I ordered a 3D Printer from Amazon (for Black Friday) and should be getting it later today. The Elegoo Neptune 3 Max. It’s a filament based printer. I debated on getting a resin printer (for the amount of detail you can get from prints), but decided against it since you need a couple other steps to properly finish the prints. Washing and curing. The filament type will have the visible layers. But that’s not much of an issue.
I don’t believe this will come with any filament, but that’s okay since I still have a few spools of (I think) PLA that I bought some years back when I was using a ‘PrintrBot’ 3D printer. That one I assembled myself (it was cheaper than buying it already assembled). And while I did print a few thing with that - it still needed to be fine tuned in regards to the nozzle position (height) and appropriate temperature for whatever filament you were using.
As for making models, I do have some experience with modeling. Some with AutoCAD and Sketchup. I did download FreeCAD, but will still need to learn my way around that. When I was using the PrintrBot I did have to convert some file types. I’m hoping that won’t be as much of an issue like it was. One thing I didn’t have a lot of knowledge on was including supports for prints that go outward with nothing underneath them… Surely/hopefully that will be taken care of with the FreeCAD or some other program. 
I’ll likely post about this in the ‘What’s New’ topic after I get it unpacked. I believe there’s a bit of assembly required, but nothing like when I had to build the PrintrBot.