hi all, I’m an artist exploring the possibility of reproducing sculptures with 3d printing. I’d very much like some info to get started.
What kind of scanner would I need?
I am planning on life size portrait heads.
Would an inexpensive material be paintable?
What price per head am I looking at?
thank you,
David Wooddell
Hi David,
we work with artists and sculptors. Our customers generally come to us with a file of their work that has been scanned. We produce a 3D print and then the artist will cast from it.
We also work closely with Marcin at My 3D twins hub he does scanning and full colour. Or of course you can check us out at Irongiant3d. I would add a link but I’m replying on my phone and not sure how to do it, sorry. If you do contact my 3D twin please mention us.
All the best with your project.
if you have any questions don’t hesitate to ask through our hub.
kind regards,
Nadia
Thanks Nadia, I’m planning on buying a hand scanner. Those work, right? Is it that simple? Can you offer ballpark figures for printing life size heads?
Hi. It depends which hand scanner your buying and how much it costs and what resolution you want. We don’t currently use scanners so I could not say how easy it will be.
As we print in resin it would be very expensive
for us to do them. It would be better to use full colour sandstone available on the my 3D twin hub.
How expensive is very expensive?
Our printer prints in layers of 16 microns so an object of that size would probably take about 60 plus hours to print and cost in excess of £1500
that kind of expensive.
Actually where the same i am also looking for 3d scanner
