Arrrrgh. This little guy is kicking my ar$e. I’m trying so hard to make this as pleasant an experience as possible for prospective builders, but that means being WAY more fussy than if I’m just building it for myself.
Tiny changes to details, parts fit and printing alignment, sometimes (often) repeatedly until I’m happy.
With a normal, do-it-myself model, most of this doesn’t matter, as I can file things down and add bits 'till it works.
Perhaps I’m working to hard.
Anyhoo, NEARLY there now. Here’s a bunch o’ bits that will make up the interior. there are about 15 more parts for the outside, and I completely forgot to print the cranks (printing now…). These are the parts for the 1:32 version. The 1:16 is pretty much the same, just bigger.
First parts for the first subassembly.
In other news, I’m going to go with putting the instructions on a USB to be included in each kit. I’ll also make them downloadable. Sure, it’s not as classy as a nicely printed booklet, but that would be challenging to fit in the box unless it’s kinda tiny.