Makerfarm Prusa Kits - Help Me Decide

[Chadd]

I know that I dog on the 12" i3v kit but out of the box it just wouldn't produce good prints. But now that I finally have everything lined out it prints very well. I still have a bit of periodic Z axis banding so I still have few things to do it but I am more than happy with the print quality now. Here's a picture of the T-Rex skull I am printing for the kids. This was printed at .2mm with no supports just as shown. It looks much better in person than the cellphone pics suggests.

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If it would have printed like this out of the box I would have been very happy with it but without replacing major components of the kit it wouldn't. Before my modifications I couldn't print this part at all because I would have first layer issues and major layer delamination because of the Y axis and heat bed warpage.