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[mic-art]

I just got a tip on a website where you can design your own figure in 3d and then print it out. It seems to be mostly for wargaming, but perhaps with some tweaking they will make do. Anyone have experience with it?

Check it out at desktophero3d.com.

[Dziadeczek]

21 hours ago, SELtd. said:

I am drawing on the collective knowledge here...I am looking for a figure of a ships captain, possible a fisherman, in foul weather gear at the wheel. I can work with a scale anywhere from 1/87 to 1/48th. I am more of a model railroader and want to use this figure as a memorial statue in the "quaint, touristy fishing village" I have planed for the sea side expansion of the layout. Any leads would be greatly apperciated!  TIA!

You mean like this one?

https://www.dailybreeze.com/2017/12/08/out-with-the-old-ports-o-call-transition-sparks-angst-and-confusion-on-eve-of-demolition/

[SELtd.]

Dz.....that is on the money in regard to pose....his was my reference, Bronze bookends from the 30's

[Chidokan]

for Napoleonic figures, try a firm called Historex…  parts are capable of mixing up and its quite easy to knock up a ships captain with not a lot of work...

WW2 you can get Italeri crew for German, USA and British navy. Masterbox and others do mechanics etc that would convert nicely if you wanted to do a port scene...

 

I managed to get some figures for my Victory x-section cannon crew in 1/96 from a wargames figure supplier, close enough in 15mm. I just wish the manufacturers would stick to a set scale, as otherwise its not a viable  commercial venture to produce figures for many periods in so many different scales!

[wefalck]

Manufacturers do stick to set scales, but different areas of modelling (for historic reasons) prefer different scales.

 

1/120 is the gauge TT railway scale and approximately that of the 15 mm wargaming scale

 

1/96 is half of 1/48 and close to the gauge HO railway scale (1/87); close to the coomon ship model scale of 1/100 in continental Europe

 

1/72 is a common scale for model soldiers in (soft) plastic, model aircraft, and close to the OO railway scale (1/76)

 

1/60 is the scale of the 30 mm flat model soldiers and also used for some ship models

 

1/48 is the classical gauge O railway scale, commonly used for military and aircraft models; ship model in continental Europe are 1/50 scale

 

1/32 is the classical model railway gauge 1 (or 7 mm) and model soldier scale and also used for military and aircraft models

 

 

[kearnold]

On 3/6/2013 at 5:07 PM, probablynot said:

Yeah, I'm looking too.  In my case it's 1:35, so 2 inches would be just nice.

I need 1:54 scale.

 

[wefalck]

Does not exist.

 

The closest is 1:60, but commercially there are only the classical flat tin-soldiers as far as I am aware. I know this, as I built a couple of models in that scale and was never able to crew them - my sculpting capabilities are not that good.

 

Until some 25 years ago there was a Swedish company Rose Miniatures that also made 30 mm 3D-figures.

 

Some of the 'war-gaming' figures might work, but they are nominally 25 mm. I think the figures of Perry Miniatures (https://www.perry-miniatures.com) are nominally 28 mm, which translates to 5" in a 1:54 scale - still a bit on the small side. 

 

One has to scan their range to see, whether any figures for conversion into marine civilians would be available. Personally, I am not very fond of the war-gaming figures, as for some reason they are always chubby, almost cartoon-like representations with too big hands and feet.

Edited November 8, 2021 by wefalck

[mtaylor]

You might do a search on some of the 3-D printing sites that offer figures.   If I'm recalling correctly, they can be scaled but probably cost extra.

[wefalck]

The 3D-printing files have to be set-up for each scale separately, so these sites only offer printing at set scales.

 

In principle, something along these lines is useful: https://www.heroforge.com.

 

[mtaylor]

5 minutes ago, wefalck said:

The 3D-printing files have to be set-up for each scale separately, so these sites only offer printing at set scales.

 

In principle, something along these lines is useful: https://www.heroforge.com.

 

I wasn't aware of that and made an assumption (bad thing).   

[Lieste]

I routinely print models 'offscale' For minor tweaks in scale, the printability isn't significantly affected, and can just be tweaked to give the appropriate dimension.

When upscaling, the detail becomes rather 'soft' and can look oversized if taken too far, but generally there is no limit to the amount of upscaling you can perform if the degree of softness is acceptable.

When downscaling fine details can become unprintable 'as is', however if dimensions are mutable, the slicer can add a 'hair' of horizontal expansion to retain printable minor walls, and I routinely print models with an intended scale of 1:72 or 1:100 down to 1:330 with few problems, as well as 1:700 to 1:1000 and 1:2973.

It is likely that a model generated explicitly for the target scale might print with a better result - but there is a broad range of printable scales for any single model where it will print, with broadly acceptable results.

[Borden]

Build is 1:48 scale fishing boat, interested in what you have.

Thanks in advance 

Borden

[Casey]

 

 

 

I found this in MEGA Hobby Web site , hope it helps

[paul ron]

On 3/29/2022 at 7:42 PM, Casey said:

https://www.megahobby.com/categories/figure-models/1-72-scale-figures/late-1800s-and-early-1900s.html

i found a link to mega hobby. they have lots of nice stuff.

Edited March 7 by paul ron

[JimO]

I have thought of sculpting  some figures in soft clay and then scan them to print on a 3D printer. I started one figure of a french sailor pulling on rigging and after photo scanning can then bend it into different poses. I will then do others as gun crew, officers and powder monkeys. Just need to get a 3D printer and program to set scale. 

On 11/18/2024 at 11:26 PM, JimO said:

Hello from the Great White North (yes we just got our first big snow of the season) of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. I had hoped to have received my second sail ship (first was the Golden Hind) but first real challenging build by now, but it is late in delivery and now longer due to a new postal strike. Grrrr. The ship ordered is one I have wanted for a number of years now is the Heller 1/100 scale le soleil royal. I wanted to do a wood build but I decided to start small and do a plastic model with some modifications. Being retired now for 11 years I have the time and a room to do it in without the wife always saying “clean up your mess”.

I plan on making it similar to John Otts version but with a slight difference. I ordered a pair of books on rigging from amazon which should be here tomorrow but meanwhile I am going to work on something else to pass the time.

 

I want to man/crew the ship but have looked all over the internet etc for figures, figures not just to match up with a sailing ship but a ship of the SRs time period without too much modification and to scale….but alas no such luck.

 

I am a bit of an artist and did some sculptures years ago in art college, so I am thinking, why not sculpt some figures from pictures, scan them, and then print them off on a 3D printer.

I will make several figures ranging from Admiral Tourville, a few officers, powder monkeys, and different gun crews both in action and at rest. Included will be crew members on deck and up in the rigging….or on the “head?”. 
Here is a question for those in the know….. did the french ships in 17th century have a company of “french marines” for things like defensive action and boardings?  Since I will be using soft modeling clay I will be able to twist most of the figures into different poses between scans. Saves on making 50 different figures, and not most in the same pose.