RepRapper Silver MetalShift 3D Printer Resin, 405nm Fast UV-Curing Standard Photopolymer 3D Printing Resin with Metallic Shine for LCD Printer, Argent Aura 1000g

To be honest, I expected some limited flexibility in this resin, as the photos don't really showcase it (I've never worked with Shore 80 material, and the information I found online was limited as well). However, this material is very rubber-like and flexible, even after curing, which is exactly what I needed. I had to get another bottle before this stuff is gone. It's thicker than hard resins, but still workable. Cleanup is about the same, and I didn't have a particular problem with the odor.

I bought this stuff because I wanted to 3D print a rail adapter for the Cybergun FAMAS AEG Airsoft Rifle. I didn't want to print using my FDM printers and it gave me a good excuse to buy a bottle of ABS resin. I got black and honestly, there's something about pouring a pitch black liquid from a red biohazard-esque container that's double sealed that unnerves me.Anyways, the rail adapter came out perfectly first try, guessing the settings using past experiences and it worked like a charm. I even stress-tested it by slamming it around violently and trying to break it in half. I'm sure I could break it if I really, really wanted to. But it'll handle wear and tear nicely.So then the bottle sat in my resin cupboard for awhile. I had no other use for it. I was using plant based, water washable resin to print miniatures for Warhammer and D&D. And sometimes while I'm working with those delicate fragile mini's, my hands decide to stop working and just let go of whatever they're holding. Which equals, broken mini usually. Now, fixing them is pretty easy, I've gotten used to gluing tiny gun barrel tips back into place. But what if, that didn't happen anymore when something gets dropped?In comes this resin again. I was skeptical about it's ability to print hyper fine details. But on my Elegoo Saturn at .03mm it did not disappoint at all! The print quality is awesome. And the models also have this cool bit of transparency on the thinner areas. Not that you'd see it once it's all painted up. Still a cool look when they get all nice and cleaned up. The test model I printed, which is a 40K mini, I put through a similar stress test. Throwing it, dropping it, tossing it. And it wasn't until I really gave it a good throw that a little piece of his weapon broke off. Granted, I pitched that poor Marine like a baseball.Overall, I love this stuff! And I'll definitely be picking up another bottle soon once this one runs out!

Bought Metallic brass. Three stars for the resin, one extra star for the thoughtful pour spout and reasonable price. As mentioned by others, it's brittle. Cleanup is a little more than normal because of the metallic particles, but not too bad. Once you've got it sticking to the build plate, removing the item form the supports is easy, but removing what's stuck to the plate takes muscle and scraping it off makes lots of little plastic shards- remember your eye protection, they fly everywhere. The color is more of a dull brass, not a yellowy gold color of highly polished brass. Not a bad thing, but the pics look a little more gold than the product turns out.Wish it had a little more flexibility for durability's sake, and wish Reprapper had an .stl available to print a funnel to fit their bottles like many other companies do. All in all, more happy than unhappy but wouldn't buy again unless printing x-mas tree ornaments or other purely decorative items.

I decided to try this resin based on the photo. To be fair, I have an old EPAX X1 printer with the LED modification kit. Using the setting that were recommended, I couldn't get a good print. The resin did not cure enough so the supports were tearing out and the base layers did not adhere well. With longer cure times the model was very brittle. After some trial and error, I was able to get a finished print, but there were still some lines in the model. I ended up adding a little Syria Tech Blue resin to reduce the brittleness.Note that I had printed the model with other resins without an issue. I think the flake in the resin makes it difficult to print models with fine details.The color is interesting, especially if viewed from the side of the model that was parallel to the plate, as the resin manufacturer recommended. There is a shimmering effect with the colors shifting as the model is moved around. Looking a the model from the other angles isn't quite as interesting. more of a solid blue with some sparkles in it.Filtering the resin after use was difficult as the flakes clogged up the fine mesh of the filter. After the failed prints I like to filter the resin to make sure no small pieces a floating around that could crack the LCD.Overall, for certain types of prints that will mostly be view from the sides parallel to the plate, this resin produces a cool effect that would be difficult to mimic with paint. However, for a figurine the result isn't worth the difficulty of getting a good print.