Here are a few trade secrets
We get asked a lot of questions and thought it would be helpful to provide some info about how we work
What is your print quality like?
We use some of the best consumer-grade printers on the market within our budget. 3D Printing is known for its imperfections and issues, however we do get very little of them. Here is our standard "bumpf" we use for our marketplace listings:
We use high-quality resin and top-tier resin printers with a 0.3mm layer height to ensure exceptional detail in our prints. While our miniatures are produced to a very high standard, the nature of 3D printing means that some intricate details may not be fully replicated in the raw print. Adding painted details will help bring out the full depth and character of your miniature. All support material is carefully removed, and sanding is performed as needed to ensure your miniature is ready for priming and painting. While we strive for the highest level of quality, some minor touch-ups may still be required. We take great care in our finishing process, but as with any 3D prints, occasional imperfections may occur. Unpainted & unassembled
We use high-quality resin and top-tier resin printers with a 0.3mm layer height to ensure exceptional detail in our prints. While our miniatures are produced to a very high standard, the nature of 3D printing means that some intricate details may not be fully replicated in the raw print. Adding painted details will help bring out the full depth and character of your miniature. All support material is carefully removed, and sanding is performed as needed to ensure your miniature is ready for priming and painting. While we strive for the highest level of quality, some minor touch-ups may still be required. We take great care in our finishing process, but as with any 3D prints, occasional imperfections may occur. Unpainted & unassembled
What is 3D Printing?
Plastic Printing:
Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM), also known as Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) (because apparently, one name wasn’t enough), is basically a hot glue gun on steroids. This 3D printing method works by squirting out melted plastic, layer by layer, like a tiny, very patient robot pastry chef. It follows a predetermined path—no improvisation here—until your masterpiece is complete. The secret ingredient? Thermoplastic filament, which starts as a spool of fancy spaghetti and ends up as whatever creation your heart (or CAD file) desires.
We use this type of printing for our gothic decor and anything that doesn't require tiny intricate details, although our printers are capable of them!
Resin Printing:
Stereolithography (SLA) 3D printing is basically the wizardry of the 3D printing world. Instead of squirting out melted plastic like a glorified glue gun, it uses lasers to zap liquid resin into solid objects—because why not make it feel more like sci-fi? SLA is the go-to for ridiculously detailed, super smooth, and watertight prints, perfect for everything from prototypes to end-use parts. Need something with high accuracy, fine features, and an almost magical finish? SLA’s got you covered—just don’t drink the resin (seriously, don’t). We use resin printing for our miniatures and anything that needs very small, intricate details.
Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM), also known as Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) (because apparently, one name wasn’t enough), is basically a hot glue gun on steroids. This 3D printing method works by squirting out melted plastic, layer by layer, like a tiny, very patient robot pastry chef. It follows a predetermined path—no improvisation here—until your masterpiece is complete. The secret ingredient? Thermoplastic filament, which starts as a spool of fancy spaghetti and ends up as whatever creation your heart (or CAD file) desires.
We use this type of printing for our gothic decor and anything that doesn't require tiny intricate details, although our printers are capable of them!
Resin Printing:
Stereolithography (SLA) 3D printing is basically the wizardry of the 3D printing world. Instead of squirting out melted plastic like a glorified glue gun, it uses lasers to zap liquid resin into solid objects—because why not make it feel more like sci-fi? SLA is the go-to for ridiculously detailed, super smooth, and watertight prints, perfect for everything from prototypes to end-use parts. Need something with high accuracy, fine features, and an almost magical finish? SLA’s got you covered—just don’t drink the resin (seriously, don’t). We use resin printing for our miniatures and anything that needs very small, intricate details.
What Printers Do You Use
We use 4 Bambu Lab P1S - Two of them are capable of multicolour prints, the other two we sold the multicolour bits because we didn't need them.
Our resin machines are Anycubic Photon Mono M7 Pro and Anycubic Photon Mono M5S Pro (he's due an upgrade, bless him)
Bambu Lab have been our go-to brand, whilst the user community is somewhat lacking in support, the actual Bambu support, products and services are absolutely fantastic.
Anycubic are our current go-to brand for resin printing for much the same reason, however, money permitting, the M5S Pro is going to be replaced with a Uniformation GK3 Pro.
We have used the following printers in the past and have not been impressed:
Anycubic Kobra 2
Anycubic i3 Mega
Creality Ender 3
Creality Ender 5 Pro
Elegoo Neptune 4 Max
Our resin machines are Anycubic Photon Mono M7 Pro and Anycubic Photon Mono M5S Pro (he's due an upgrade, bless him)
Bambu Lab have been our go-to brand, whilst the user community is somewhat lacking in support, the actual Bambu support, products and services are absolutely fantastic.
Anycubic are our current go-to brand for resin printing for much the same reason, however, money permitting, the M5S Pro is going to be replaced with a Uniformation GK3 Pro.
We have used the following printers in the past and have not been impressed:
Anycubic Kobra 2
Anycubic i3 Mega
Creality Ender 3
Creality Ender 5 Pro
Elegoo Neptune 4 Max
About our Business
We get asked a lot of questions about pricing etc, which you may find useful here
How Do You Price Your Items?
I'm not giving away all our trade secrets, but we take into account material cost, printing time and whether items can be printed in multiples or if they have to be printed alone. We also take into account any post-processing we have to do.
Why Are You So Cheap?
This is where we upset other 3D printers...
3D Printing is becoming more accessible and since we started, we hear at least once or twice an event "Oh my mate Dave's got one of these" or "Don't buy them, my dad will print you one for 50p"
With this in mind, we feel we need to lower our prices to be in line with other crafts or production methods.
The main reason being, 3D Printing is not a novelty any more and we feel a lot of other printers are still 'over-valuing' their items.
3D Printing is becoming more accessible and since we started, we hear at least once or twice an event "Oh my mate Dave's got one of these" or "Don't buy them, my dad will print you one for 50p"
With this in mind, we feel we need to lower our prices to be in line with other crafts or production methods.
The main reason being, 3D Printing is not a novelty any more and we feel a lot of other printers are still 'over-valuing' their items.
Do You Do Custom Orders?
Absolutely, we love them! Whilst we're still at the start of our 3D designing journey, we have produced a lot of items such as lightboxes, business card holders and even our own range of gothic home decor. Whilst miniature sculpts and prints of your dog are probably out of the question for the time being, we can do a lot of other less detailed stuff including your logo onto things.