SUNLU ABS-Like Resin 3D Printer 1KG Grey, 405nm UV-Curing Photopolymer 3D Printer Resin for LCD/DLP/SLA 3D Printer, Enhanced Strength and Toughness & High Precision & Low Shrinkage, Grey 1000g

TL;DR: After years of frustration with mediocre, brittle, overpriced resins from every brand imaginable, I’ve finally found the one. Sunlu 14K ABS-Like Grey Resin is hands down the best resin I’ve ever used — incredible detail, reliable strength, easy clean-up, fast and painless calibration. The price might not be as ‘cheap’ as some sales you’ll see on Elegoo and Anycubic, but it’s worth every penny and then some. Stop wasting money on sub-par resins and grab this. You won’t regret it. Full Review: How do I even begin to explain just how good this resin is? I’ve been printing for a while now, and between owning two printers — the Elegoo Saturn 4 Ultra (fantastic machine) and the Anycubic M7 Pro (which, in my opinion, is utterly disappointing — do yourself a favour and stick with Elegoo) — I’ve easily spent hundreds, maybe even thousands, trying to find a resin that actually delivers on its promises. I’ve tested pretty much every brand you can name. Elegoo, Anycubic, Phrozen, Siraya, Nova3D, and even Sunlu’s own standard resin (which I absolutely do not recommend). Until now, everything has been a compromise — either the detail was muddy, the prints were brittle, calibration was a nightmare, or the clean-up was messy and tedious. Then, I finally gave Sunlu’s 14K ABS-Like Grey Resin a shot… and it’s been an absolute game-changer. The level of detail this resin captures is genuinely incredible. Every line, crease, and surface texture pops beautifully. The grey colour I bought is perfect — light enough to clearly see the details before priming but with enough contrast and shadow to spot imperfections. It’s ideal for inspecting miniatures, scale models, or prototypes before paint even touches them. Now, about the price. Let’s be honest — it’s not quite the bargain some people make it out to be. The issue is that, for the last 100 days or so, it’s held steady at its full price without any real sales. When you break it down per KG (since it’s sold in 3KG bottles), it doesn’t seem massively cheaper than other brands, especially when Elegoo and Anycubic run constant discounts. But here’s the thing — this resin is worth every single penny. In fact, it’s worth more than what it costs. One of the biggest selling points for me was how easy this resin was to calibrate. After just two plates worth of calibration prints, I was dialled in and ready to go. Compare that to the absolute nightmare I had with Elegoo’s ABS-Like 8K resin — which felt borderline impossible to get right — and this was a breath of fresh air. Clean-up is a dream as well. It has a lovely viscosity, not too thick, not too runny, and it doesn’t instantly cling to every surface it touches like some other resins. A simple wipe down and you’re done. No frustrating residue left behind, no endless isopropyl scrubbing. As for durability — my prints have been solid and reliable, no random splitting, cracking, or soft spots. They feel strong in hand and hold their detail beautifully even before curing. I’ve uploaded a bunch of pictures to show off the results, and I honestly wish I’d discovered this sooner instead of burning money on so many disappointing alternatives. I can’t speak to Sunlu’s customer service, and frankly, that’s probably a good thing. The nightmare experiences I’ve had with Elegoo and Anycubic’s convoluted, slow, and often unhelpful customer support teams have been enough for a lifetime. The fact I haven’t had to contact Sunlu at all speaks volumes about the quality and reliability of this resin. In short — this stuff is brilliant. Do yourself a favour and buy it. In fact, grab two of the 3KG bottles: one to start printing with now, and one to have ready for when you inevitably burn through the first bottle within a few days. I’ve found my new daily resin, and I’m not looking back. Thank you, Sunlu, for finally delivering the resin I’ve been chasing for years.

Just thought I would leave a review for this resin, after switching to it from a resin with similar purpose but much higher price. The other resin I was using (a roleplaying game resin from a very cold company) was supposed to be very flexible, and durable, and be easy to print with. Unfortunately in my experience none of these were quite true. Since this Sunlu resin was supposed to do the same sort of thing, in the same colour, with very similar density and viscosity properties etc as the other resin I'd tried, I expected a similarly difficult printing experience for a not very useful final product. However, I had heard very good things about this one, so I gave it a try. In short, all of my expectations have been exceeded, and for less than half the price of the previous resin I was using. I cannot recommend this highly enough. This will now be my main resin for all my projects until something else revolutionary comes out. Printer settings for context: Sunlu ABS-like resin, mixed 50:50 with Sunlu Toughness resin 12k Elegoo printer 0.03mm layer height 2.0s exposure time (maybe 2.05, can't remember, but around there) Mini heater maintaining a constant 28°C to ensure temperature is not an issue Printing 28mm miniatures for tabletop wargaming Ease of Printing ----- This resin is excellent to print with. So far I've gone through 2kg of this 50:50 ABS-Like/Toughness mix, and have had zero fails. None. No misprinted details either, no layer shifts, nothing. Amazing stuff. I'm churning through army projects and not having to stop to reprint 2 or 3 models per plate, like I was doing with the previous resin (and only that resin - my other resins have close to a 100% success rate too, but this Sunlu one is the only one that has a literal 100% success rate up to now, after 2kg of prints at that). This kind of success rate makes printing fun, because let's face it, the post-processing routine is lengthy and involves chemicals, so I only want to process as few prints as I can get away with. No failed prints means no extra plates to print or process, keeping everything moving, minimising the number of hours I spend suited up in PPE dunking prints in 99% IPA, waiting for them to dry, removing supports in hot water, waiting for them to dry again, curing them, etc. It all takes time, and this resin gives me confidence my time will be well-spent. This also lets me predict my projects' end dates ahead of time too, because I know there will be no (or very few) print failures to have to go back and print again. Very good printing experience. Post-processing experience ----- Please take my experience here with a grain of salt as I'm using a 50:50 mix of ABS-like and Toughness, and have never used them separately, so I don't know which resin is contributing which part to my experience here. With that said, my resin mix is quite viscous, which I believe is just how all flexible resins are. However, this does mean that a lot of uncured resin remains stuck on your prints after they've finished, even if you angle the build plate for the resin to drip back into the vat. For that reason, I wash this resin in 99% IPA in 3 stages: 1) get most of the gloopy resin off, 2) get the thin layer of resin underneath off, 3) final 'clean' wash to remove any last sticky bits in crevices. This works really well though, and this resin comes back with a lovely finish when all the IPA has evaporated off. Support removal is fine; again, the flexibility of the resin means the supports are a little more elastic than regular resins, meaning they're a little more grippy, but still easy enough to remove with some hot water. Very little support scarring too, sometimes it's not even visible, which is again great as it means no gap-filling or sanding after the models are cured. I cure it as Sunlu indicate; 5 minutes on my wash & cure turntable. Not in water - it seems fine to do this one without. You can feel the difference once they're cured, which is reassuring. All in all, easy to post-process. Resin properties ----- I got the dark grey colour, and of the various resins I've bought, this one is closest to the colour used by well-known plastic miniature manufacturers. It doesn't feel like they've just tried to copy the colour at the expense of other areas either; it's also a really nice finish, nice and matte but with a little sheen in some angles; not too transparent at the edges of details like some other resins; shows off details really really well. Really pleasing to look at - I'm very happy to spend time looking at this resin while building my minis. Again, please remember I'm using a 50:50 mix of Sunlu ABS-Like and Toughness resins, so am not sure which resin contributes which properties here - but it is an incredible resin for tabletop wargaming miniatures. Firstly, even after curing it feels kind of soft in the hand (as opposed to that rough brittle kind of feel other resins tend to have). One review I read of this resin said it's the first resin they've ever handled that feels like an injected thermoplastic, and I agree with them. It's still clearly resin when in your hand but just feels less so, somehow. Very pleasant to handle. I've even heard you can shave bits off this resin with a modelling knife, and drill into it with a pin vice - I've not tried these myself but having handled the resin, I believe both claims. It is also incredibly flexible, and bends rather than breaks. Again please bear in mind I mix with the Toughness resin, which is supposed to be the bendy one, so can't comment purely on ABS-like. However, my experience of the mix is great. Prior to this I used the widely-known Siraya Tech Fast/Tenacious mix - which was nice and strong, but even that would snap after bending a few degrees. With this Sunlu resin, after curing a sword I bent the blade back on itself, and braced myself for a snap, but it didn't snap. It kept going and going until the whole sword blade was folded in half. I then repositioned it back to being a straight blade. Then bent it in half the other way, and back! It finally snapped on the 3rd bend - but it was like the sword tore in two, as opposed to shattered into bits. I'm very very impressed. I've tried dropping a couple minis and they suffered no damage, but since I need them for my project I didn't drop them from too high! So maybe not the best test of durability I could have done. Conclusion ----- I've printed with 3 resins this year: 2kg of Siraya Tech Fast/Tenacious, 1kg of Phrozen RPG, and 2kg of Sunlu ABS-Like/Toughness. For my application of tabletop minis, the Sunlu resin blows the other two out of the water. The detail of the prints is excellent on all three, but in every other area the Sunlu pulls ahead: the finish of the resin looks way better than the Phrozen (which can look a bit gritty or chalky imo) and the Siraya Tech (which looks great apart from the heavy white pigment they use to give it its matte look, that ends up sometimes settling in some recesses). The flexibility is better with Sunlu than either other resin. The durability is better with Sunlu than either other resin. My ratio of print successes is literally 100% with the Sunlu, 99% with the Siraya Tech, and nowhere near with the Phrozen. It's incredibly easy to work with too. And reasonable curing times (5 minutes according to Sunlu*), as opposed to the Phrozen for example (which requires 30 minutes according to Phrozen*). *Please check these curing times for yourself, in case they have been updated since this review. Oh, and lastly - I haven't mentioned the price. This resin is cheaper than either other I've used. The Siraya Tech fast/tenacious mix is almost twice as expensive as this Sunlu resin, and the Phrozen RPG is more than 3x the cost of this Sunlu resin - and in my experience the Sunlu did a much better job! I don't know how they produce this resin so cheap, but in my opinion price has no impact on quality here. I think the most important thing for me is that this resin gives me confidence that the hours I'm going to spend painting my minis probably won't be wasted due to the resin breaking while I'm holding the minis to paint them, or if I lend them to my friends to play a game of battle mallet together. I was prepared to pay good money for that kind of peace of mind, but it turns out I didn't even have to. All in all, this is now my go-to resin for minis, and will be until something truly game-changing is released. I was sceptical of all the glowing comments and reviews I read online about the Sunlu resin, yet now here I am writing one myself. Very pleased.

SUNLU produces great quality UV resin for my printers. Been using them for a while and the ABS like is a nice price with some extra rigidity. If intending to print miniatures some parts can still be fragile, but less so than with a standard resin. As usual cleans well with IPA, prints at decents speeds and exposure times. Nothing special, just a decent quality everyday resin to print with.

Great stuff. Had flawless prints with this and no issues with fine detail snapping as it flexs well. Perfect for minis with long weapons.

I’ve run this SUNLU ABS-like resin through a few different LCD printers now, and it’s consistently impressive. The detail resolution is sharp—even on complex miniatures and mechanical parts—and the low shrinkage means dimensional accuracy is spot-on. It cures fast under 405nm UV, and I haven’t had any warping or brittleness issues. The “Grey Clear” tone is subtle and versatile—great for both prototyping and final presentation. It sands well, takes paint evenly, and doesn’t leave that chalky residue some cheaper resins do. If you’re printing anything that demands precision and durability—especially functional components or display models—this resin is a reliable choice. I’ll be keeping it in rotation for sure.

Cheap but effective, with a neutral colour great for painting, durable for use in printing table top miniatures that see moderate use.

Good resin- delivered on time. I only use this resin. Zero failures in 4 years of printing with this resin

My go to resin now for Wargame miniature printing. Holds detail really well and it's flexibility and strength is fantastic

My go-to resin for my company. It performs exceptionally well for tabletop miniatures as well as larger prints like giants, monsters, and vehicles. Warping is minimal (around 95% success rate), and the odor is very mild compared to many other resins — especially Elegoo 8K Standard, which is by far the worst-smelling resin I’ve used. I would easily give this resin 5 out of 5 stars, with one small caveat: after curing, the prints are about as brittle as standard resin. This is not an issue before curing, however — the resin is very flexible at that stage, making support removal effortless. Supports peel off cleanly, and prints never break during cleanup. Just keep in mind that this flexibility is before the final cure.

I’m new to 3d printing, I have a Saturn 8k printer which has the build plate capacity for some larger scale table top miniature creatures and terrain. After a week of delight printing 28mm minis with standard resin I was eager to try printing some gloriously colossal dragons. I chose some models that were probably not the best for beginners, having lots of delicate features, very long and thin antennas, horns, whiskers, stuff like that. I was clumsily breaking all these details in post print clean up and assembly. Among other learning, I thought to try a more durable resin to see if I could be more successful. I had ordered a translucent standard resin marketed on Amazon under the name Jayo that I was pleased with, I had noticed on the resin bottle label it was licensed under Sunlu, what precisely that means, I can’t be certain, but I suspected it was simply that Jayo produces and sells resins based on Sunlu formulas. Having experienced good results with that product, when I saw the Sunlu ABS-like resin offered at such a low price for the 2000 ml size package, I felt it was worth giving it a try. I had never used another abs-like resin before so I can’t say it is or is not as good as the other brand that may cost 2 to 3x as much, but what I can tell you is that I am pleased with how this abs-like resin is performing in my application. It is a thicker viscosity than standard resin and following the results of two benchmark prints, I had to adjust my exposure time up 0.5 seconds, but that was all it took to start printing successful large scale models with details that can stand up to my fumbling! The new prints had much greater flex and durability, I dropped a 12 hour print on the hardwood floor after taking it out of the UV curing box and it survived without loosing horn or claw! The resin comes very well packaged, the jug is sealed in a bag, inside a fitted air bubble sleeve inside a cardboard box. The 2 liter jug is an elongate shape that is easy to hold while pouring and is stable when returning resin through a funnel. The resin came with some funnel filters also, a nice surprise. The Sunlu ABS-like resin seems more consistent from the bottle, like it stays well blended better, than the standard resin I have used. Even when I add more of this resin to a vat I have printed from a couple times, when I mix it with the silicone spatula it seems to combine more readily, at least from the visual perspective. I see the same fine details in my prints, it washes just as easily and does not have any more odor than the standard resin I have been using but it is noticeably more durable…and yet somehow actually costs less. I haven’t found anything to dislike about this resin and at the cost, I can’t see a reason not to use it for all my minis and enjoy a little extra klutz insurance. Maybe other ABS resins are better- I would not know, but for a hobby printer creating miniatures, this resin meets all my needs and expectations while the lower cost allows me to print more stuff than I could possibly paint in a lifetime. Try it, you’ll like it!

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I can’t believe but I had way better results with the SUNLU ABS than with Siraya’s one. I don’t know if it’s the viscosity or higher bending tolerance but I’m printing a whole titan with auto supports and this didn’t failed a single time over 4 days in a row. I did pick this one up to print a few scenery but since the first cones my bottles of Siraya are on the corner.

This ABS resin produce high-quality statues and sturdy tabletop pinecones. It is highly recommended for any type of resin printer. Very good value for money ratio.