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What a great project ! I like how it looks already

All I'm gonna say is... I'm so jealous !! Fantastic job

Burnt metal looks great and no less real than the original, great job !!

That is soooo coooool and beautiful !!

I didn't expect that! I have the previous releases but these look enticingly beautiful, I may still buy depending on the price.

With all my respect to the efforts of people creating this kit and regardless of how much I'd love to build a new-tool Phantom... given the €340 preorder price tag for a plastic kit I'm afraid I'll take the blue pill.

I love this! This is such a neglected kit for so long!!

I need this on my shelf but price is the main issue here which unfortunately seems unpromising for my budget ceiling for a kit. Still I'd be eager to push the limits, I hope the IVP version and recce pod is an option.

Ok, got it. Now I'll buy another two

Show off?? Last thing I need or would intend. No. €400 is not big money to show off, considering you can not even buy a 1/32 Lancaster or HpH kit nowadays with that. I'm just fine tuning my annual hobby budget and cutting off some other items to be able to buy two boxes of this kit. You can do that too, if you want.

Quite reasonable pricing here I think I'll buy two.

The fuselage looks awesome and I'm looking forward to placing my order. But no, there are layers and they are visible. Just zoom in and you'll see. The printers today print way much better than what they could achieve a couple of years ago but there will always be layer lines as long as the production technique involves layers. Double the resolution and cut the layer thickness in half if you want, but layers will be there... especially if you are printing a complex shape with variable geometry and topography. One spot will look perfect, but another with different surface curvature will still display the layer lines. That is the nature of the thing. Rememember the geography class where landscapes and heights were illustrated with topographic layers? Wherever the section areas of two layers are not identical there is always a step between the two. A cylinder would make a good example. All sections, i.e layers, are identical and there would be no step as the object rises during printing. But if you are simply printing an egg or a sphere, there will be areas with perfect transitions but still some layers will be visible, mostly around the polar zones. The good thing is, printer companies are getting better at dealing with that and the visible layered areas will be even more restricted in another of couple of years. Nevertheless this is not my complaint at all. After all many of these lines can be removed with wet sanding with a fine sandpaper. It is an extra I really have no problem taking. These companies are giving us models in scales the big fish do not bother to produce, so they have my personal support which a few print lines cannot break. Wonderful job Lukgraph! Keep bringing us great kits!!

Great topics both! I'm in.

Museums generally can make mistakes choosing wrong colors when restoring their displays and that can be totally misleading for us who model these planes. Color reference in the instructions about the landing gear interiors is correct, they are really white and Jetmads is right with that.

Amazing, what can be done with that stuff nowadays! Interesting project to follow!

Looks good!

Printer resolution is important. But what is more important and many seem to ignore is the software for "slicing" the design input. There may be even huge differences between two parts that are printed with identical machines, resin and other settings if one of them is "sliced" with a far better software.

Looking very good!

Jetmads X-3 kit came about in 2022 or thereabouts, if I'm correct, when 4k or 6k printers were the main stuff around. The 3D printing technology advances fast and there are 16k machines available today afaik so it may not be a fair comparison printing the same parts with comtemporary machines' resolutions. It's like the pictures we have taken with our cell phone cameras at 10 megapixels a few years back vs today's 48 or 50 megapixels.

The guy builds a good looking Lear here. He does an extra job puttying the fuselage which I think is unnecessary because sanding 3D resin with water on large surfaces gives very good results anyway, which is practical when it comes to the fuselage of the Learjet with very few surface details to lose when sanded. Nevertheless the finished model looks quite fine I think. Empty side of the glass is way shorter than the full side when it comes to Jetmads kits, as I look in my boxes and also see what others can achieve with them. They may be more suitable for the builder rather than the assembler and obviously there are areas that need improvement but I can say ups are considerably more than downs. Even Paul Fisher comments here on LSP that they are doing a great job, so that alone should suggest something at least. That we do not see many Learjets built should be normal I guess. We did not see many Viggens either, maybe five or six that I remember and they produced 1500 of them in three runs. Probably a small portion of their customer base bother to share what they build, not to mention that a considerable number of buyers must be collectors. Having bought so far all their products I can comment more on Jetmads, their project updates, design approach, customer interaction and service and so on but many of these have been discussed before so I'll suffice to say that I'm very glad they exist. I understand paying upfront for their kits is not crowdfunding or a financial issue but just to create synergy and interaction during the design development process of their kits with those serious enough to buy. For example, their last F-84F project update included a call to buyers to share their wishes and suggestions regarding the marking and squadron options that they wanted to see included in the kit. I sent them my choice for an aircraft of the 36º Stormo that my uncle flew and they said they will lnclude the markings in the decal sheet. This approach for me is more important than a part fit or a 3D print issue that I can expect will improve in the future anyway.

Shall we start a wish list and ask AI its top desired choices

Anybody has any news about the 1/32 SR-71 in the original post on page 1 ?

Telling clearly why resin kits in 1:32 scale are expensive. Thanks...

I remember a thousand bucks being spoken. Good to have it at half of that, still no little money though. I'm indecisive

I had asked if there would be any special scheme options included with the kit and they had replied these shall be a separate and dedicated release in future.