P1S for me: all I did was swap to a hardened steel nozzle+gears, installed voxelpla detached motion feet instead of the solid rubber pads, switched to lan mode, and got a couple build plates from darkmoon(satin/cfx). I have a separate hs nozzle I wired a 33ohm resistor in-line to up nozzle temps as well, just haven't installed it yet. I print from a polydryer with the printed 5% air exchanger mod+mesh plastic upgraded to SS window screen on the …

Lot's of people recommend Glock clones, but to me they're really not the ideal starter project ...

• Relatively expensive. A quality slide and barrel and OEM parts kits cost as much or more than just buying a good used Glock.
• Obviously not an option in places that restrict the sale of gun parts.
• Too easy to slap all the parts together with zero understanding of how the thing actually works.
• You don't learn much. You're printing one part a…

You mean a PDW kit? Most people associate pistol carbines with stuff like the Urutau or DB9 or stuff like that, not with chassis for handguns. PDW is the tearm most people use for what you're looking for.

Anyway, I've never made one, but the Super Patriot has STEP files, so you could remix it for a Hellcat slide as long as you've got the measurements right. https://guncadindex.com/detail/Super-Patriot-PDW-Blank-Series:e