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Post by Burkeomatic on May 30, 2022 5:25:00 GMT
I saw Troy McMillan review this. Given the fact that I have yet to have a 3D printed plane fly for more than 2 minutes, and once you crash them, they're dead, $20 is a tough pill to swallow for plans. Don't get me wrong, I completely appreciate the difficulty in designing these, and the time and testing of airframes, but I still have a hard time paying $20 for STL files (the preconfigured G codes never work for me and I have to go through and slice it all myself anyways) then spending $20-30 im materials plus huge amounts of time printing for something that has a 80% chance of failure. I'm not saying I haven't enjoyed building 3D printed planes in the past, and I know that my skills have improved because of all of the planes I have printed and money I have wasted, but I guess I just have to be in the mood, and I'm not right now. If it goes on sale for $10 or something like that, then I think I may buy it. It also seems kind of like a waste 3D printing if it isn't scale or something unusual you can't do with other material. What do you all think?  craycle.com/product/fpvorca-stl/ |
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Post by oliverw on May 30, 2022 6:02:16 GMT
I dig it. Might have to add one to my hangar at some point
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Post by ratcheeroo on May 30, 2022 18:03:58 GMT
I saw Troy McMillan review this. Given the fact that I have yet to have a 3D printed plane fly for more than 2 minutes, and once you crash them, they're dead, $20 is a tough pill to swallow for plans. Don't get me wrong, I completely appreciate the difficulty in designing these, and the time and testing of airframes, but I still have a hard time paying $20 for STL files (the preconfigured G codes never work for me and I have to go through and slice it all myself anyways) then spending $20-30 im materials plus huge amounts of time printing for something that has a 80% chance of failure. I'm not saying I haven't enjoyed building 3D printed planes in the past, and I know that my skills have improved because of all of the planes I have printed and money I have wasted, but I guess I just have to be in the mood, and I'm not right now. If it goes on sale for $10 or something like that, then I think I may buy it. It also seems kind of like a waste 3D printing if it isn't scale or something unusual you can't do with other material. What do you all think? craycle.com/product/fpvorca-stlI pretty much agree, the 3d printed plane thing not what they cracked it up to be. As far as being a useful piece of equipment, the 3d printer is a great thing, printed planes need to come along a little further I think. Think I said this already but the Flerken looks an awful lot like the Orca |
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Post by Burkeomatic on May 30, 2022 19:59:48 GMT
I saw Troy McMillan review this. Given the fact that I have yet to have a 3D printed plane fly for more than 2 minutes, and once you crash them, they're dead, $20 is a tough pill to swallow for plans. Don't get me wrong, I completely appreciate the difficulty in designing these, and the time and testing of airframes, but I still have a hard time paying $20 for STL files (the preconfigured G codes never work for me and I have to go through and slice it all myself anyways) then spending $20-30 im materials plus huge amounts of time printing for something that has a 80% chance of failure. I'm not saying I haven't enjoyed building 3D printed planes in the past, and I know that my skills have improved because of all of the planes I have printed and money I have wasted, but I guess I just have to be in the mood, and I'm not right now. If it goes on sale for $10 or something like that, then I think I may buy it. It also seems kind of like a waste 3D printing if it isn't scale or something unusual you can't do with other material. What do you all think? craycle.com/product/fpvorca-stlI pretty much agree, the 3d printed plane thing not what they cracked it up to be. As far as being a useful piece of equipment, the 3d printer is a great thing, printed planes need to come along a little further I think. Think I said this already but the Flerken looks an awful lot like the Orca Through talking to people FT planes look alot like other planes. Which doesn't bother me so much, because usually they state the design they are referencing. At the end of the day, my night fury is knocked off the RD2 (albeit easier to fly). My mig is knocked off some papercraft plans with heavy alterations, and my FABU is literally a knock off of the habu, which I need to finish. But it was a ground up design just using the plane for reference, and I imagine FT does the same. It isn't like they are taking community plans and passing them as theirs. So I can't really say much, and lets be real there is only so much you can do without something appearing to be a knock off. I think it looks like the big ZOHD dart too.  The only thing that aggravates me is the whole apparent feud between Overstreet and Jack, where he felt the need to release a design that Jack was either working on or had already, and that whole Overstreet/master series thing. I know I was out for awhile, but I get why people are salty about it. I did some investigation, and a ton of the Overstreet releases coincided with 13th squadron releases. That to me seems like bullying. I get they have a business to run, but they seem to say one thing, and do another. That and FT could rely more on their community. As a former supporter, I would have loved nothing more than for them to have released one of my designs under their name and given me say a 5-10% cut or whatever. But they decided John Overstreet was their community, lol. |
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