Recently I’ve been quite fascinated, reading about people getting scanned at railroad shows and then receiving a STL that they can print at home in their own machine.
But that’s as far as my interest has gone. My painting skills are not good enough to attempt the painting of the 3D figurines.
This video made me realise just how primitive my set up is and wonder if Preiser now has competition in the figurine market.
Cut to about the 7:05 minute for the figurine builds.
Thanks Bill. Yeah, so much is still changing.
What I want in figure creation (fwiw) is:
We’re not there yet, but getting close!
I remember back when I started during the last Ice Age, figures in Large Scale ranged from great to terrible. It might have been Mik back then posted a rant about how ugly Aristo craft figures were and yeah they were hilariously ugly. The best IMO were John Schneiders “Just plain folk” line. They were American 1920-1960 range so worked best for American narrow gauge. I still use them today from John’s ebay store. Priesler is very good but can tend to be a tad european for American lines. Custom figures, Chris Walas was and still is the master. He had an online DIY guide that was posted over on MLS for years, don’t know if it’s still there.
Yea, I printed that off years ago and still use it to this day. To bad I have never gotten any better at making the figures after all this time 
I few years ago when I was big into 7/8" scale, I painted all my caricature figures.
And the 3D printed normal figures.
It was tedious, but kinda relaxing.
I have a couple 3d printed figures from Modelu in 1/29. I’m decent at the body but face details still are a bit of trouble!
A good reference is Boomer Keel’s Figure painting and his work on modifying commercial figures to work with and fit your scenes. Might have to search his web site
Craig,
For eye ball (white) I put a drop of white paint on a flat sheet styrene scrap. Then use a real thin stiff metal rod like brass. Barely dip the end into the paint and place it on the eye. A little tiny bit of paint should come off the rod to cover the eye ball.
For the pupil, do the same with a thinner really thin wire and use your color, blue or black etc.
It takes practice to get just the right amount of paint on the wire.
You can also use this method for mustaches, beards, buttons, etc.
I’m almost convinced in smaller figures eyeballs are more work then convincing…
These figures don’t have the best eye socket so I don’t think that helps either.
I’ll try your suggestion.
I’ve learned a TON from looking into various forums for table top gaming figure painting. Their techniques are great and directly cross to our (larger) figures.
Yeah I’ve got a few YouTube videos I’ve watched as well.
do you have a link to his website?
Korm Boomer’s web site died
thank you very much!
at first i had a slight déjá vu, untill i came to the durability test. then it all fell into place.
one of the master-builders!
he wrote here, if i remember well.
He did. And after a long absence due to moving into dark territory, he is recently back.
This guy on YouTube does some good tutorials on figure painting. 1/35 scale so fairly close to our scales
