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🎨 Is the Era of the Hand Painted Figurine Over?

Modeling
#1

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.

#2

Thanks Bill. Yeah, so much is still changing.

What I want in figure creation (fwiw) is:

  • Selection of figure age / sex
  • Selection of time frame and costume
  • Interactively determine pose (their mannikin in my model)
  • Addition of hand props
  • Generate the digital figure and finalize
  • Print

We’re not there yet, but getting close!

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