[Reason]

Wow, 3D printing sure has come a long way in the last few years!

This website is offering custom, hand-painted, 8" statues from 3d models for $300. That's about the same price as some limited-edition statues go for and the quality is just as good.
http://www.ownage.com/official/wiki/Autoprinting/

I would love to use this service to get one of Tigersan's characters made into a statue, but he would have to agree to it of course.

[Cowprobe]

This looks to be an amazing opportunity.

Pricing must be mind blowing but I guess the expense is balanced by the actual physical item.

If played right a model might be rendered in its composite parts as a prototype to be later resin cast for home kit replication.

Making a set of 'base' figurines that could be altered to suit through sculpted 'green-stuff' wouldn't be a bad way to start.

Thanks for the sweet update Reason.

[10-4]

This is a cool find. Nice to have this kind of service on hand. Thanks for posting the link.

[Neocene]

A good example of 3D printers can be seen with this image that was originally created by Comic artist Mark Brooks. His 2D Drawing was modeled in ZBrush by a fan and got taken to a 3D printer service. Here is a link:
http://diablo2003.deviantart.com/art/Mary-Jane-statue-94487383
After which it was hand painted by another artist to create the final image. A lot of conceptual artists/sculpture have been using this to make some really nice mock up for their work.

[Reason]

Yeah, that's a fine example Neocene. I would say that more and more commercial statue and action figure masters would be produced in this fashion as well. I look forward to the day when DeviantArt has a "Buy 3D Print" option for 3D artwork. Or better yet, when we all have 2D/3D printers on our desktops and we can print anything we want.

[Fett]

This is VERY interesting…

[timmyv]

That 300 dollar price point for a hand painted 8 inch statue is actually really competitive when you consider that raw resin printing services alone can run 150 to 200 dollars just for the print before any paint work. For anyone wanting to go the DIY route instead of paying a painter, https://www.gambody.com/ has been my go to for game accurate STL files for years, especially for characters with tricky mechanical details like Tigersan’s designs. I printed a full figure from their marketplace last winter on my Elegoo Saturn and the pre supported files saved me from about six hours of failed test prints. The catch with that Ownage service is you would still need the original modeler’s permission to sell the physical statue since the STL rights and the physical reproduction rights are two different legal buckets. If Tigersan already sells his files somewhere, you could print it yourself for maybe 40 dollars in resin and then pay a miniature painter 150 dollars to get the same result. That 300 dollar option makes more sense if you do not own a printer or hate sanding layer lines.

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