ANYCUBIC 3D Printer Resin, 405nm SLA UV-Curing Resin with High Precision and Quick Curing & Excellent Fluidity for LCD 3D Printing (Grey, 1kg)

I tied a couple bottle of this out instead off a slightly more expensive product and noticed two things. One, it’s a little more smelly. It doesn’t bother me but the smell did travel throughout the house even with an exhaust fan going and seems to linger. Secondly both bottles have a white filmy stuff floating in the resin. Even after shaking theme the white filmy stuff comes back and I noticed my printed model also showed some white filmy stuff when does printing. Not sure what the deal with that is because I didn’t have the issue with the other brand.

The print quality is as expected. I feel I needed to add extra time to the bottom layers to get adequate adhesion.

First resin I tried that wasnt produced from the company that made my machine. Im not sure if my critique is base from inexperience or happenstance, but this resin seems to be better than what I was using. The detail seems good, it seems to leave no extra resin boogers in the vat and it left very little resin excess in the tub that I use to alcohol clean the model. The only downside is the fumes. The previous resin fumes were contained in the machine by the cover alone, this stuff seems to blast past that and permeate through doors....

This is probably the 4th or 5th bottle we’ve used and I don’t think I’ll buy another brand ! Prints perfect every time and it’s easy to paint !

Anycubic resin is still probably best resin per dollar I have found. Its not perfect resin but it is also not bad in any area. I normally mix 50/50 with my preferenced brand to get better over all prints. I would just advise to by any anycubic items through Amazon. They have the worst customer service on the planet, and alteast ordering here will provide you some protections.

I find this resin is excellent for miniature details. I also find it pretty durable and cleans nicely. I usually cut off the supports before curing since the contact points are still slightly rubbery and softer and it usually comes out with a cleaner surface. Using 8 second per layer and 60 seconds for the bottom layers seems to work perfectly on my Photon. I rarely have issues with failed prints and in all cases I messed up adding the supports where needed and once adjusted the pieces print great. Adhesion to build plate is no problem. I am also amazed at how small some of the details are that it can print provided it is supported. When cured it has a great surface for painting as well. The pictures above are of 1/72 scale Mandalorian , Razor Crest and Droideka printed on the Photon. You can see how fine the cables on the Droideka are.

I watched a ton of videos online before moving from FDM to SLA. One thing I expected was the resin to be a headache- smelly, nasty, finicky, and expensive. To my absolute surprise and delight, this resin has been none of those. It hardly smells at all- we keep our printer on the dresser of our bedroom, and even with the bottle open or the cover off the vat, I can barely smell the resin from 5 feet away. And the resin has printed like a dream. My wife, who never got into 3d printing with FDM because she thought it was too challenging technically, has commandeered the SLA printer and has now run through several bottles, and is absolutely loving it. The price is great too. All around glad I bought this resin.

Ive had some time to use this and other resins on 28mm miniatures and the like and have come to some conclusions that I want to share. Starting with price, by far best price for results I have found period. As far as resin adhering to the base plate, if your base plate is level and your settings are correct, this Resin is a winner. Detail comes out crisp and strong. Ive put my painted homemade prints next to my painted overpriced British minis and its very hard to tell the difference. The odor exists, but thats about the worst I can say. Compared to some of the others, that is a glowing recommendation. Now for the negatives. There is only one. This resin is very brittle. It is too brittle. Dont think about drilling and pinning or dropping, its a death sentence. I hope to experiment with resin mixes if I ever get my Photon back running (down 3 months). If I find a real, actual fix to the brittle issue I will share it. This is too good a product to write it off for one flaw.

I have been printing with filament for several years now and recently picked up a resin printer for making miniatures. I bought a bottle of the Anycubic Gray because it was highly rated and in my price range. Since then, it has become one of my go-to resins. Price There arent many resins on Amazon that have a lower price tag but that doesnt mean that this is a low quality resin. Print quality I can get great quality on my prints with very little effort. Take a look at the pictures - theyre a little blurry but you can still see that small details come out crisp! Odor I barely notice a smell. Yes, it has one but Ive yet to use a resin that was totally odorless in liquid form. I cant detect a smell once prints cure. Toughness On its own, this models printed with this resin hold up pretty well to being dropped a short distance to the table. They dont survive higher drops than that but that is to be expected. If you want more resilience in your prints, use this as a base and mix in one of the specialty resins made to be tough/flexible. Overall Buy it. Youll like it. It looks runny compared to its closest competitor but theres no noticeable difference in the prints.

So far this product has been great. Sometimes I have a hard time getting it to cure but that could just be me.