Is FDM 3D printing BETTER now?

We 3D printed our Pirate Ship, Lady Harpy AGAIN. But this time we did it on our brand new Bambu Lab X1 Carbon FDM 3D printer!

If you're a D&D player you must know that FDM printers are a good option to print scatter terrains. But what about the amount of details in the final piece, does it pay off?

We already told you before about our preference between Resin 3D printer and FDM 3D printer in another video, but maybe we changed our minds…Stay until the end to find out!

[waldyro]

I have a Bambulab P1S, and it is amazing. I just printed banner that "hangs" behind a 1/6 scale model that each half is 237mm high. At .08mm layer height and you can't tell it's FDM. The one give away is how the material feels to the touch. It's truly amazing. the only downside is the printing area, It's larger than what I had before, but it would have been nice to have at least at 300mm plate.

[LordWiseWolf]

I love 3D printing. I started with resin but moved to FDM once my daughter was born. I tried the harpy on a SV06 and wasn’t happy with the results. I have a P1S now. Gonna have to try this again over the weekend.

[aartadventure]

"Putting on the screen showing you So savage, but so hilarious 🤣
Seriously though, props for showcasing the power of the bamboo X1 Carbon, and explaining it all carefully in English for us! You guys did an incredible job in this video!

[kcaudle]

Try 3d Gloop PLA glue if you have big FDM projects like this. It is amazing for putting prints together

[stonebrew]

The prints look great. This is such good advertising for the x1 haha. Now I want to buy one!

[luisnegrao]

Such a cool video!!! And btw, impressive quality. Really impressive for a FDM print!!!

[MattLoureiro]

I never get tired of Loot's over the top pieces ❤

[handznet]

Bambu lab finally pushed the things right direction, it is of course not replacing resin in any way but it is finally usable for us who want to print fast and then spend days with painting the stuff.

[SpringfieldFatts]

I like using auto spray paint as a basecoat for FDM prints as it also has a slight filler in it.

[Aisaaax]

It is so disappointing how every YouTube channel concentrates on speed when it comes to FDM. "This printer prints twice as fast!this one is 10% slower! And the quality is good."
Like, i wish people would review the "highest quality" settings, instead so many channels just skip past that.
I don't care if my print takes 40 hours if the quality is 5% better. But no one reviews it well!

[chaoshead]

Great piece of terrain, Loot Studios stuff is awesome!

[manuelkress]

The wooden surface structure also works quite in favor of FDM printing. But I have seen bambulab prints and they look amazing.

[sierraecho]

You can strike a good middle between print time and quality by using a 0.25mm nozzle (smaller diameter will be prone to clogging) and then combine infill every 2-3 layers, print with 0.06mm or 0.08mm layer height and for infill and such use 0.4mm line width for outer walls and other visible surfaces use 0.27mm-0.28mm line width and you can of course use the adaptive layer heights function as well.
You can print up to 0.18mm layer height and 0.4mm layer width with the 0.25mm nozzle to speed up print speed. And just lower all the print speeds by 50%, you will be golden.

[TimGalloVids]

on what settings did you guys get less then 9 hours of printing? i mean on average setting i get like 13 hours for largest part of harpie.

[tantonusabits]

Been in 3D since 2013 with fdm and 2017 on consumer led resin. Achieving near resin quality with 0.25 and 0.3 nozzle for miniature is doable (2018). But near only. Terrain 3D printing still preferable as material price cheap.

[Cizjut]

i must've missed something on the video but how long did the sessions take for each piece? it actually looks phenomenal, but the nozzle size with finer details increases print time 4x

[kevinclements]

You don't have the Bambu 3mf files for your plates by chance, do you? Didn't see those in the downloads

[JasonEdelman]

looking forward to more Large scale models for large sacle FDM printers, maybe as loot rewards?

[gg]

Is there any chance to get the mf3 data for this in the bundle?

[RatoRataooooo]

Hi, I'm Brazuca too, could you please tell me which camera was used to record this video?