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  giorgis 3:32 pm on June 28, 2026 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: 3dprinting ( 60 ), arbiter, fantasy ( 106 ), FDM ( 3 ), minis ( 174 ), painting ( 191 )   

  Miniatures pt167 – Adventurers (and a foe) 

  As I wrote some time ago, I have started creating a new album for my miniatures photos. However the app I was using for the new photoshoot changed while I was in the progress of doing it, and it kinda has made me lose my footing. White balance is off, focus is different, and I had already shot 1000 photos.

  Well here are some miniatures I finished painting during this period, that’s why I didn’t post them back then. Still, I decided to go ahead and proceed with the post, otherwise I might miss it.

  They’re Arbiter Miniatures. A barbarian, a female knight, a dwarf berserker, and a re-doing of the skeleton warrior.

  They’re printed at 15mm scale (60%) on a BBL@A1mini, 0.2mm nozzle, eSun PLA+HS and 0.06mm layer height.

  

  

  

  

   

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  giorgis 6:12 pm on April 19, 2025 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: 3dprinting ( 60 ), arbiter, fantasy ( 106 ), minis ( 174 ), painting ( 191 )   

  Filament matters 

  

  

  Mini from Arbiter miniatures, scaled down to 15mm. ELEGOO PLA Pro Purple. Bambu Labs A1 mini with 0.2mm nozzle. 0.06mm layer height.

  So back to basics
  I got a new ELEGOO PLA Pro to test versus my ELEGOO PLA basic. After doing all relevant calibrations I tried using it with the highly fine tuned settings I had for basic (0.03mm layer height, low speeds, etc).

  The results I got were disheartening at least. I got really fine stringing like hair which would cause minor imperfections.
  I tried adjusting temperatures, retractions, z-hop, drying the filament. Nothing worked 100%.

  Then I remembered a lesson I had learned when starting 3d printing: back to basics. Whenever something doesn’t work, reset to default settings.

  I switched to the Bambu default presets for 0.06mm layer height High Quality.
  The results were amazing. Rigid printing minimal layers, no imperfections.

  My theory is that the different properties of Pro are more rigid, so it doesn’t allow the squishing of my other settings I was using for basic. However it works really well with default settings perhaps it fixes itself better together with no curling, stringing or gaps.