One of the reasons I chose the Creality CR-10 is because two of the guys I turn to for advice have the exact same machine. I also waited until Black Friday to buy so I got close to 50% off. But remember, owning the printer is only about 20% of it. The rest is making it do what you want. I started with certain goals, and first was to be able to print stuff from files my fellow members sent me. That wasn't difficult, so I then tried modifying those files and printing the new parts. That's fairly easy as well, but now comes the last and hardest of my goals, to learn to make my own designs. I'm still trying to learn openscad and if that goes well my first design will be a simple box to hold a battery between the frame rails in the Opel Blitz. Then a similar box for a speaker.

I'm also trying to promote the free exchange of STL files. I can understand if a guy spends a couple years doing all the designs for a tank he might not want to share, but for the small stuff it's better for us all to just share the info. Kevin Grannum put all his designs up at his website and you can download them all for free. I think that's absolutely fantastic, and he has some real good stuff, including an excellent 20L jerry can and a tank trap that I've already made several of. Thingiverse is also great and I just printed an old time phone booth that should be great with a bit of tweaking. I think if I just enlarge it by about 20% it will be the perfect size. I'm probably gonna move again the end of this coming summer and a place with a piece of land like I had when i did Ansbach West is a priority. I miss my tank park like you wouldn't believe. Stupid City of Livonia. Made me pay $175 and be on probation for three months because ... I let my cat ... go outside. Can ya believe that crap? Had to move, so here we are, but the next place will be better.