hello. I am printing your file. so far, it is great. except the front end of the truck. it broke into pieces as I was removing the supports. it is extremely weak. this is being printed for my grandson. is there any way you can bulk up the front end? so far everything seems very strong and sturdy, except the front end. thank you!! also, I plan on building your entire library of vehicles. my grandson will LOVE them.

Finally got it out the door after 3 hrs of gluing an creative modifications. For those struggling with the wheels you can re-print the top disc that goes on the top of the payload and glue it over the axels so that wheels would spin. Also if you put the washer before the wheel instead of after they spin much better. 5 /5 for the model and 1/5 for assembly. The important thing is that my son is happy 😊

My 3-year-old son asked for a firetruck, this one instantly caught my eye. The details looked amazing, I knew he would love it. When I saw the cool assembly animations where it gets assembled in minutes I was sold. After getting my red filament for this project I was stoked to start. After a day of printing, I was excited to build it and have it ready for him in the morning. Sadly that’s where good things ended. I am an hour or 2 in and it’s about half done, and I am ready to call it quits. First, I wasn’t ready to glue everything together and second I was not ready to figure out how to assemble the little pieces myself. If you follow animations you’ll end up having to disassemble things later to add the small details. For example, you should assemble the cabin first with all the panels before putting it on the frame. Don’t glue the front fenders until you align the cabin over it. Get ready to find creative solutions for putting things together. For example, to hang sliding doors I was able to jam filament into the holes. Not sure what I actually had to do. And then after doing all that I realized you can't even open them cause they don’t have handles. Make sure you have screws laying around as the animations don't show them. … I am still not sure how you are supposed to attach wheels to the axles so the wheels spin. Why can't you just make them snap in like all the other toys out there? See the Murata truck it has a similar complexity as this model but builds in seconds. What annoys me the most is how the whole thing is badly designed inside out, or maybe it’s just unfinished. For example: - Why is the payload split into 3 pieces and why can’t it be printed as a single piece? Why should I be gluing the red payload to the gray frame? There is a bolt coming in from the bottom to secure the gray payload floor frame thing. Why can’t you just have a plank across the bottom of the payload and have that same center bolt secure the payload as well? Why not use the same kind of bolt to attach the cabin and secondary cabin to the frame? That will also make fenders not as loose. The front hood armpiece is a joke and broke off in seconds. If you do want to open it you are better off just having a hole at the top of the hood to stick the filament in and it will be more flexible and easier to replace if broken. It’s still a bad idea cause it’s only a single point of contact. Additionally because of how it’s printed the hood will have a texture of your printer’s bed so it won’t match with the rest of the truck. Seats should just push into the frame why am I gluing them? There shouldn’t be any spacing between the 3 seats so you can print them without support (I couldn’t get all support out either). The top pipes and many of the top pieces should be a single piece so users don’t have to glue them together especially since they are the same color. Why do I have to glue/screw in the axels to the frame, why can't they just be part of the frame? Make a hole for the steering wheel so it can be pushed in, as gluing it will never hold for such a small piece. I can go on and on... I can see a lot of dedication and love went into designing this model as well as others that he has. The design is really good I would still love to get it finished. The biggest issue is mismanaged expectations. The animations looked so good that I expected a flawless print and assembly but instead, I got what looks like a work in progress. It's almost as if this was never meant to be printed. The author should at the very least update the description so people know what to expect. Maybe I am being too harsh since I am fairly new to 3d printing or maybe I just got spoiled by the Murata excavator/truck build where things snapped into place in minutes. I hope others will read this and know what to expect from this build. I am frustrated and feel beaten it’s 2 am and no firetruck to show for my son in the morning.