Sparkmaker example
I am slowly getting through a lot of video content, of which is the run through of this sparkmaker which is proving to be a great little machine.
Sure, it has some hiccups but the print above was done at 0.5mm (honestly I dont see alot of difference between 0.25 and 0.5 besides the time being doubled.. the LCD is low res so it doesnt really do 0.25 that well anyway)
But the print above which is about 6.5cm high took 6.5 hours, so pretty much 1cm per hour which is not lightning but if I were to print the same thing on my FDM at 0.1 and slow to get the same detail, I think it would still have taken 3-4 hours of printing.
I'm not doingt the entire Hoth scene on the SLA, it was just the head, the rest is just far too large for this tiny weeny machine.
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I have just took the plunge and bought a dlp printer
Is this the same size head you would print through a fdm ? As I have been looking into a sla but I didn't want to get a expensive machine till I knew I could do
I could have printed this on an FDM and for that size I probably would have, but just felt I would get the best quality for painting out of the SLA on the face. The sparkmaker is not expensive... $300 (so about $250U.S) so it really is the base model SLA but as you can see it does work. Resin is the expensive part!
This is why I asked about the feet, I want to print Luke and the tauntaun on the Photon and the base on the FDM machine, hopefully giving me the best of both worlds. :) And you are right, the difference between the 0.025 and .05, I can't see much difference besides the time, even on 28mm minis. :) Good looking print.
I've done a 2 part one, taun taun separate and base separate, ill let you cut or resize as you see fit