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

With some patience and my own resin, I have done it!First of all, I know nothing about LoR.I just like MiniVerse and sharp objects.But I think these are actually my new favorites.Obviously they have to be good to be getting a review.They took some time to cure but the axes DID cure using the provided resin. It just took about 5 minutes under my UV light.The swords however, ha. Don't even try it. I used my own hard type resin to get these guys to cure, and they still took some convincing to get out of the mold. Thankfully cured really well though. And I even made an extra one to prove that the molds CAN be used ;)But once everything was done, I had a blast sanding these guys down and putting them together! 🤣All in all, I have to get more of these!I can reuse the molds, have some cool little extras, and have some badass weapons too!

Let's start with the positives. The sets are cute, the molds are well made. That's it, that's all the positives.Now the bad stuff.The molds are too small to effectively remove the sword/dagger/axe you're making. You will get HUGE bubbles in your blades AND you will most likely pull the scabbard/handle off your blades without getting the blade out of the mold. Not to mention that some of these molds are too thick for a UV/LED lamp to penetrate effectively, necessitating more time under the lamp. You're probably looking at at LEAST 5mins of cure time. Don't even bother using the sun. They probably won't cure at all.You can hardly see through the molds to see if you've managed to get your UV resin into all the cracks and crevices to begin with. The tiny bottles of UV resin they provide you with are VERY HARD TO SQUEEZE. In order to get the resin into the molds in the first place, they provide you with a micro tip, which requires squeezing the bottle even harder. You'll most likely squeeze the resin out of the bottle and all over the place without it ever going into the mold itself.I love this concept. I love LOTR. But this...this is garbage. Do yourselves a favor and do not buy these.

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.

I ordered two and got the exact same thing but I know that’s how this works so I can’t hate. I got the witch king sword and that my least favorite but again it’s how the ball bounces with this .I got them first thing in the morning as expected so that’s always nice .I didn’t even attempt to use the resin included in the kit because of all the reviews saying how difficult it is to work with . I used my own uv resin and mica because i sculpt and I have these things on hand .A tip I can offer to anyone possibly reading this to help them to decide to buy , is heat your resin . I own a heat pad for heating resin and this process makes the resin thinner and easier to fill the mold and decreases the amount of bubbles you get . I also let my filled mold sit on the heated resin mat and let it heat up and I got no bubbles. I also didn’t add the mica first . Mica makes the resin so dense that it almost never curse completely. Use a tooth pic to poke down inside the mold after you add resin to push in the resin to that tiny area , it helps you to get a finished sword with a tip . Don’t leave it in there , just poke it can make a difference in getting a sword with a tip . I bushed on my silver mica after curing . I use a disposable paint brush and add a little resin and mica and brushed on a thin layer to the cured sword and used my uv light to cure.That’s a lot for a beginner to do or even have those things on hand but it’s my experience and I wanted to share .I’m ordering more and I hope I get something different.I think the price is great , even though I didn’t use the included resin I still feel I got my moneys worth. I’m just discovering these neat mini vers things and I just watched lotr movies so I’m super late to the game as it’s 2025 , I’ll just have fun playing catch up.