The Fat Dragon Guide To Printing FDM Miniatures
The Fat Dragon Guide To Printing FDM Miniatures is a 24-page technical guide written by Tom Tullis of Fat Dragon Games.
- Product type
- 3D Printing
Product overview
Distilling years of hands-on experience in 3D tabletop terrain and miniature production, the booklet delivers professional troubleshooting advice, slicer optimization tips, printer tuning techniques, and comprehensive filament reviews tailored to achieving high-resolution miniature prints on standard FDM 3D printers. It explains exact machine preparation and print parameters developed specifically for FDG's miniature catalog.
FDM Slicing Techniques and Hardware Tuning
Author Tom Tullis shares practical methods developed during the creation of Fat Dragon Games' extensive miniature lines. The 24-page guide focuses on machine calibration, retraction tuning, layer height optimization, and nozzle management necessary to produce crisp tabletop figures on affordable filament printers.
Filament Benchmarks and Slicer Profiles
The text provides thorough material evaluations, comparing popular filament brands on print quality, brittleness, and detail retention. While dedicated slicer profile files for Bambu Studio and Cura are offered separately, the guide explains the underlying principles behind optimal support and cooling settings.
Questions & answers
Are slicer profile files included directly within this PDF?
The PDF contains 24 pages of written advice and filament reviews; custom slicer profile files for Bambu Studio and Cura are available as separate downloads.
Where can the guide and related 3D printing resources be downloaded?
GMCraft provides the product overview, while the PDF download and updates are managed directly on DriveThruRPG.