is in bigger batches. For print farms, Etsy, people who sell a higher volume, people who have multiple printers, where having the ability to leverage doing full plates or one printer doing one or two parts that require one colour . Another option would faction armies with a base layer colour to then paint over. Having have dedicated colour mixes where your mixing colours in larger volumes is where this would be useful. Sure it works in a one off model but as you showed its a lot of extra work vs painting.
I added a strip of floor anti-slip stickers on my Saturn 4 Ultra plate to prevent slipping after I saw your caution in previous review.
This excites me. I have a long term desire to model and print some figurines and was already planning to print them in individual parts using different coloured resins. This kinda system just leans into that. It would be good if this system could be expanded to include ABS-like resins. If it did.. this seems like.. it would be main main resin system of choice for "final product" and and other pre-coloured resins would be relegated to prototype work.
PRUSA! Give the man your biggest printer! I wanna see a fair review.
This is a really neat idea. I personally don’t like the idea of all the mess which is why I don’t have resin printers. That’s why I need fauxhammer to review these products and printers!
I would consider this product if I did print in resin though. I don’t enjoy painting, and this feels like less waste compared to say a Bambu AMS multicolor print.
Very cool stuff. I’d love to see you review the Prusa printers if you get a chance!
This could be amazing with a separate unit that makes the color for you. Like normal paint mixers, you key up the color you want and the volume of material you need and it mixes and pumps that exact amount out. We're still left with a waste color that isn't used however and I do not have an easy fix for that. Maybe a whole new printer with the system built in and rotating up colors... So you slice up build plates in the slicer and set colors to them it calculates what colors it can start with and then if possible shift to another color by adding more material to it. It seems like more trouble than it's worth but they said that about color 2D printers as well.
Besides multicolor printing of a model assembled from multiple parts, I can see a useful and not so complicated potential use for the CMYK resin kit: making a simpler monochromatic, monolithic object in any desired particular tint that does not exist off the shelf (because admittedly, there are not so many resin colors available out there compared to FDM filaments). As some other people already commented, you can alternatively spray paint the object afterward, instead of mass color-impregnated during printing. YMMV
May have helped if the plan included printing in order of lightest to darkest colors. Possibly eliminating the extreme cleanup till the end as the large volume of darker color would overwhelm the traces of lighter color from prior print
About the only thing I can see a use case for this (coupled with the cost) would be if you've got an engineering cut out model that requires very specific colours... even then it'd be far less hassle/more than likely faster just to paint the thing once printed. I'd just stick to painting the resin once printed in a neutral base colour personally.
As for the grip issue on the build plate, thanks to your review, I did a simple little finger grip design and printed them off in TPU (on the harder end of the shore scale) and stuck them on with a bit of tesa tape (I used this stuff to stick on iMac screens after doing SSD upgrades, they aren't coming off easily), no more grip issues.
It's a very easy system to use, it seems! One step closer to a hobby full color resin printer. (One can dream afterall)
There are some silicone gloves that last a little longer than the single use nitrile gloves. You could also use dishwashing nitrile gloves. Those are pretty sturdy and easy to clean.
It’s pretty useful when we don’t have enough space to have a SLA and a FDM machines. So I can do FDM like parts with my SLA machine. To partially resolve the problem of the cleaning, it would be the good moment to buy add vats. One per color for those who use the same colors (like gunpla like you said).
yeah, I can see that being a thing
I would like to see Epson get into the 3d printing market.
Using a ink jet method, where most of the print center is white and the outside is printed with the color.
Then a uv light scans over the top per layer to harden. For supports you could use the material that dissolves in water. With that method you could get true color and extremely high resolution with very little waste.
I see really a good use if a company wants the parts in "there" color accounting to the Corporate design.
About the resin gloves: I use Ansell TouchNTuff 92-500 gloves. A bit more expensive, but I can use them for many print sessions (I put a L and R on the back of the gloves, so I keep putting them on the same hand). The crappy cheap black nitrile gloves sometimes don't last 1 session.
About the coloured resin. If you can afford it, buy it. But I think printing a model with 1 colour and painting it, is cheaper and less of a hassle.
Hmm this does give me an idea for CMYK painting though.
In the packaging manufacturing space: they often use progressively layered stencils, 1 for each primary color. They spray cyan, change the stencil, spray magenta, change the stencil, etc. you're able to get full color printing very very quickly.
This of course is on a 2d plane.
What if, for resin prints: we printed out a set of 3d stencils surrounding the model, and you do the similar CMYK stencils that packaging printers use? This could even be built into slicers.
Hmm I'm going to experiment...
As always, fantastic review! I love the colors you can make/use, but I also understand the hellish clean-up aftet per print. 😢
Also, you should stop listening to those people who are negative or try to get a rise out of you. You are one of the best, if not the best person when it comes to resin 3D printing. As you provide great information and humorous commentary for all of us to enjoy. Also, spreadsheets rock!!
Thank you for not only be a fan to us Anime/Mecha fans, but thank you for your hard work and dedication.
Also Prusa, send him a printer already!
The main thing that comes to mind is these are more scratch resistant than painting on a model, maybe for flexible parts that need to be in a very certain color? Seems like a pretty small usecase. You'd have to be pretty obsessive about your colors to want this.
Give the man a Prusa.
I don’t know how i feel about this. My solution to this has always been to just add pigments and record the amounts. It doesn’t really change the print times and it creates really vibrant colors and it is rather cheap. Mica cost next to nothing as do most pure artist pigments. But this would definitely make it more accessible. Also I just don’t bother with thorough cleaning between color changes as long as you get rid of most of it I’ve found that most of the time you can’t tell the variation unless you are looking really closely. And I usually will do some painting over it after using a clear primer. It just makes priming and base layers a lot faster.
The only use I can really see for this is if you need a specific color that's not commercially available. For instance, I needed a real plum-colored purple for a project a couple months back, but the only purple I could find was more lavender than purple. I had no other choice than to use it, but it would've been nice to mix the shade I needed with this -- even as expensive as it is.
I liked the joke and hope you get prusa printers to test. ❤
I would love something like this to make action figures…..but with that…. It would really depend on the scratch resistance and anti powdering of the resin itself. If this is the case and has those features…. This would be freakin awesome
One way to avoid using gloves is to never touch resin-y parts. Put whole plate into bath and let it wash. Let it dry and pop the model off. Only after that becomes first touch with model, removing supports, and final cure, and one can use paper towel to avoid direct contact. Yes, vapors will stick to plate handle, but not much. If so, clean it before taking it out of the printer.
Cleaning the vat is totally different story, though after scraping resin out with silicon spatula, they (vat and spatula) can go to wash as well.
Or use glove in one hand, which never touches anything clean outside the print area (cover, touch display, itchy nose), while the free hand never touches anything that is or has been inside print area.
However, if one is or has become *sensitive* to resin, use as many gloves as needed (or ditch resin printing entirely, there are nice filament printers with decent print quality).
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Don't waste unused colored resins - bottle them up for generic gray, or 💩 color - or if not mixed, acid trip 😉
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Like color-mixing filament printers, as long as one can't put 100% M and 100% Y, the result will not be 100% red. At least that's how CMYK behaves in press and color (paper) printers, e it inkjet or laser (yes, K is almost fully reduced from C, M and Y, but it's different). Or maybe Prusa has actually thought this out (often they have thought things out) and the resins are so saturated, that their mixes can produce vibrant colors 🤔
i guess the color consistency is what matters, compared to premixed colors. i have seen different colors on apparently same-color resin
G'day Mr Hammer .... Thankyou for all the effort into making this perticular vid....and your subject for the bust was an excellent choice (im big 50yr old Anime Nerd or Otaku by japanese . It give me memories of the late 80's an 90's collecting Anime from Madman, all VHS. Anime back then was more dark than most today but there is always a new One Piece and Dragonball out there waiting. Your all resin bust of Eva-1 was brilliant but im afraid of short term colour loss. Big Cheers from A M8 Downunder🙃....ps im a massive Gundam and Macross fan when it comes to Mecha, you picked another great type of kit and take care those things go up in value if only a short run🤑
The price drop at the end was hilarious. It's an interesting product, but you hit all the points already why it wouldn't work for me. Thanks for showing it off, though
Heygears has a CMYK kit too (although it is way more expensive).... It has its uses but from what I've seen, most people use inks to colour their resin so this comes down to quality and saturation of the colour itself.
Please send him a printer Prusa! All that work to then find could just print everything in grey and paint. Thank you for suffering through to that conclusion!
This kit isnt so mutch about multi coloured prints, as a colour matching kit. Like going to the DIY store and getting a paint matched. I could do with matching some prints to some composite decking boards, to make edging strips to hide corner joints.
Now what would be cool, is if we had a machine that could scan the colour of an object and dispense the exact amount of each resin to replicate it.
I use white resin with resin ink. no need to buy 4 different colors of too expensive resin. 👌👌
Do you get deep rich colours or is it all quite pastel? I'm getting lots of comments like this in the feed
Fly me to the moon was such a nice touch
Also, because I have to, Evangelion has a hard G
You can use ANY acrylic inks, mica powder, pigments and even glitter with SLA resin with absolutely no problems at all!!
I made a few YT videos a while ago using uv inks and glow in the worlds most powerful glow powder. Personally I think UV inks are best because your prints glow like uranium glass under black light..
Please don't waste money on a kit just use your favourite abs resin add a few drops of ink or a spoon of pigment and BOOM your in business, you can even use colour changing pigment!!
I feel like people who chose a resin printer over FDM are miniature painters... sooooo multi-color resin is kinda useless.
FDM can already do some pretty good "table top" quality miniature prints nowadays too. So someone who wants to print armies in different colors would probably be best served with FDM.
It's still cool though!
Idk if you ever thought of it…
But it really looks like you need a Prusa XL with all the tool heads, and maybe a backup mk4 with the mmu.
As for uses I could see this resin “ink” style being used by small businesses for custom coloured /branding/promotional items especially in small orders by a startup or new 3d printing business. I’ve never owned a3d printer (or even owned one) but as someone who knows about design I know that brand recognition is often achieved best by colour consistency and since many manufacturers require larger orders than achievable for a new/small business I can see this as a good use case.
 Chemical Protective Glove Set with Cotton gloves for mixing and cleaning. They are little too thick and stiff for handling small items but not impossible.
Interesting. I think someone can come up with a 9 pocket resin tray, 2 IPA rinse pockets and CMYKW++ colors over the screen, then move the build platform to the needed color, expose it, rinse it, then go to the next position for another color. The 2 + + pockets can be custom colors. Probably someone could take such system to the next level and by changing the exposure profile etc to either mix resins on the fly or dither them to get infinite colors. Probably wouldn't be ridiculously expensive to do it. Tell Prusa to try it, they seem to be interested in this space based on your video. Thank you.
Small scale company colour scheme items? Eg custom trade show stands/fittings that match a company’s colour scheme.
I use heavy duty nitrile cleaning gloves and have been using the same pair for a while. I should probably change them out often though
Personally I think it’s a great idea it’s just the we go about it Disposable cups measuring by weight that would save a lot of cleaning then possibly putting a clear plastic wrap on the vat which was easily removable that would only leave the building plate to clean job done in 5 minutes
Prusa get this man a printer ! ! !
as for the product as you said the resin printing cleaning is a paint in a butt
so i will stick in printing and painting rather the printing cleaning printing etc
They sent me a Mk4 already! and have said they will send an XL. I'm so excited!
Thanks for the video, it opens up a niche in the market. What niche exactly I don't yet know.
Finally, the product nobody asked for
I just used alcohol dye to change the color of my clear resin to a yellow. I don't know if they would work in opaque resins but that is for sure cheaper
I love the last part, "it also cost €160", XD
HAHAH, I'm so glad someone caught that so early on in the comments!
159€ for 3kg of resin. I’ve seen worse. The 1kg bottle alone is 69€ on the website.
Thanks for trying this so we don't have to. Seriously. Resin printing is already enough hassle with cleanup much less cleaning up over and over. I have one printer, and I dread using it most of the time. My FDM printers get used weekly, sometimes daily. I have even swapped a 0.2 nozzle in to get really nice quality. But when you need something truly amazing, even a 4k resin printer will produce something impressive when compared to a well tuned FDM with a 0.2 nozzle going super slow. I hate resin printing. It stinks, it's way more harmful and it irritates me that I love what it can do! 😜
Nice idea, but ...... at the end of the day the models I build (model railway, wagons, coaches and locomotives) get spray painted and then lined out, so I'm going to have to at least apply a primer and topcoat of the right colour(s) etc etc. So probably a non-runner for me. Gloves nitrile - don't use latex gloves as the resin can leech through. I also use a cotton liner glove under the nitrile glove, as the nitrile gloves cause a sweat rash on my hands. Also makes the gloves easier to remove so last a bit langer. Whole heartedly agree about the Saturn 4 build plate - if a non-self leveling traditional 4 screw replacemnt became available I'll put it on pre-order now.
Whenever I'm designing something I always do my best to have different colors be different pieces. I feel the AMS units have made designers perhaps a bit lazy with considering anything that has to do with color. Its still very wasteful to swap color, and adds ton of time. Breaking things into pieces just helps a bunch, but I admit takes more on the design time, which designers want to cut down on. A resin system like this would be such a headache unless they can find a way to automate it.
I could see this being great for those making large prints and having a resin print farm. Not so much for the small hobbyist.
With all the faff that you had to go through: it makes far more sense to just paint them. Even if you had them seperated by colors: spraying a base paint with an airbrush is far far easier than doing so kuch vat cleaning. As it is i just buy white or grey resins and never fully clean the vat until im not going to uwe the orinter for a while.
very interesting, in my work I have built display models of gas turbines and printed them on FDM printers with different parts in different colors. this would let mu do the same on a resin printer with greater detail.
Printing like this could give a more traditional gumpla build but not sure its there yet for the home 3d printer, ive only had a second hand printer for a few weeks now and all that clean up gives me nightmares. Great chanel its been very useful thanks.
Great video as always. I detest cleaning out the vat when I want to use a new resin...to do it this often during a project is just crazy! Who did you say is making that Wolverine, the 'kit' something?
When I first started watching this I was thinking this was neat but couldn't think of what I would do with it. Getting to the end of it shows you had the.same conclusions. It's interesting but not sure why I would want it.
Not for me, because I also enjoy the painting process, but I see this is a step towards something cool in the future. PS - Prusa, send Ross some printers.
Fauxhammer: You mentioned the slippery S4U build plate (Bad design). I added some self adhesive sandpaper, I think 220 grit, to each side where you grab it. No slippage issues since!
Smart
I keep showing people- you don't hold the build plate by the fixture. First, add the drip tray. Then, you lift the latch, hold the top section of the build plate, and slide it forward. You rest the build plate at 45 degree angle on the latch. No more drips, lower the plate flat and then remove.
I do look forward to reasonable multicolor resin printing. Not sure what that looks like yet
Sounds like a good idea. But I think I'll stick to grey resin and old school painting.
Great video, Prusa please send Ross a few of your printers !!!!
PRUSA!!! I need him to have a printer for review!!!
I already do this with clear resin and dyes.
Rubber gloves (Marigolds), I just remove them and place them to the side. I've gone through three pairs in a year.
So considering the exposure time is the same across all the resins, I have thought would it not be cool if you could have a segmented build plate and vat that could house all the different colors at once? I understand that would be a literal pain in the behind to clean (or even try not to drop resin everywhere). Though I think doing eight uniquely printed parts (assuming they're small enough to fit in a dedicated quadrant) would be a cool experiment.
Maybe but you’d basically get just 3 set colours and 3 smaller build areas if it had 3 segments
I imagine a consumer machine that works like the paint mixer at the hardware store. It would have one nozzle for outputting the base resin. It would then have four other nozzles that emitted pigments. You buy a white resin base and could get the pigments separately based on your consumption. You put your vat under it and the machine would pump out the resin based on the volume you wanted and then the pigments to get the color you wanted. It would be then up to you to mix it in the bat and put it into the printer and start the print. What would be even better is if you could enter the colors and quantities you needed for a project. The software could then order the prints such that you could use the left over resin from the previous job as the base for the next color this reducing waste. Hmmm... maybe I should stop here and go patent this idea!
Doubt it's going to be useful for most people but it would be nice to see people push it the same way Bandai is pushing their plastic models with Figure-rise LABO by layering different colors to get realistic skin.
Yeesh, the price!
I mean for extra lazy wargaming being able to print your minis in specific custom colors sounds pretty great. But at that point I wish you could just order your resin based on the ratios and get one large container of your custom color ready to go.
i use reusable rubber gloves like the dishwash gloves and just wipe them off with ipa and keep them
I should try this. They just don’t have as much tactile feedback as nitrile
I have some heavy chemical gloves. 11 bucks for the pair and I have had them for 2 years now. I still have disposable gloves but I use them very rarely.