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How does a person get a figure printed. Can a photo of someone or figure be printed from it? I am looking for some Civil War era figures in 1/24 scale or close to this. Maybe you guys could explain how all of this works...
Thanks , Travis
 
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Thanks Travis. You need a 3D model first. Some of the models can be built from a series of photographs by some companies. I forget exactly who does them. Autodesk used to provide an app that allowed you to take your own series of photos and it would build a model using those images. The model wasn't much more than a blob, but the texture mapping was really good.
 
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BTW, there are also more expensive applications for Kinects (if you have one) that allow you to build a model by moving your Kinects scanner around the object. I tried it, and the conditions you need are so hard to acheive in a regular house that it is worthless. I believe it was called David. If you have plenty of room though, I suppose it can produce a fairly good model, but you have to master the app.
 
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