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Hello Andrej,

I have two of them, the Wyoming and the Cachalot. The printing is well done, but is in large assemblies, so painting the Wyoming bridge is almost impossible. The bridge is one piece from the main deck up (including the mast), and is printed in bright orange resin. Unless you are amazing with a paint brush, there will be slopping marks or orange resin visible. As for the Catchalot, it's a hollow print so the companionways fore and aft go into the appropriate locations, and ladders are printed into the hull. The sail is very well printed. The only major issue is the kit is 1/309 scale rather than 1/350 scale, so it's quite overscale. It's the size of an Argonaut or Nautilus.

Also, both kits show numerous inaccuracies, all of which are present in the World of Warships object files. SSModel (and Gaga too, since they're the same company just using different colored resin) just downloaded the game, ripped the object files out of it, and started printing. The "kits" are great examples of what can be done with 3D printing, but as scale models, they are seriously lacking.

BTW, take a look at the end of this video as to what you can find in an SSModel kit (my original Catchalot kit arrived with an HMS Thrasher hull with a similar issue), at about the 13:13 point...

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Jon