A number of years ago I bought a resin 3d printer.
I'm still not a massive fan of the FDM variety of 3d printers. Though that might be because I still have a relatively crude, early model XY affair and getting the initial layers printing consistently well feels like a full-time hobby in itself.
But resin printing is a whole other story.
Yes, you've got to support and check and fix your build plate. But then you send it to the printer, hit "go" and after about 3 hours, you've a plateful (anywhere between eight and ten) brand-new, awesome miniatures for your chosen tabletop game.
Over the years, I've amassed a huge collection of STL files for printing tabletop miniatures.
And every now and again, just print a few for the sake of keeping the printer from "seizing up" (or whatever other reason these things go wrong if left unused for any great length of time).
My first resin printer was an Anycubic Photon (which I loved) but a few years ago, I picked up a Mono 4K. It's an amazing little machine - cheap as chips and super-reliable.
So now I've quite a collection of little grey models.
And since slap-chop and speed paints became "a thing" a while ago, sometimes I'll paint a few minis up for no other reason than to have some quality "down time" away from the computer screen.
I might even post a few on here, periodically.
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