Making kits is definitely the goal, I admit I have ended up with the resin printers on a maybe 20% work prototyping 80% personal ie Firefox printing basis. I managed to get all of them at serious low prices just by luck and a bit of a gamble, especially with the Photocentric printer as it was relatively new, but not well known and 0 official reviews. I still have to finish repairing my second Formlabs Form 1 as it was a kickstarter version and the laser assembly focussing lenses were literally tacked in place with superglue. One of them was at least 3 degrees off straight and the beam focus was terrible with what they call "rabbit ears" which cause printing errors. I think I will have to CNC a new part from brass tube to be able to mount a decent 3 element focussing lens, the cheap Form 1 clone I have working perfectly with a new diode has one.
1/48th scale would be very hard to produce at a reasonable quality level on the best FDM machines even with a 0.2 or 0.3mm nozzle, maybe the body parts as long as you don't mind a lot of work sanding and re-scribing panel lines as they will be 0.2mm wide or 0.007" at 1/48th. You need the resin printers with sub 0.1mm X-Y resolution for it to really work.
I haven't talked about pricing as I didn't want to upset the mods as I think you need to a premium account for selling.
All I will say is at a well educated guess Shapeways for example would want around maybe close to $1000 to print a 1/48th model, I would be looking at around a tenth of that.
Bigger scale, maybe 1/36th or so would work better on FDM for the all but the high detail/thin parts, so I could do a hybrid kit, part files for self print and a set of resin printed parts.
I will admit I am picky on the end result, this is a man who spent more than a day sanding and priming a Powerpuff Girl for my niece, because I thought the FDM print wasn't good enough!
Also revisited the colour, and think I got a bit wrapped up in the blueness of the blue... The darker sections are more grey/blue, but 60-70% is more towards grey with a slight blue tint
I need to add some more subtle panel variations to make it looks half way correct, as there are at least 5 different shades on the models, with graduations in-between or overlaid. The originals primer did have a blue tint to it, so that affects the colour towards the blue part of the spectrum.
Interestingly on the real tailplane moulding I have the resin looks blue/green with a plain grey primer splashed on. Obviously the colour this appears on your monitor could be way different so could be hard to tell.
And yes they hardly show up to the eye but they actually put rivet markings on the masters!
It's actually a very thin resin skin with a foamed polyurethane infill, weighs very little.