Mercedes AMG W05 in Scale 1/12

gringao · Post by **gringao** » Tue Dec 08, 2015 4:14 pm

email sent!

15badcats · Post by **15badcats** » Tue Dec 08, 2015 8:10 pm

Do you have any pics of the kit so we can see what the parts look like and see what is included Thanks

scaleautofactory · Post by **scaleautofactory** » Thu Dec 10, 2015 10:32 am

@15badcats
as soon i get the parts from the supplier i will present the pictures here.

gp-models · Post by **gp-models** » Thu Dec 10, 2015 12:14 pm

Holy smokes!

What a price! Can you explain a bit to the kit? Pics would be much better and absolutely a must!
Is it a licensed kit or why is the price so high??

Realy shocked at moment, if it is not an open kit, remember the MG kits and i think it wil not be Tamiya quality!

Mr.Grumpy · Post by **Mr.Grumpy** » Thu Dec 10, 2015 12:30 pm

gp-models wrote:Holy smokes!
What a price! Can you explain a bit to the kit? Pics would be much better and absolutely a must!
Is it a licensed kit or why is the price so high??

Realy shocked at moment, if it is not an open kit, remember the MG kits and i think it wil not be Tamiya quality!

um, have you tried reading the thread?

gp-models · Post by **gp-models** » Thu Dec 10, 2015 1:12 pm

Yes i tried, so if i missunderstood something it would be great to point on it, not to ask if i read it.
Seen no mistake i made, so it would be helpfull if you can explain what i made wrong, even if i made something wrong!

scaleautofactory · Post by **scaleautofactory** » Thu Dec 10, 2015 1:14 pm

gp-models wrote:Holy smokes!
What a price! Can you explain a bit to the kit? Pics would be much better and absolutely a must!
Is it a licensed kit or why is the price so high??

Realy shocked at moment, if it is not an open kit, remember the MG kits and i think it wil not be Tamiya quality!

It's a self designed 3D printed kit.
All parts printed in ABS by a 3th party supplier - with an FDM home printer it's quite difficult to get a perfect result.
The Kit will have 74 Parts and decals.
3D printing is currently high pricing - i have try to add Rubber-like 3d printed tyres - the estimate was 300€ for a set of 4 tyres

To print the parts in other smoother material is also to expencive - it's ends in a price upto 1000€...
An other way is making resin copies of the body and white metal copies of the other parts - i'm not able to make white metal copies.
To produce the parts in resin and white metal from a supplier it's much more expencive as 3D-Printing.
At the end, i decided to use 3D printed parts, this allows me to adjust the parts after the first run without recasting the molds for the copies.

gp-models · Post by **gp-models** » Thu Dec 10, 2015 1:19 pm

Thanks Torsten, this was helpfull.
Understand that it might be expensive to produce it as 3D print, but a resin casted model would be much cheaper and makes more reason for potential buyers. WM casting is not a real secret, did a lot of it in early years of modeling, makes sence to go by one day

scaleautofactory · Post by **scaleautofactory** » Sat Dec 19, 2015 3:20 pm

First set of Parts - except the body - is printed. Parts are not smoothed yet.

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