Printing miniature figures for table top games  

Re: Printing miniature figures for table top games

Thank you so much for the detailed information, bobstro! I'll be following all of your advice, I greatly appreciate it! 🙂 Placing my orders tomorrow!

Re: Printing miniature figures for table top games

I downloaded the Siepie Cura profile from the 3D Printed Table Top and used it as is. It worked excellently. I did make the slight modification of use a PLA temp of 215 instead of 200 as recommended by Prusa. I printed one of their Dragonborn Elite Captains. Their models are superb.

Re: Printing miniature figures for table top games

I don't actively tabletop game anymore, but I do like to print 1:100/15mm miniatures for calibrating instead of endless Benchys. Here's a comparison done using bog-standard Slic3r settings. Both were printed with identical Slic3r settings, except I used a 0.40mm nozzle (top) and 0.25mm nozzle (bottom) @ 0.10mm layer heights:

Just wondering - did you use support for this?

Re: Printing miniature figures for table top games

Wow thats impressive bobstro. I guess I should wait for my 0.25mm nozzle arriving tomorrow. Really nice work. For now I am getting better details with 0.15 than with 0.1 prints. Even when slowing donw till 25% speed, but might be due to the 0.4mm nozzle I am using.
0.25mm seems to be ideal for miniatures. 0.20mm and smaller don't gain anything for the miniatures I print and just slow down. 0.30mm is just a tiny bit too big to pick out some details.

What sorts of issues are you running into comparing 0.10 and 0.15mm?