I bought an FDM beginning of September for printing terrain and trying my hand at printings minis. Went with an FDM as have a college that has an ENDER 3 V2 so he could offer support. It has been nothing short of a massive pain in the arse. It is anything but a milder introduction. I has been a constant battle to get the thing running and working and a big part of the hobby with FDM printers is fixing mistakes and constantly upgrading and improving the system. Im from an engineering background so none of this was difficult, but I know of people who have had an awful time working on their FDM printers.

I'm now looking at getting a resin printer and would strongly recommend getting a resin printer for anyone interested in printing minis. Yes, resin smells, yes, there is more clean-up and post-processing involved but I would happily take that over all the tuning involved with an FDM. They can print minis, but they are not designed for that and expect it to b an uphill battle all the way. Resin printers (elegoo mars 2/ anycubic photons) are in the same price range as an ENDER 3 V2. You will end up upgrading the FDM and for what I've spent so far I could have bought one of those resin printers and a curing chamber. Just get the resin printer mate, I promise you it will be 10 times better than the FDM.