Special Hobby have sent us details a highly detailed resin kit of an Austro-Hungarian howitzer to be released under their CMK banner.

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Wow!

this resin kit of german ww1 howitzer is fantastic.

love it , but most likely being resin way too expensive

It is 3D printed, perhaps that may bring the price down.

In other references, I have yet to see that Skoda was a Czech company, albeit under Austro-Hungarian rule. After the breakup of the empire, the company remained in Czech hands, and many various products were built. Including automobiles, of course. The name "skoda", pronounced "shkoda", actually means "pity". It's a skoda that I didn't find this informative site years ago.

Incorrect, the master was 3D printed but the production will be resin castings made from the master.

That won't bring the price down? Maybe I'm too optimistic about 3D printing!

Hopefully somene else will pick up the idea ...
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The MSRP is 102Euro -- I'm sure that's a reflection of anticipated sales and costs to produce -- regardless if it was 3D printed to make the mold or not. I'd love to examine a kit however.

I've bought several 3D printed items, mostly from Shapeways. I've never been 100$ happy with the results - unless you want to sand smooth all the parts for such a large model.

It's the same word in Ukrainian-

The pricing sounds fair but 3D printing effects it, now I'm wondering how. I'd love to get my paws on one of these too though! Really looking forward to seeing one built up.




Have you seen their extreme detail printings? I've seen some of their lower end stuff, which looked pretty bad even for large scale models. Even shapeways "fxd" looks like it needs a lot of work.

I'm wondering how 3D printing is figuring in our hobby. I know it's a creative tool in the arsenal but CNC machines are never cheap to own and it seems like the price for high res (I've seen down to 16 microns on shapeways) prints are fairly high because of the long print times and material. I thought being CNC.. prints would be quick, but I see they are not. Wouldn't it be easier to machine or sculpt masters? Does CAD or similar design and 3D printing not speed up the process over more traditional methods? Who and what are modeling companies phasing out? What makes lower res prints worth it?