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Fully customized looks / armor / weapon / pose.

3D scanned , printed in color , comes with display base and dome for $129

Seems like a very amazing standard to have.




http://www.figureprints.com/Default.aspx

Best discussed elsewhere methinks...

Don't see it ever happening, simply because the quality of a normal GW model >>>>>>>>>>>> quality of an even more expensive figure print.

They are really quite awful by wargamming standards - I can't see there being much of a market in the community to make it worthwhile to boot.

The reason they look like that is because they are direct prints of ingame characters. Hence the polygon look.

Also they dont have to come painted :'o

Its worth considering , its cheap , its customizable ( imagine ordering your FW minis , already assembled , and posed to your choice )

When 3D printing gets better and cheaper, I can see companies starting to use them a lot more, possibly even giving customers the ability to pose models, change their weapons, equipment, perhaps even paint jobs etc online before ordering and printing them.

Should bring in a rather cool age of model design and wargaming, though at the same time, kind of ruin the whole painting and modelling aspect of the game if it becomes widespread enough

LunaHound wrote:The reason they look like that is because they are direct prints of ingame characters. Hence the polygon look.

Also they dont have to come painted :'o

Its worth considering , its cheap , its customizable ( imagine ordering your FW minis , already assembled , and posed to your choice )

I own two of these. The reason they look like 'that' is because they use a lot of post processing on the picture to smooth and enhance it.

The quality of figure prints is beyond poor by wargaming standards, period, especially given their size.

These figure prints are on the lower end of the scale as far as rapid prototyping technology is concerned, and even the high end is not up to snuff for wargame standards.

Money money money.

Since GW wouldn't outsource anything like this they would have to heavily invest in 3d printers whilst they have plastic and resin moulding i wouldnt see this happening.

A collectors line could be good but they would need exposure to markets outside their traditional sphere to push a range like this.

asmith wrote:These figure prints are on the lower end of the scale as far as rapid prototyping technology is concerned, and even the high end is not up to snuff for wargame standards.

The high end stuff is used in medical prototyping and is actually very good - it is just orders of magnitude more expensive than the commercial 3D printers of the sort that will have been used for the models above

I've played with fairly complex devices that were printed out "built" that had moving parts, interlocking mechanisms etc. Also seen some surgical guides which were indistinguishable from their moulded counterparts.

SilverMK2 wrote:

asmith wrote:These figure prints are on the lower end of the scale as far as rapid prototyping technology is concerned, and even the high end is not up to snuff for wargame standards.

The high end stuff is used in medical prototyping and is actually very good - it is just orders of magnitude more expensive than the commercial 3D printers of the sort that will have been used for the models above

I've played with fairly complex devices that were printed out "built" that had moving parts, interlocking mechanisms etc. Also seen some surgical guides which were indistinguishable from their moulded counterparts.

Yeah, they need to print out a new right knee for me.

@ silver - organic shapes are a different entity from functional parts. I use the high end stuff all the time for work, even with the best the resolution and surface detail is not as nice as you would like. For most things that have larger surfaces they work out great, and larger surfaces are easier to sand or otherwise finish as well. For wargames figures the smooth faces you would like to see are on the order of the resolution of the process, which means you are washing out surface feature and detail.

seeing this, I envision the future... where you sit down at your computer, use a 3D modeling tool with supplied GW software to create a character in the pose / armor / weapons you want, and then send it off to the GW factory for manufacture...

damn sexy looking future it is.

Technology is still new. Very Expensive. Defeats the purpose of model war gaming IMO. Cute Novelty. Not very effective....

...will be the death of us all!!!