Honestly depending on how much time I’ll have on my hands the next few months I may just get an SR6 and an OSR2+. Is it true the OSR2+ is up/down depth is greater than the SR6? Also do you know if M0SAIC’s build use PETG or PLA? It looks like craftyhandy’s SR6 uses PETG and Funosr’s build looks fairly sturdy as well.
I am now contemplating whether I want to go w/ a custom OSR2+ from Vespera or try to snag one in a g90ak drop or just order an sr6 from your hobbies customized llc. Lead time is not a huge deal to me since I was initially prepared to wait until December for the Handy2 Pro.
M0SAIC’s pre-built SR6 is within my budget and with his summersale promo code it would come out to about $360 w/ a few accessories. A custom OSR2+ from Vespera would run me about $375 shipped to the US. An OSR2+ from g90ak would run me about $288 for the quiet model and access to their exclusive scripts is a definite bonus.
What actually got me looking into these options over the Handy 2 Pro was the fact that there is a plugin for Koikatsu via @qinnyann which was most recently updated last month: For the Koikatu CharaStudio provides link osr2 sr6 plug-ins as well as script playback procedures this would be a definite boon since I make tons of scenes in the Chara Studio and the current implementation via Love Machine has such long delay when changing scenes on top of it only supporting single axis. I am also interested in trying multi axis scripts and would eventually like to make some to my own specifications.
My Virtamate folder is huge and it also looks like I can use VamX, which I am already subbed to, for multi axis use while making scenes in VAM. There is also the yoooi’s ToySerialController which appears to work w/ the SR6 in VAM as well. On top of that one of the scene creators I am subbed to C&G released a bunch of scenes which support multi axis devices.
Ultimately, I am still doing research on what will fit my use case along with my budget and I greatly value the many perspectives this community has to offer. Thank you again for your outstanding input @ratattack15, @cloudviiv, and @lamp!