A new source for 3D printed ships and planes

I just received a gift of a locally printed Northampton cruiser from a guy in our game club using one of Ghukek's files to create it. It is really very nice. Home printers have come a long way!

I say every model is an approximation because I can't promise that it's perfectly to scale. The moment I make any adjustment for better printability I deviate from a perfect scale model. It's a compromise that is necessary for the medium and scale.

The main things I do are:
- Thicken radio masts significantly.
- Drop the detail on small guns and represent then by a single cylinder.
- Thicken gun barrels.
- Tie gun barrels together for strength.
- Taper off overhangs both to account for printer limitations and add strength.

With these in mind and considering I sometimes have less-than-perfect source material, I don't feel comfortable calling the models perfect representations. This is the origin of my "approximation" disclaimer.

Another part of this is that I do ships by class most of the time. I'll base the model off of a specific ship in the class in most cases but ultimately many ship classes have minor variations between individual ships. I'm open to looking into those specific cases and making a variant. (I actually just took a commission to modify Takao into Maya, Iowa into Missouri, and Fletcher into Johnson. My spreadsheet shows all available variants.)

I have been quite satisfied with XForge/Ghukek's minis. That they are available in gray is a godsend to those of us that are painting challenged. I have just ordered some of the new resin models after receiving a free sample. I have found most of them quite accurate. The only scale problems I have noted is the short length of the RN, RCAN & RAN River Class (Which should be roughly the same length as the US Tacoma) & the IJN Tone Cruiser which is significantly shorter than it should be. Otherwise I am very happy with these models.

Thank you for the feedback, I'll double check those models and adjust if necessary.

Edit: The Tone should be 105.06 mm. If it's not that size for you then you may have received a smaller scale in error. Please reach out to XPForge to have this rectified. My model for it is accurate. The River-class, however, I had mistakenly grabbed the P/P length as my reference point rather than the O/A. This caused it to need to be enlarged by 6%. The proportions were correct though. I will have an updated version out to XPForge by Tuesday 26 May at 9 A.M. EDT. Because this was my mistake, I'll direct XPForge to re-print and ship the models at my expense. 

My sources indicate a length of @ 112mm for Tone, just shorter than the other IJN heavy cruisers.  At 105.06mm Tone is shorter than Oyodo at 107mm when Oyodo was really @ 9 meters shorter.