[Charlie]

Just got this and wondered if anyone could tell me what make it is ?   body and chassis both marked as made in Italy

[Kevan]

Area 71 - excellent quality sintered 3D printed... it'll be spot on for scale knowing them

[Anthony B]

Nice catch Kev. I have just received their 499 and tbh - at first glance I am not that impressed with the printing quality. We will soon see ?

[Charlie]

Just got this and wondered if anyone could tell me what make it is ?   body and chassis both marked as made in Italy

[Charlie]

Thanks ! ?

[Johnno]

Nice catch Kev. I have just received their 499 and tbh - at first glance I am not that impressed with the printing quality. We will soon see ?

I have never been impressed with any 3d print quality that requires and demands quality, we have a couple of racers in our group wanting to add a 1:24 3d printed Datsun to the classes and they are worse than ugly in appeareance and race worse than they look, yet these cars cost $55 to print and build with required running parts... why would any person want to spend $55 on an absolute POS I've no idea and the comments say the cars are a great class to run for newbies, slow, cheap and nasty for deslotting, NO THEY ARE NOT, if we want people to join this hobby we can't go selling this garbage. 

There is another push on currently that I've heard about trying to get this garbage on my track and into the group, I am not having it and am preparing to actually quit the group and possibly the entire hobby, having already started working on the advertisement and list of inclusions.

As a society we must take a stand against, what is simply crap POS items regardless if 3d printed or commercial. 

I have seen some excellent 3d prints that were done correctly with the correct plastic and settings, though this seems very few and far between.  

Just print correctly and not skrimp and save on filament which is one of the main causes of poor prints.

Johnno

[Kevan]

Wind it in mate!

That's a sintered 3D printed bodyshell, not filament.

Nobody ever forces someone to buy anything for this hobby, if you don't like it that's your choice, others obviously think otherwise.

[Johnno]

Wind it in mate!

That's a sintered 3D printed bodyshell, not filament.

Nobody ever forces someone to buy anything for this hobby, if you don't like it that's your choice, others obviously think otherwise.

I, just like you and everyone else am entitled to my opinion and thoughts so do NOT tell me what I can and can not say

3d printed is 3d printed

[DPJ]

Johnno, I think you haven't seen a properly printed, quality, 3D RESIN print. Yes, some are brittle, depending on the mix of resin, but a Filament 3D print cannot match the resolution and surface quality of resin. Resin is durable if mixed properly, but, not as durable as what a filament printer can provide. That's the trade off.

Here's a print of some louvres I had commissioned by a well known modeler in Germany. This is impossible to achieve with a filament printer, period.
           


Here's another print of a rear engine cover to turn a GT2RS into a GT2 Touring, printed by the same guy.
       

[Kevan]

Does anyone recognise what the car actually is?