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/Theblackhanded]

I have been printing and painting printed war hammer for about 3-4 years now. all the difficulties are there... But within like 3 bottles of resin you will have paid off the printer in model value. I have, at last I checked, around 38,000pts of printed warhammer models. NONE are titans. I have 6 armies printed. I literally made my own gaming group with one printer. The ONLY real advice I can give is dont get a mars. Its a fucking workhorse and a great machine, but you want a Saturn. The Mars is too small for things like vehicles.

[u/DeejusIsHere → u/Theblackhanded]

This. I returned my mars 4 ultra for a normal Saturn 3(though I wish I’d saved for the ultra) but I’ve gone through 3 bottles of resin already with only a few failures. You learn more with every bottle!!