Plastics - Any truth to this rumor???

[Frohike]

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I'm new to the whole miniature community. Has anyone tried using some of those rapid-prototype 3-d printers to make minatures? I'm not sure how the price comes out per unit or what size/detail limitations are but the printers are coming down in price.

They are being used to make the masters for a several lines of minis and they can do great detail, but the resulting figure is still very fragile and it can take 8+ hours to 'print' a single mini.

Thus they are useful to make the master for making a mold but are not economical for printing something that goes directly to the table.

That long huh, I take it you mean delicate due to the material used by the 'printer'. Still think its amazing though, and its early doors so just think what this tech will be able to do in 5 or 10 years.