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RepRapper Metallic Resin has Beautiful Color and High Precision Printing Detail
Brigid Bertram
Reviewed in Germany on February 17, 2025
Schnelle Lieferung coole Flaschen aber noch nicht getestet wie es sich drucken lässt
Dan M
Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2025
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.
Three Toads in a pond
Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2025
Paid $6 for 1kg. Minis come out good but do have a failure rate of 40%. If you look close there are printing problems but at arms length away minis look pretty good.
NorthCoaster
Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2024
First yes, this review is from someone who was disappointed in the product and who rarely reviews products they were satisfied with.Here's what I didn't like about this "Silver Metalshift 3D Printer Resin"1) It truly is only metallic looking on surfaces parallel to the build plate. Otherwise it is a semi-clear gray color. If you are looking for a resin that will at least give you a head start in producing a metallic looking 3D print keep looking.2) it is extremely brittle. Sliced models that I have successfully printed many times in say, Phrozen Aqua 8k crash often in this resin, breaking free from the support structure.3) It is a PITA to clean out of the vat. Exposing the vat with the 15s cleaning cycle does not provide a "clean" film to peel off -- instead broken and irregular, depending, apparently, on where the metallic particles happened to be most dense. Cleaning the result out of the vat results in many large pieces of semi cured metallic shards that are.. just a pain to clean up. Something I'd be ok dealing with if the prints were any good.Bottom line: if you are making flat things like coins or shields and can orient your model to be parallel to the build plate, you may get good results. Otherwise, forget it.
Trevor Lea
Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2024
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.
The Knight Who Says Ni
Reviewed in Canada on November 3, 2024
Resin had a great metalic sheen. It printed well on a Galaxy 1, which is a tricky printer to dial in with new filament. A word or warning, this filament is on the brittle side to design your supports so that you have ample break-off room from your build plate. I would definitely purchase this product again.
Rin
Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2024
Easy AF to print if you follow the times on the bottle. Removing supports is easy AF, and easier to use than most other resins I have. Printing a Falin chimera BJD and used this for the dragon parts. Supports came off like a breeze! Going to use a pearlescent finishing spray on the pieces to get the best out of this metallic resin. Will say the IPA dulls the shine dramatically.
Crash
Reviewed in Canada on June 17, 2023
I have had 5 failed prints in a row. I put different resin in and it printed perfect.This stuff is no good.
Sean Thomas
Reviewed in Canada on July 3, 2022
Great print quality and crisp detail. Printed on my Elegoo Saturn at 2.5s and 35s for bottom layers. Little stronger smell than other resins i have tried but not overly strong. Clean up was easy with 90% ipa.When fully cured it is very strong.I will be buying more in the future highly recommend it.
Wayupnorth
Reviewed in Canada on December 31, 2022
I liked this resin for the detail it printed but found I needed to mix it with Tough resin to provide some flexibility or it was very brittle with some breakage during clean up and left larger than normal divots where the supports were placed on the models requiring more post processing than some of my other resins. The smell was a bit more than my normal resins and the solids seemed to precipitate out faster than usual collecting on my FEP and requiring careful stirring or draining. I did like that it did not seem be be as warp prone as some of my other resins I use so there is a trade off.But I will not likely buy this again due to the brittle nature and the way it leaves marks at the supports.
Justin
Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2021
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!
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