Very cool to see a well done model of this ship. I'm still a little dubious on the merits of 3d printing parts for production. On the plus side, parts should be more heat and stress tolerant than urethane resin for a given thickness, and I wouldn't question it for specific thin, low detail parts which need strength within a kit, IE the skeletal corridor connecting the big pieces in this kit. It's also worth considering for lower detail parts with deep undercuts, which would otherwise need to be cut into many pieces for molding.
However, the economic and technological reality of 3d printing, as it is today, means that to make money selling big prints like the main bodies of this Event Horizon - a more economical printer than a form2 is required. So now every buyer will need days of intensive cleanup work if they want a final product you can take close photos of, and even with all that work, the sharpness of the detail will suffer. Not to say the prints aren't great for an FDM, they look very clean. But to me, it would be very preferable to have ONE master made at a very high resolution (and cost) have the extremely fiddly finishing work done once, by the kitmaker, and have hollow castings made for production. That's how I do it anyway.
Of course, it's possible the kitmaker is chiefly a digital sculptor, without a shop or manual finishing aptitude, in which case distributing a raw 3d print is a better option than nothing at all - I just wish he offered it in a higher resolution, especially considering the insane amount of detail on this ship. I really doubt it will ever be 'sold out' for good, considering production only requires a spool of filament and time to set up 5 or 6 builds!
Again, not to take away from the model itself - it looks like a very impressive kit, obviously well sculpted and priced appropriately for what it is.
