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S Thomas

Nova3D Stan Grey resin review - Solid resin for the price.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 August 2020

Size Name: 1000gColour Name: GreyVerified Purchase

Review of Nova3D Stan Grey resin:

The packaging for this resin is nice and neat and has some details about the resin on the cardboard box. The only thing I would add is the stock exposure value recommended by Nova 3D. The bottle that contains the resin is similar to the anycubic bottles, very sturdy and easy to use without spillages.

The 3D printer I use is an Anycubic Photon S.

I tested this resin at both 0.02 and 0.05 layer heights using both supported and non supported print files. The STL’s I used were from Titan Forge’s Bloodfields kickstarter campaign and a trophy base from thingyverse.

The non supported STL files printed at layer height 0.05 without issue using the following basic settings:

Layer: 0.05
Exposure time: 6 - 7
Bottom layer: 2
Bottom exposure time: 30

The pictures show wall sections, banner poles, trophy base and an objective marker.
The Detail is excellent.

The supported STL files were printed at layer height 0.02 and this is where I found some issues. The Goblin, Elf archer and Elf mage all failed to print first time due to the supports breaking. The files were pre supported by Titan Forge and they used some super fine supports in order to get as clean a print as possible. I also tried printing these files at different exposure values and also at layer height 0.05 but the prints always failed. In comparison anycubic translucent green also failed to print until I raised the exposure values to 9-11 seconds.

To fix this I looked at the problem points on the STL and altered it by using larger, more sturdy supports. This worked a treat and so it is possible that the issue lay with the supports and not the resin. (That being said people have had successful prints with the super fine supports using other resins at higher exposure values.)

The settings I settled on for the supported miniatures are as follows:

Layer: 0.02
Exposure time: 5.8 - 6
Bottom layer: 4
Bottom exposure time: 30 - 40
I believe that using altered supports the exposure time may even be lowered to between 4 and 5 for super fine detail but I was not able to test this as I ran out of resin. I am however very happy with the results at 5.8 seconds exposure time.

The resin itself has a very thin consistency and needs to be vigorously shaken before use. The thin consistency enabled me to keep the rising height at 5mm as the resin was able to run under the build plate quickly.

The adhesion to the build plate of this resin is excellent allowing bottom layer counts to be minimal. The adhesion was so good that it became a bit of an issue during clean up. I was not able to release the unsupported prints (printed straight off the build plate) from the build plate without damaging them.

To remedy this I boiled the kettle and poured the hot water around the base of the prints. This is actually shown in a very good video on the Nova3D website. After doing this the prints came off very easily without any damage.

I would suggest cleaning the build plate with isopropyl alcohol before pouring the hot water as doing so without this step left a grey residue that was annoying to clean off.

In Conclusion this is a solid resin at a really good price and will be my go to resin for terrain and objects printed directly from the build plate without supports. I would also be happy to use this for miniatures as long as I have time to examine the supports on the STL’s first.

My final rating is a solid 4 out of 5 stars.

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Tom_Edwards

Great resin for the Anycubic Photon

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 July 2020

Size Name: 500gColour Name: WhiteVerified Purchase

I wanted to try a new resin out so I ordered this after reading the reviews.

I'm really pleased with the quality it produced, as well as the low odor.

I've added some pictures of some recent prints. Here are my Citubox settings for the Nova resin (white):

Printer: Anycubic Photon (original)
Layer: 0.05
Exposure time: 9.5 seconds
Bottom layer: 7
Bottom exposure time: 70 seconds
Lift speed: 30mm/min - seems to help with vat pressure and supports not snapping.

I'd definitely recommend this resin.

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