Create Your Own Custom Miniatures by Shapeit
July 17, 2014 by deltagamegirl22
Ok so I am becoming the Queen of Kickstarter game news around here. So, keeping with tradition I bring you yet another Kickstarter campaign. This time we have a new company called Shapeit that is offering a program where you can create your own miniatures.
How this works is that you send them screen shots of the miniature you would like to create and then they make a 3D model and then send it to be printed. By some of the pictures posted on their Kickstarter page, the example miniatures look ok, some better than others and the pricing seems a little steep.
However, I honestly do not know what the manufacturing casts would be. But I cannot see getting an army of figures this way as these are more for custom collectable miniatures. The materials are either plastic for the small and medium figures or gypsum based powder, to which I wonder how durable those will be? So if you are looking for the one of a kind item for your collection you might want to check them out.
Will you be going custom too?
links seem to be broken..
googling gives their site shapeit.io and kickstarter project
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shapeit/bring-your-game-character-to-life-as-a-3d-printed
cool stuff! now where’s my wallet…
Sorry links have been fixed.
A similar project launched a while back. Hero Forge I think will provide a superior product.
http://www.heroforge.com/
Price is a little steep right now, at $43 for a small figure, but people willingly pay that these days for other models that aren’t custom. Still, I don’ think this one will fly.
Not sure about the size of the models. They seem an odd choice.
It not have been better to stick with traditional scales imho
4 cm is betwixt and between. May as well have been 54 mm/ and the other sizes 75 mm/120 mm
Seems quite a bit different from heroforge as i can remember.. shapeit guys would make a custom mini from your own game character or art. Would seem a pretty expenso thing to do by hand though. Not sure how they pull it off, but sounds interesting