Tips and Tricks

The Miniature Painting Step Most Articles Skip Buyer guides for “the best 3D printer for miniatures” rank machines by their ability to produce printed parts at high enough resolution to look like miniatures. They rarely cover the bridge between the printed mini and a paint-ready miniature, which for FDM-printed minis is a multi-step prep process…

When You Need to Split a Model and When You Should Not The instinct of many beginners is to never split a model — keep the print in one piece, treat splitting as defeat. That instinct is wrong. There are real cases where splitting produces a better result than printing whole: when the model exceeds…