HeyGears G1 promises full-color 3D miniatures without painting

HeyGears is trying to pull full-color printing out of industrial demo rooms and onto a hobby desk. The G1 Series is being pitched as a desktop full-color 3D and UV printer that can produce finished-looking models straight from the print bed, with no manual painting required. For miniature painters, the question is not whether that sounds futuristic. It is whether printed color can survive the same close-up inspection that usually sends a model back to primer, blends, and varnish.

The company says the G1X handles 2D, 2.5D, and 3D printing with 10M+ colors, while also using transparent materials to create light and shadow effects. Secondary coverage says the G1X runs an Epson i3200 print head with 3,200 nozzles and an eight-channel ink system, paired with piezo inkjet and immediate UV curing. HeyGears also says Blueprint Studio uses line-scan imaging to detect object position, shape, and edges, and it claims a 3X faster UV printing speed boost based on internal testing. That is a lot of machinery behind a simple promise: color in the print, not after it.

The pricing makes the pitch feel less like a concept sketch and more like an actual consumer offering. Store pages listed a G1X full-3D pack VIP offer at $3,299, a G1X starter pack at $2,999, and a G1 starter pack at $1,699, alongside higher MSRPs. The same listings said the launch was expected soon and that the VIP offer would disappear after launch. Package contents included a HeyVerse Plus annual subscription, a resin station, and a resin and cleaning-fluid refill kit, which underlines how much of the workflow still sits beyond the printer itself.

HeyGears also showed its broader resin ambitions earlier this year, launching the Reflex 2 Series in Chicago, US, on February 18, 2026, and framing its resin ecosystem around miniatures, prototypes, and production applications. That matters because the G1 Series is not arriving in a vacuum. It is landing inside a company already trying to build a hobby and production pipeline, with the G1 as the most ambitious piece yet.

That is why the G1 announcement lands with such a mix of excitement and suspicion in miniature painting circles. Full-color 3D printing has usually lived in expensive industrial territory, with systems like Stratasys’ J55 Prime setting the standard for what real multi-material color can look like. HeyGears is asking the hobby to believe that same basic idea can fit on a desk. The real verdict will come down to the things painters care about most: surface quality, color fidelity, durability, cleanup, and whether a printed face, cloak, or sword actually looks finished when the novelty wears off and the lamp comes on.