MGA's Miniverse Make It Mini The Lord of The Rings Mini Collectibles, Blind Packaging, DIY, Resin Play, Replicas, NOT Edible, Collectors, 8+

I ordered three of the Lord of the Rings Miniverse minis, so had no idea which ones I would get. I ended up with the high elven sword, Sting, and double headed ax.The biggest challenge was mixing the colors. This was most notable with the ax and Sting. Matching both ax heads proved difficult.These cured easily in mid-day sun outside in an hour - rotated halfway through. We also cured them for a few more minutes using a combo 356nm/405nm gel polish light once they were removed from their molds. These need 365nm light. A 405nm light box I use for resin 3d printing did not work at all.The ax resin had burst within the packaging before we opened it, so had limited resin for that model. However, it was enough for two blades. The ax is a noticably different scale than the swords. I suggest running a lighter quickly over the ax before curing to remove bubbles.The swords came with two hits so we could make two models. This was nice for sting to make one blue and the other silver with a hint of blue. I had hoped to do one side silver and the other blue, but this didn't seem like it would work with the included molds. Gently pull the sword molds open from the sides to help remove air bubbles before curing and to remove the swords after curing.Overall the experience was lots of fun. The displays are nice. The models were easy to make for three adults who had never done one of these before. Follow the directions, be careful when filling the molds, and allow plenty of time to cure in the bright sun or with 365nm UV light.

I thought these were super cool when I first heard of them. But after buying a few and none of them working properly- I tossed them. First- the molds I believe are too thick. Even with A good UV lamp the swords have problems curing.Second the resin containers- they expect you to squeeze them but are of a harder plastic. Way too may air bubbles form in the molds. And at times the molds flood causing air bubbles. I’ve worked with resin plenty of times. This method is poorly executed.Third- the resin itself is not good at all. Even in direct sun 24 hours later it did not cure.And when one of the swords did- it broke in the mold. Cause again the mold is too thick to wiggle the thin blades from.For the people who have had success congrats. But I don’t reccomend these one bit. Waste of money.MGA Just make the weapons already made. People will buy them.

The media could not be loaded. holy moly I got 3 more and they are all just repeat….. 8 of them in total and 4 is repeat even 4 of them are rare still I would rather have any different one…..OK, let me start what I love this kit. It’s amazing. Everything works great, but I was a little bit worried as I read all reviews, saying how hard it is for it to work, there’s people saying they work with resin for years and it didn’t work well somehow I’m not sure what they did but this is what I did for it to come out pretty nice and I like it, first of all you guys put two scoop of powder and shake it and then after that, definitely remember to get out all the extra powder out just by tapping the case or shake it or whatever, Make sure all those powder comes out. Don’t leave too much powder in there that’s what I did anyway, next get yourself a UV light I think it definitely help and make the process 10 times faster, I just let the UV light shine there for 30 minutes, but you can see the tip wasn’t fully ready, so I add a bit more resin and let the light on for another 15 minutes and it come back out pretty nice with the tip there but of course it is a tiny crack there, before you remove it make sure you pull on the mold on both side it will make it so much easy to get it out , and bam you are done.This kit is definitely fun to make but do need some patience and the detail on it is very nice I think is definitely worth the money. Definitely one of the fun diy you get to do at home. 5/5 recommended.Open the second (Uruk Hai Sword) one today, but this have no color powder that come with it, it will come out clear like how I show it, so you will need some paint to paint it, I paint my black and some red colors, and for the handle part there is black tape kind of light material that come with Biden use it because it doesn’t look that good, so I just use some black string and wrap it around it. Still come out super easy with the same step like how I make the first one.(they do have color they are already in the resin that come with, I say is clear because I use my own resin) oopsSuper happy about the third one it’s a rare sense that simple easy this one come with a powder so you don’t have to worry about coloring it yourself.Little bit disappointed on the fourth (Herugrim) one cause the resin leak out of the plastic after I pull off the first layer, and it’s kind of all over the place on the inside the ball, but it’s one of my favorite set up in all four that I open so far so I guess that make it up still the same step but this one doesn’t come with the powder, but I used the powder from the other ones that I got,I didn’t open the fifth,6,7,8 because it’s the same one I got before.