I'm a fan of Christie's early tank designs so I was eager to get the Vargas Scale Models 1/35 Christie Tank M 1919. The kit is 3D printed. I wanted to both build the kit and learn from how the parts were oriented and supported for printing.
Here are the kit parts:
Turret:
Hull, top view:
Hull, side view:
Tracks and running gear:
The supports were thin and easy to remove. There are some printing artifacts that I
didn't remove, in part to see how visible they'd be after priming. It looks like the layer height is around 50um.
I used some Stynylrez olive green primer and it looks darker than in these pictures. I went for a slightly dirty but not filthy tank:
There are some printer artifacts on the panels over the tracks. The weird shadows behind the turret are from the LED lights and not artifacts:
There are also printer artifacts on the lower front and on the front sides:
Here's Michael from "Hot Fuzz" saying "yarp":
The green is almost certainly wrong and should be darker. The track/running gear are press fit and glued in place with Crafter's Choice glue, so they're a little wonky. The model also needs a flat coat, although I'm tempted to redo the hull and remove the visible artifacts, then repaint in a much darker olive color. Still, it was a quick and instructive build and with the small number of parts, easy to redo without damaging the kit.