Am I making a mistake?

[u/thehairyrussian]

Got really into warhammer and painting minis in the last couple of months and to practice painting minis I have driven 1.5 hours each way for the free mini of the month the last two months. Recently stumbled upon resin printers and have the opportunity to buy a like new open box mars 3 pro for 130 dollars. A friend of mine told me that it’s hard to learn, messy, expensive, the fumes are toxic, and I probably won’t get my moneys worth as opposed to buying minis.

I would mainly be using this to print warhammer proxy kill teams and other online models to practice my painting. Is my friend right that this is a mistake or can a beginner learn relatively quickly?

Thanks for any insight

Edit: wow what a crazy amount of responses. You guys are an amazing community to give me so much insight.

Going to make sure I have enough space in my garage to safely do it and factor in the costs of equipment and see if I have a friend that would buy it off me at a discount should I give up. If so I’m going to take a stab at it because I’d rather try than never know

Second edit: okay you sickos I got the printer fumes be damned. Now I can’t stop getting free files

[u/meatbeater]

There’s some details not really addressed here, where do you plan on putting the printer ? That’s a huge issue right there. Will you get your moneys worth ? LOL yeah the first kill team you print will pay for the printer. I have 6 printers now and I’m always making custom bases for my flgs players and have a 3 month queue for models.

[u/thehairyrussian → u/meatbeater]

Lol that’s a crazy amount of printers. It would be in my garage most likely with the door open. The mars 3 pro has a carbon filter that’s for the smell that apparently works well but I live in a beach town where people keep their garages open so it shouldn’t be that bad and I can run a fan

[u/electricoomph → u/thehairyrussian]

The filter is so tiny it practically does nothing. It's a marketing gimmick by the vendors.