hey guys what's up welcome back to the channel my name is Frank and you're here because you want to start 3D printing some pretty cool stuff for whatever reason you're trying to get into the cosplay scene and you want to start 3D printing some of your own armor pieces maybe even your full Iron Man suits or some really awesome Swords and props whatever your motivation may be in this video I want to take you through a couple options and new 3D printers on the market to help you reach that goal let's take a look [Music]
[Music] now guys I'm serious it doesn't matter why you're here maybe you're looking to just start 3D printing some helmets and you want to stop cutting them up there are a lot of small printers on the market like the Ender threes and all of that but printing full-size helmets can be a little bit daunting on that so maybe you're in the market for a larger printer maybe you saw some of these sweet Iron Man suits online or you saw somebody's awesome mule linear armor from Halo and you want to get into full-scale armor building by
using a 3D printer or you just want to make really big obnoxious things and you just don't want to chop this up into a billion pieces now unfortunately the only technology advancing faster than 3D printers right now is probably graphics cards so every couple months there seems to be just a new printer something new and hot on the Block and it's hard to keep up but that's enough rambling you're not here to look at my girl's face you want to look at some 3D printers okay before we start there are some printers I'm not going
to talk about because they really don't apply to getting into larger prints and cosplay the standard Ender three size printers that's about a 235 by 235 by like 250 millimeter bed it's not really a big build surface and it doesn't apply to this type of stuff yes you can use these print players to print stuff like Iron Man suits or full-scale props but as you guys probably already know you're gonna have to cut them up a lot more so I'm not going to be talking about the bamboos and the anchor makes and the you know
the smaller printers we're going to kind of leave those maybe for another video and I have a lot of opinions about the bamboo p1p I got one downstairs it's awesome but to a fault so we're just gonna Breeze right past these smaller scale printers and move on to something like the solo sv01 Pro now this printer kind of sits in its own weird little category actually I need that um yeah so while these small printers are you know like that's the size of my hands and yes you can fit some helmets on a printer like
this but it's really tricky like if I was to play my cards just right with scaling I might be able to get a helmet on there but we don't want to have to cut Corners like that the silvo sv01 pro has a slightly bigger build volume than these smaller standard desktop burners it still feels like it's under three size but the build volume is just oh so much bigger and it gives you just a little bit more wiggle room and a lot more height as opposed to those other printers to start printing larger stuff in
one one piece a printer like this can fit the Red Hood helmet just fine and this is a hundred percent scale and trust me I have a big head and I can print this in one shot on this thing why is everything falling apart on me I swear I know what I'm doing now while you typically don't print Iron Man helmets in one full shot I mean it's about the same size as that red hood helmet you definitely have some playroom there as for certain armor pieces like you're not gonna be able to do full
chest plates and full thighs and legs on this but this is definitely a good starter it's around the same price point as those smaller printers as it is and it comes with a lot of awesome features and it's going to put you in the right direction but enough about the small boring wheat crud we're not worried about this we want bigger printers than this enter the elugu Neptune 3 plus this is the new kid on the block elugu has attacked fdm printing again and they have come out on top this thing is absolute Behemoth and
this isn't even the biggest one they offer so if you guys have spent any time doing some research prior to this you might have already seen the elugu Neptune 3 line pop up this is the standard lugu Neptune 3. it's new it's great but again it's tiny so we're not going to worry about this guy this is the elugu Neptune 3 plus and right now currently it is my go-to recommendation for getting into cosplay and armor building previously I really like the creality cr-10s Pro V2 I've talked about it in length on multiple videos however
they are very hard to come by now creality is basically discontinued making them so now we have to find something new well eligu very much paid attention to this and they took all the features that made these printers popular um you know it's Auto bed leveling and Pei sheets and bracing and just a bigger build volume and they threw it into one printer and kept it under 400 the pro V2s are almost 500 most of the time and you can't even get those right now now as of making this video you also can't really get
this printer it sold out so fast I don't think eligue was ready for the reception that these printers got but they are definitely no on the market they're definitely going to be coming back in stock so if you are looking to get into this this is absolutely a printer you want to try to get your hands on assembly takes a couple minutes it has a massive build volume like I said it has all the features you're looking for they didn't cram a bunch of stuff in this that you don't need or is confusing to use
it has a nice touchscreen interface it doesn't have a big you know footprint even though it has a big build volume and it's already been printing some really awesome armor pieces for me in great quality so let's take a look at the size of this compared to those really small Ender three size printers not bad this gives you a lot more playroom you can start fitting some pretty large armor pieces on this and it's taller than most printers in this area and price range it also comes equipped already with a direct drive extruder so if
you want to start printing flexible materials TPU flexible pla stuff like that it's already ready to go now if you're inpatient and you can't find this on the market if they're still hard to come by there is an alternative for just a little bit more money this is the Ender 3 Max knee yo now the under three max definitely put a good dent in the market for just wanting a very simple larger format printer even though it kind of pushed out some of its own like lines like I don't know what reality was thinking with
this but it was a good addition to the market and it was a lot cheaper than some of the larger format printers now there's the Ender 3 Max there's the Ender 3 Max Neo there's probably another one by the time this video even posted but this is about the same size as the Lagoon Neptune 3 plus and it gives you pretty much the same features one of the main differences however is this is a Bowden tube style setup personally I don't care about either of them direct drive bone into they both print and they're both
good printers but if you're really really stuck on getting something with a direct drive there is this option you'll just have to find it it doesn't have a Pei Spring Sheet it has a glass bed this Ultra based glass bed but once you get this bed like dialed in with the filament it sticks super super well my only complaint about this printer is that while it's printing the um the main fan is a little bit louder than I probably would like I can hear it in other rooms where something like the elugu is a lot
quieter but respectively speaking they're both very quiet printers that is just a standard in 3D printing now your printer should be quiet um looking at you anchor make both of these printers have about the same build size volume I can do a full Doctor Fate helmet at 105 on this printer and I can do some pretty tall straight you know sword or whatever cosplay prop prints on this thing having this much height in a printer like this definitely unlocks a lot more possibilities you can start doing really big armor pieces shoulder pads forearms it's not
quite big enough to do a whole Shin or thigh piece in one one shot but it's still pretty good so if you can't find the Neptune 3 plus definitely look into the Ender 3 Max Neo it is a great option a good build volume and they're more readily available than I think the plus right now okay so we're down in my temporary print room because there is no way I am bringing both of these printers upstairs this is where they're going to live until the garage Renovations are done so I have behind me two pretty
cool printers I have the elugu Neptune 3 Max yes there's a Max version there's a pro version a plus version of the max version it's like they paid attention to the market and hit all three things people were asking for would be great if some other companies started to do that and sitting next to it is kind of its older brother that's more expensive this is the creality cr10 max and it is probably still to date one of the largest best printers on the market sitting down here I actually have a cr-10 S4 I did
have a cr-10 S5 and they both can be a little tricky to use and they're still both really expensive to buy but the creality cr10 max hit all those points it had a nice textured bed and a BL touch a self leveling and all of that had braces it was a really good printer but being it almost still a thousand dollars and like the creality cr-10s Pro V2 oh my God so many names they are hard to find I've been trying to find a second or third one to add to my print Fleet for quite
a while but they're nearly Untouchable I think Ella do saw a gap in that market as well and that's why they put out the max version of the Neptune 3. the Neptune 3 Max is 420 by 420 by 500 where the cr-10 max is 450 by 450 by 470. so on the three max you're losing 30 millimeters on your X and Y but your game gaining 30 back on your z-axis now I don't have any really large One-Shot prints for my cr-10 Max that I could bring down here and show you they're all parts of
my Ironman suit up there but both of these parts were printed on the Neptune 3 Max being able to do whole armor parts like full chest plates or back plates and one shot is awesome however it does come with a price this print took almost five days and this one took more than five days just because you can print big doesn't mean you always want to while being able to do this is awesome these printers were tied up for almost five days and trust me I know how to adjust settings and quality and support and
all of that and I tried to mitigate it as much as possible I would not recommend either of these printers as your first printer I really wouldn't even recommend them as your second printer you're going to want to get something small like the Ender series or the Neptune series a small printer to get your feet wet start printing tiny stuff then you get a second larger printer you get the Pro V2 you get the solo sv01 Pro you get something a little bit bigger and then when you really want to take the dive and you
fully understand how a print big then you get one of these printers I couldn't imagine having started off with one of these behemoths and having to wait days for a big print to finish yes you can print small on them that's great but now you're grossly under utilizing the capabilities of this printer and no I'm not going to go and print a a set of fingers or Gauntlet on this massive printer that's just gonna take forever and it's just wasting its potential though I was able to do this entire back plate no matter how I
sliced it it still used a butt load of support material I was able to get it just over one whole uh roll of filament which was fantastic and there wasn't too much support ways but a lot of the print time was just in supports whereas if I had just cut this back plate in the four sections and put it on a smaller printer it would have used nearly no supports so you're training that time and the money invested into the printer with post processing then I'd have to weld the back plate back together fuse it
sand it do all that fun stuff but you really need to weigh those costs are you do you want to have a printer that's this big sitting around that's only really getting utilized occasionally or you just do you want a couple smaller printers and you'll have to cut up your models it's not a big deal so definitely consider these things when looking into these massive printers what is amazing about this printer is it's under 500 I think it's 470 bucks right now as a comparison here's that original Ender 3 build plate volume versus what the
uh the nep23 Max has to offer and this other plate sitting behind the Neptune 3 Max bed this is the cr-10 max bet I have a I have a flex sheet for it I just never put it on so you can see you're not losing too much build volume feature wise the 3 Max is just the three plus but bigger it still has the flex plate it still has a run out sensor direct drive rear Z bracing it's a quiet printer has some cool LEDs up top so you can watch your print when it's dark
out it's just an all-around good package so if you're looking to move to the next step of really big volume printing this Neptune 3 Max is just it's a deal right now that cannot be beat now there's one more printer I do want to talk about but it's a very Niche printer and it's a little pricey this right here is the creality cr30 conveyor belt printer it literally prints infinitely long along I believe this is the y-axis on a conveyor belt now this 3D printer was originally designed for repetition I want to print a benchy
a thousand times in a row I don't know why you would ever want to do that I'm not one to judge you you do you but theoretically you can send the file and it prints it prints a benchy moves the conveyor belt prints a benchy and then eventually you just put a little box right at the end and you just have infinite benches or whatever the heck you want to print now in the cosplay and prop Community a lot of people saw this printer and saw a great way to abuse it by just printing things
really long in one shot as the part gets to the end of the conveyor belt it just moves off and as long as you have a way to support it and depending on how long it is you really don't even need support it'll just keep going forever if you've ever tried to 3D print a really big sword or prop you know you're gonna have to weld the parts together now sometimes there's pros and cons to this for strength reinforcement and positioning and layer adhesion and all that but if I had printed this sword on this
belt printer I could have done it in theoretically one piece but I probably would have done it in two and it would have been able to print the entire thing in one long shot now again this is a really Niche specific thing for a thousand dollar printer so it's not going to be in everybody's price range or budget this is absolutely not somebody's first printer like I was talking about with the Max's downstairs this is like your third fourth heck this was like my 20th printer and I still had problems with it because it's a
really specific Niche thing creology didn't put a lot of work into this thing and the aftermarket Fords died there are a couple knockoffs and a couple other variations and there are good Facebook groups to help you dial this thing in but it is not as commonly used as something like an ender 3. I just recently learned that there were a couple runs of this where I got one of the original runs with a a really nice bed belt on it that was really sticky but apparently some of the newer versions had a a film or
grease on them so Prince just refused to stick I just saw somebody on Instagram he had to sand the belt down and get all those oils off in order to get it to adhere this is a sheath to a katana that's in one piece I was able to print this in one solid piece well okay I printed it in two pieces I cut it down like this put them flat printed them fused them together but like this is one solid part the same with this katana blade this is just one long shot I didn't need
to weld anything this is awesome while you can definitely make swords and props look like one piece after you've welded them it would have been much better to just go in one shot this another small con of this printer is you do have to reconsider how you slice files support placement overhang angles are drastically altered when dealing with this printer because it's not printing at you know up top and bottom it's putting at a 45 degree angle so you really have to rethink about how you put files onto the bed but unlike the cr-10 max
or the Neptune 3 Max you can use this for small prints you don't need to use it as a conveyor belt all the time it's just a printer so if you just need to print something and the supports allow it you can just throw a print on this and call it a day it is a slow printer and it does have a rather large build volume if you're going to be using it for something like that but you can mount them on the walls Pooch over at repcord has a bunch of these on his wall
hopefully there's a picture here that I was able to find and they just print stuff and it falls into a box it's really cool the only way I would recommend this printer to somebody is if you know you're going to be using it and you have experienced troubleshooting your 3D printer and you know how to level a bed and you understand what's going on here and what a good first layer looks like because trust me this thing was not easy to get running but now that it's running I have great plans for it now before
we wrap this video up I totally understand that there are a lot more 3D printers on the market but I promise you I am in the Facebook groups I'm on Discord I'm on YouTube and I'm paying attention to the printers people having success with there's printers like the any cubic Cobra Max which has been good for a lot of people and even I recommended it in another video and while it's good I just like the Neptune 3 plus better so please remember take everything I say with a grain of salt do more research on these
printers and see if they're a good fit for you but I can only go off of the experiences I had and I've had some pretty good experiences with these printers this is by no means a perfect Hobby and there is a learning curve there are going to be frustrations and especially when you start printing really big stuff the level of failure does go up so just remember to breathe relax check the Facebook groups check Discord ask for help because this community is wonderful and lastly if you guys have any comments questions concerns about anything you
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just I love it all but that's enough of me rambling as always thank you so much for watching guys you have a good day [Music] who says pla isn't flexible foreign
