Welcome to Like A Hero — a hobbyist 3D printing channel focused on real-world printing, tabletop miniatures, and the fun (and occasional fails) of learning the craft.
I’m a guy who turned his garage and then, office into a miniatures workshop. This channel documents the entire journey: dialing in printers, testing filaments, fixing common problems, printing custom miniatures and tabletop gaming, and sharing the little wins and lessons along the way.
Whether you’re new to 3d printing, deep into minis, or just love the problem-solving side of the hobby, you’re in the right place.
I read every comment and reply to as many as I can. Drop your questions, your fails, or your favorite prints — let’s build this community together.
3D printing • miniatures • FDM • tabletop proxies • filament tests • printer fixes • hobby journey
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Hey guys! Sorry for no video last week. I have been working real hard behind the scenes to add a few things to the workflow.
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Is the Dawn of Fire series the worst books from Black Library? Absolutely (only purchase so far that I’ve regretted). Should’ve just stuck with Dark Imperium Trilogy
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These videos lately are really getting a lot of reach, more than I could’ve imagined tbh. The 3 title approach showed 50% of clicks/views were coming from the one that had “resin” in the title.
I’ve learned to create 3 title archetypes:
Straightforward, technical, Provocative . Just sharing my results with you all. Which one did you get on your home page?
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I have had this one on my To-Do list for a while. This printer was purchased a couple years back with the intention of just printing fidgets for my kids. 40 days after the purchase the machine failed and Creality refused to refund/replace my purchase.
I rigged a fix that is still holding the extruder in place even after 1200 print hours. Started this youtube channel because of this printer 3 months ago and its been quite a journey and very fun hobby. But budget printers do have their issues and trust me I have had them with mine.
The review is going to be a bit negative but I think in the video there is a part more important than the review of the K1 SE by Creality.
We are entering a era of 3d printing mainstream and companies continue to push for sub 300 even sub 200 budget printers, kickstarter campaigns that over promise and then take your money and delay or under deliver. (Just today Bondtech made a statement about the INDX printer)
Its a bit different type of video that what you all see on my channel but its an honest take on my printer and what I am learning about this field. It'll be out tomorrow Thursday 8/01/26 8am PST
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Thank you guys for all the support lately on the channel and welcome to all the new people! I think since I am a educator by profession, my videos always lean towards instructional/guide-ish type videos. I have a video dropping tomorrow on scaling files for kitbashing fdm miniatures and its a super cool mini. I wanted to drop a poll to gather feedback for future videos:
1 month ago | [YT] | 25
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After all that. Not a single human ever actually looked at the video. I am 100% confident saying this. Creators lose channels after years of work to crap like this.
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Removed 6 videos (my first six videos) I was also effected by the Markscan stuff. The close up video where I compared different layer heights using a model from cults3d was flagged. I removed the other similar videos (one where I painted the same model from cults3d and showed the entire process “I Suck at Painting”) even though they all had just a few hundred views each.
I do this channel for fun and am shocked and grateful for our growth so I will continue to just 3d print things that I want to print and not start doing other stuff just because some sleezy company employs a broken ai system to spam strikes on anything that even appears close to something they have or just claim unfair competition like they did with GHAMAK (they know it is flawed but they do it on purpose knowing most people will just comply rather than fight).
I will change the way I shoot b roll and will refrain from mentioning certain names.
Even though last weeks video mentioned the mmf page of the creator and Sundays video will as well, I am not sure if I will even do that anymore.
One of my favorite things to do is write a little lore into my videos and I think I will keep that because I enjoy doing it, hopefully it all works out!
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The algorithm doesn’t lie. This is the whole different side on YouTube that I’m trying to educate myself on
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First time ever walking into a Warhammer store! In Barcelona for the day and it was nearby. Great experience! For Leman Russ! For the All-Father!
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