3d scanned figurines printed full colour off-site?

[swoop_ds]

I'm looking into offering a service with my photography business where I 3d scan a person, couple, or family and then get them a miniature figurine printed. I am wondering if there is an online service that I could just upload the files to and then be sent the product. Basically, if I can get the 3d prints decent on my own, I'd still need to paint them and there's no way I could do it justice.

I'm also not sure what a realistic price I would charge for this so that I'd make a bit of money.

[Placebo]

3D Systems offers that.

http://cubify.com/en/Store/StarTrek

[swoop_ds]

Thanks Placebo. That gets me part of the way there but I'm looking for full body miniatures, not something that they just paste heads onto. (although the wedding ones are very close to what I need)

[curious aardvark]

it'd probably be easier and cheaper to find a local artist to paint the figures and print them yourself.

[awerby]

The Sense scanner from 3D Systems does a pretty good job on full-body scans, especially if you plan to reproduce them in miniature, which concentrates the detail. It captures the color of the people and their clothing, so you won't need to paint them if you use a color-capable 3D printer to produce them. It helps a lot to put the people on a turntable when scanning them, and to provide good illumination. The cheapest service bureau for color 3D printing (in "sandstone") is probably Shapeways. They aren't fast, though.. I'd suggest sending them a sample scan and seeing how much they charge. It's not going to be cheap, because the materials are expensive. Here's a store in Berkeley CA that's doing what you're talking about: http://web.twindom.com/

Andrew Werby

[bshadown]

as far as i know they can be expesive from shapeways, something around a 100 bucks per figurine, but they are mostly done on powder-base printers, yes they can get nice color, but they wont last long at least from what i have seen

[Geoff]

Maybe check all these sites out that do a similar thing, they might use an offsite service too

https://www.google.com.au/?gws_rd=cr...nned+figurines

[cokreeate]

We can do that for you.
Check us out.

www.cokreeate.com

[Geoff]

We can do that for you.
Check us out.

www.cokreeate.com

Lucky you didn't put a 'C' in that title! otherwise you would have the porn industry knocking at your door.

[cokreeate]

Lucky you didn't put a 'C' in that title! otherwise you would have the porn industry knocking at your door.

We don't mind them knocking at our door as long as they're here to get 3d scanned and printed hahaha