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Selling 3D-printed tabletop terrain on Etsy
Two Bambu printers running 20 hours a day, packing three afternoons a week.
Monthly income
$2.2k
reported by author
Time to results
4-6 months
Initial investment
$1.8k
Replicability
★★★★★
3/5
Risk profile
ConservativeRadical
How it works
Wargamers pay well for detailed, painted-ready terrain. Print-on-demand style listings with 3-week lead times keep inventory zero.
Step by step
- 1Buy two mid-range FDM printers.
- 2License commercial-use STL bundles from established designers.
- 3Open an Etsy shop with 30 SKUs at launch.
- 4Invest first year of profit into a resin printer for premium SKUs.
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