06-22-2012, 01:03 PM
Long-time lurker, first-time poster here (have I really never posted anything on this forum before?...weird)...
One application I'd like to see from the 3-D printing technology is better scale human figures. One of the dead giveaways of a model scene has long been the unrealistic-looking plastic people. The Preiser ones are maybe the most realistic out there now, but even those are often in unnatural postures that don't look realistic. It would be neat if you could dress a real person up in a real engineer outfit (for example), then have them strike a pose for a 3-D scanner, which would use a 3-D printer to replicate their body in HO scale. If the resolution were good enough, it should make for a very realistic figure and you could have a virutually infinite variety of characters and poses.
One application I'd like to see from the 3-D printing technology is better scale human figures. One of the dead giveaways of a model scene has long been the unrealistic-looking plastic people. The Preiser ones are maybe the most realistic out there now, but even those are often in unnatural postures that don't look realistic. It would be neat if you could dress a real person up in a real engineer outfit (for example), then have them strike a pose for a 3-D scanner, which would use a 3-D printer to replicate their body in HO scale. If the resolution were good enough, it should make for a very realistic figure and you could have a virutually infinite variety of characters and poses.
Dan