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If you want more beginner friendly I would look into something like the Bambu Labs A1. SLA would be better for figurines but they are more involved. a standard 3d printer may be easier to get started with. I would look at videos and decide what works best for you and what  you feel comfortable with. There are a bunch of basic ones in that price range. I have an old creality ender 3 that I started with and always had some issues with but it was an early one. Last week I decided to get back into 3d printing and bought a creality k1c and had issues with it within the first week and decided to pull the trigger on a Bambu Labs x1 Carbon with ams. Granted the x1 cost twice what the k1c cost and many times more than the ender 3 but so far I am much more impressed with the bambu and have seen excellent reviews for the a1 and it can support multi filament printing down the road if you decide to. I would look at some youtube videos that do some comparisons and check out reddit for peoples view on them. But so far I am thrilled with my Bambu, I wasn't thrilled with my ender and the k1c made me swear off creality ever again. 

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For figurines, I would recommend looking into SLA 3D printers, such as the Mars 3 pro or Anycubic Photon Mono 2.

 

https://www.elegoo.com/products/elegoo-mars-3-pro-4k-mono-lcd-3d-printer

https://store.anycubic.com/products/photon-mono-2-3d-printer

 

Keep in mind, SLA printing gets you better details for figurines compared to FDM (your ender 3's of the world) but there's more post work including cleaning and curing, which requires more PPE, hardware and time. Not to mention ventilation.

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If you want more beginner friendly I would look into something like the Bambu Labs A1. SLA would be better for figurines but they are more involved. a standard 3d printer may be easier to get started with. I would look at videos and decide what works best for you and what  you feel comfortable with. There are a bunch of basic ones in that price range. I have an old creality ender 3 that I started with and always had some issues with but it was an early one. Last week I decided to get back into 3d printing and bought a creality k1c and had issues with it within the first week and decided to pull the trigger on a Bambu Labs x1 Carbon with ams. Granted the x1 cost twice what the k1c cost and many times more than the ender 3 but so far I am much more impressed with the bambu and have seen excellent reviews for the a1 and it can support multi filament printing down the road if you decide to. I would look at some youtube videos that do some comparisons and check out reddit for peoples view on them. But so far I am thrilled with my Bambu, I wasn't thrilled with my ender and the k1c made me swear off creality ever again. 

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4 hours ago, voyager_ said:

If you want more beginner friendly I would look into something like the Bambu Labs A1. SLA would be better for figurines but they are more involved. a standard 3d printer may be easier to get started with. I would look at videos and decide what works best for you and what  you feel comfortable with. There are a bunch of basic ones in that price range. I have an old creality ender 3 that I started with and always had some issues with but it was an early one. Last week I decided to get back into 3d printing and bought a creality k1c and had issues with it within the first week and decided to pull the trigger on a Bambu Labs x1 Carbon with ams. Granted the x1 cost twice what the k1c cost and many times more than the ender 3 but so far I am much more impressed with the bambu and have seen excellent reviews for the a1 and it can support multi filament printing down the road if you decide to. I would look at some youtube videos that do some comparisons and check out reddit for peoples view on them. But so far I am thrilled with my Bambu, I wasn't thrilled with my ender and the k1c made me swear off creality ever again. 

the a1 looks convincing, what is the difference between the A1 Combo and the regular A1, just the multi filament holder thingy ?

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