Formlabs[Creator Tough] ABS-Like 3D Printer Resin 405nm UV-Curing Non-Brittle High Precision Made in USA ACMO-Free 3D Printing Liquid Standard Photopolymer Resin for LCD DLP 3D Printing (Grey, 1000g)

I honestly had no expectations when I bought my first bottle of this resin beyond 'I don't want to smell it. Pleaaaaaseee don't let me smell it' Well, my expectations, hopes, and dreams didn't come 100% true: this stuff has an odor, but it is incredibly mild and didn't irritate me when I caught a whiff of it when I opened my enclosure.What did come true is I found a resin that I've found overall very reliable, capable of doing great and gorgeous detail, and I didn't have to muck around with to get some truly great prints! I figured I would have to spend hours doing resin calibrations and what have you like I had before - NOPE. I just went to the link Form Labs provided, downloaded the Elegoo Saturn 3 Reliable profile (I haven't had the heart to try the Fast profile yet), uploaded it into Chitubox, and sent a print to my Saturn 4 Ultra 12k. The result? See the picture with the mailbox moogle. In fact, zoom in on it if you can to see the ickle details. First time using the resin and the print came out positively detailed and gorgeous.With the pre-set, I will profess right now - every failed print I've had so far using this resin is 100% because of my inexperience at chitubox build plate positioning/supporting of the model, or there was an inherit flaw in the stl file I downloaded. I've gone through about 6 bottles of this resin and have made many lovely models and prints (like the bee plaque) to give out as presents. It's done wonders on small scale prints to large scale prints (see the bird riders) - the level of detail has stayed consistent from small to large with this resin. I've also printed out larger models needing to be cobbled together just fine. A word of warning: I had difficulties print failure with hollowing out larger models, but I believe that is a Me problem and not this resin. The only other con present is touched on - the longer print time (ETA of 6 hours will be about 8-9 hours in truth). I do feel this con is overwhelmingly curb stomped by the sheer reliability of this resin and I'm more than willing to be patient for the good results I've been getting.Cleanup wise, it's on par with every other resin - just follow the washing and curing times and everything goes well. I haven't had any issues to date with models warping or cracking during curing. Leaving models in IPA for long periods of times did not introduce any notable flaws in details and such (I forgot to remove the models from the IPA wash station one night and came back after 8 odd hours). The flexibility shown in the advertisements is absolutely no joke and saved my prints a few times when removing supports - the thinner parts merely bent when I tried to remove supports in a dumb fashion instead of snapping. This does translate to needing to be Gentle with the model pre-curing, I feel its a bit easier to scratch/marr the model surface than the prior resin I had used. Post curing, the models are solid as can be and I've knocked them about them and off the workbench a few times on accident (curse these elbows!). They did not, unfortunately, survive UPS shipping. I blame my fledgling efforts at packing the models safely and correctly. It couldn't have been the rough handling and the box arriving visibly half smashed during shipping, no sir!in regards to priming/painting, as can be seen in pictures, priming and painting are more than fine and stuck well as can be seen with the zenithal priming on the rider and gunner and the quick and dirty contrast paint job I did on the gunner afterward. I have not had an issue breaking off thinner pieces during painting as I did with prior resins.Long review short: Is it worth it? Yes. Yes, I believe it is and I will continue using it for the foreseeable future. I will be trying out their clear resin with dyes next to see what's what for mother's day - got me some flowers to print.

The media could not be loaded. I’m almost done with my first full bottle of this stuff and have to say I’m really happy formlabs is making hobbyist resin now. It’s not that it’s the “best of the best” in any one category, but it’s really really good across the board in many categories. There’s little to no smell unless your face is literally inside the printer, the details look crispy, print settings work, made in the us, and the parts have really good flex. Some things I do need to call out:The flex is good but only really on thin parts, like the hair pieces. thicker parts don’t have much bend and will break if bent too far. the busts obviously don’t flex because they’re too thick but have survived a few drops, which is what I’d expect based on the marketing and TDS info. for my figurines the properties are perfectOne other thing is don’t use your standard resin settings!!! for whatever reason the settings formlabs made are very different than what I’m used to - the normal exposure is like 7 seconds and the lift and retract speeds are really fast, which do help speed up print times so I’m not complaining there. if you use a more standard exposure your prints will fail, so don’t do what I did lol. once I used the settings from their website things worked fine though so FYI. formlabs did actually send me an automated email after I got the resin that said to use their settingsthe Ekko bust shows off the details the best - the smooth parts are super smooth and the textured parts of his hair and collar look really crispy. the price is a little high but I was already paying this much for the phrozen aqua grey. would love if it was a little cheaper but sometimes you get what you pay for

I saw this resin and as it had a good price I decided to take a chance on it. I'm very disappointed and regret trying it.It is packaged well and the bottle is sealed and of a good quality to keep light exposure away from it. The first thing you will notice is that they claim this is low odor and that is patently false. This is some of the worst smelling resins I've owned and it quickly fills your room with its odor. Don't believe them for a second that it is low odor. Not that low odor really means anything as even truly low odor resins put off tons of VOCs.It is a very liquid resin which means it flows well. However despite it being so liquid this resin was a bear to dial in. You can expect to print with at least 30% higher exposure times than you do with other tough or ABS-like resins. Even dialing your settings up will require heavier supports than you would normally use. I thought I had dialed it in with some test files, like my favorite the Amerilabs Town, only to run some prints and they all failed. This resin is just a bear. I found that with smaller models you can get good prints if the models are about 30mm or shorter. As files get bigger the resin gets more and more unreliable and unpredictable. I had bizarre failures like the torso splitting apart on a model only to pick up and reattach at the shoulders. Or getting a triangle shaped divot in middle of a diagonal flat surface where there wasn't any supports. I would have models mostly print, with an arm or something pancaking, then I'd adjust some supports or add some, then on the reprint, the entire model would pull off the supports. It was highly frustrating.I finally was able to get the resin to print, but the details ended up being a little soft as the exposure time was so high. Also as you need heavier supports you are likely to have a lot more big ugly support scars. It does seem to be stronger and more flexible than standard resin at least.I'm all around disappointed in this resin. If this is more difficult to print with because of the lack of ACMO, I'll gladly use other resins that contains it. While I got it for a low price, it ended up being more expensive per successful print due to the issues I had getting it to work and all the wasted resin. I've run seven full build plates on it and I have 15 successfully printed small sized (Goblins and Halflings) miniatures and one medium sized miniature to show for my effort. If I were running these prints with my other ABS-like and tough resins, I would have around 100 successfully printed minis right now and I would have resin remaining. At current prices that means my successful prints are costing $2 per mini with this. Using one of my other preferred resins, a resin which is twice the price of this resin, I would be spending about $0.30, or thirty cents per mini.If you want to waist your time and effort with this resin, go for it. I'd steer clear of it and go for another brand. Now it will print smaller miniatures more reliably, so perhaps just limit your prints with it to small and medium sized miniatures and you may have better luck with it. Ultimately, there are a lot better ones out there which will give you a whole lot fewer problems.Last update. I've run or attempted to run 12 prints using this resin and it just never gets stable and reliable. I would print something and a part of the mini would fail. I'd make adjustments like heavier and more supports, longer exposures, and slower lift speed, and reprint only to have a portion of the mini that was successful previously, now fail. It's a game of whack-a-mole putting out fires trying to get things to print. I ultimately got usable prints, but not amazing prints and not without tons of frustration. I've used a lot of resins over the years having run at least 150 prints through my printers over the past 5 years. This is hands down the worst resin I've ever used and I've used some poor resins. I made the stupid decision of buying two bottles of it so now I am left wondering if the frustration is worth trying to use this second bottle.