PSR reviews 3D printed figures

[davbenbak1]

Just a heads up. PSR has reviewed their first box of 3D printed figures and gave them 10's in every category. I've always wondered when the technology would catch up. Although these come in a box set, can you imagine ordering by figure? No wasted poses. Ordering as many or as few officers and standard bearers as you want.

[MikeRC97]

I'm going to get a 3-D printer so I can make my own WWII Germans, they are very difficult to find in 1/72. Just kidding.

In all seriousness I do think that this technology could be a game changer for the hobby. Injection molded plastic figures (using steel molds) are still a very expensive to produce, 3-D printing could eliminate that issue and allow smaller manufacturers to start producing hard resin figure sets that would never have been financially feasible in the past.

I know many of these subject are covered in 20mm metal but those are generally too chunky for me, I prefer the natural proportions of 1/72 figures - very possible using digital design and 3-D printing.

I'm very excited by the possibilities, hopefully we see more manufacturers and more products on the market soon.

[Wiking]

Thank`s for the Info davenbak1.

I use 3D (Shapeways) figures since last year.
Examples:
Cross the Finish line. (Figures in the crowd or the man who lost the French flag.)
Royal Australian Navy in japanese controlled water 1945. (The "blue" man left beside the board game.)
Different pose of the figure set you can get and like Mike´RC97 said: "natural proportions of 1/72 figures".
For my taste very usefull.

REED OAK is an other great (but very pricy) 3D figures manufacturer.

[Paul]

The Reedoak ones are scarerily realistic..and pricey (1/72nd on the right)..all three would cost 23.97p (€30.48)..without P&P.

[MikeRC97]

Right now cost is the biggest obstacle to 3D printed figures but as the hardware becomes more common and awareness of these products increases (and the PSR review should help significantly) the number of buyers is likely to increase, once that happens these small manufacturers can start adjusting prices to increase volume OR someone else will come along who will - just look at what PSC did with 15mm WWII and how Battlefront had to respond.

Paul those figures are wonderful btw, do they come with any mold lines? I've never seen a 3D printed object in person. One of the drawbacks of resin figures is the clean up (resin dust inhalation is a serious danger and proper equipment should be used), I'm guessing that's a non-issue with 3D printed figures.

[Misteredd]

What equipment is needed to produce ones own figure sets?

[Bluefalchion]

No mold lines because there is no mold. I think the future is here.

[Peter]

No mold lines because there is no mold. I think the future is here.

Could be, but then the price must go down! Now they are to expencive!

[Zed1]

I'm a bit unsure about that stuff on PSR - by looking at the transparent raw IDF soldiers, I cannot judge if they're good or bad just because one cannot see any details on that picture. But the painted version looks... well... not too convincing. Certainly not enough for a 10 in every cathegory. Btw - if they now give out total-10s for every 3D set, they will be over and done sooner or later.

Well. On the one hand, painters want figures as realistic as can be. Which requires painting them as realistic as can be. But as not all painters are capable of doing so, even brilliant figures don't reach the original when being painted in a bad way. Or you quick-paint bunches of figures for wargaming reasons, never reaching a painting quality as good as can be. In which way the high price of the figures does neither justify the painted result, nor the ration between price and mass. Not-so-realistic figures often cover that circumstance by their overall appearance. Question is: what do you want?

Whatever it is, I will never buy figures for that price. It's even expensive enough buying metal figures where you sometimes have prices between 1 and 2 Euro per figure.

[Paul]

What equipment is needed to produce ones own figure sets?

Seeing as the ones who "made" the IDF bods (panzers versus tanks) are using Shapeways printing Service..then the one Shapeways uses..and the one´s they use aint cheap...in fact, they are eyewateringly expensive...I´m quite certain None of us could afford one...
Stratasys FDM 400mc
http://www.aniwaa.com/product/3d-printe ... tus-400mc/


PS;.all of Panzer V Tanks 1/72nd products here
http://www.shapeways.com/shops/panzervs ... +Scale&s=0
Click on one of the products and you can get a 3D Viewer of them..like this Roman Testudo
http://www.shapeways.com/shops/panzervs ... +Scale&s=0
Look underneath and tell me it wouldn´t (using the hollow construction method he´s used) to create a Roman Testudo at way less cost...like I did here
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1681&p=16300&hilit=Red+tortoise+versus+blue+tortoise#p16300

[mickey mouse]

Is there any link for reed oak?

[Paul]

Well. On the one hand, painters want figures as realistic as can be. Which requires painting them as realistic as can be. But as not all painters are capable of doing so, even brilliant figures don't reach the original when being painted in a bad way.

True, One has to be as good as Štěpán to bring out the Detail..(Bottom right pic are two Reedoak bods)
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... 289&type=3

[Paul]

Is there any link for reed oak?

http://reedoak.com/#!/Figures-figurines ... ort=normal

[Zed1]

Dunno what looks more like Zombies...
the real Zombies... http://www.shapeways.com/product/ECL6LWGWZ/1-72-male-zombie-set?optionId=56457915
Or the 15 businessmen in suites... http://www.shapeways.com/product/T38FSCJS5/1-72-man-in-suit-w-briefcase-set?optionId=60054178

Splendid figz, no matter what. And sure, Paul - one has to be a master to get all of them details out. Surely nothing for me to try, so I better keep those 30+ bucks in my pocket.
But if only masters buy them, prices won't get cheaper anytime soon.

[Paul]

The 15 man in suits..add sunglasses = Jackson, Johnson, and Thompson....and er? ..Billy, Bobby, Arthur, Johnny, Fred, Jack, Alfred, Alan, Dave, Brian, William and Pete ?

[Paul]

...and why bother with overpriced 3D see through bods when there´s enough already...?
Modern Israeli Defence Force
http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=1388
and the MM bods
http://www.model-miniature.com/category ... ategory=46
and MM do a heap of vehicles for the IDF
http://www.model-miniature.com/category ... ategory=32
http://www.model-miniature.com/category ... ategory=31

[Xantippos]

Maybe it will be the future, but at their current price, and at least these ones in particular, their heads seem too big and their arms too small. Maybe they have 100% realistic poses, and they can achieve any movement which a normal mould will never do, but I don't see them very nice.

It is amazing as how the 3d printing technology has advanced. In theory, if everything advances as it should, in 15 years or so nearly all soldiers bought will be 3d printed. But with these you never know, maybe in 4 years everybody at home has it's super state-of-the-art 3d printer, or maybe it ends like the electric cars, which in many places of the world they are less than 5 % and they should have been here since the mid-1990s.

[Wiking]

@ mickey mouse

The way I go is:
http://www.reedoak.com

[Wiking]

Oh!
Paul have already done.