3d Printing a scaled down statue

3D Printing of a Laser scanned wooden statue, 1meter tall, scaled down and printed on our Zcorp Z450 3d Printer.
Rapido3d, London based laser scanning, 3D Printing, and Large CNC machining. http://www.rapido3d.co.uk

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[ratlsd]

how hard is the product? will it break?

[Rapido3d]

@ratlsd It depends on what the model is soaked in after printing, it can be soaked in different resins or even wax, if you wanted to polish and finish the model then it would be ideal to soak it in wax, if you wanted to paint it or plate it then you would most likely choose a harder resin.

[ChrisD4335]

seems like it would be more practical to use this technology to make a mold so that you can cast the statue out of better material.

[Rapido3d]

@ChrisD4335 Did you think that we were printing them as final statues then? Of course we use them to make moulds.........

[Pieishman]

does it recycle the un used material?

[Rapido3d]

@Pieishman Yes

[Rapido3d]

The Model was 180mm tall (7 Inches) and it took about 12 hours to print, I find it amusing how we can accept a sculptor taking weeks to sculpt something like this, but as soon as a machine is involved we expect it to be instant. :)

[Rapido3d]

@Mootuntbaboon If you can sculpt this in a couple of hours, email me I have lots of work for you.

[Wololo41]

wow i can print then game statues like dragonborn from skyrim and things like that

[veson231]

Just think, once this gets more advanced and available to the public, you can simply print almost anything you may need. With the exception of wood and other items. Very cool.

[janl95961]

Jan@gmail, This was just sent to me by a friend and I am blown away by it. It is the most amazing thing I have ever seen. Thanks for a lesson in what may be our future.

Like I said amazing and awsome.

[cwegers1]

@wirog88 The more things become automated , the more hand made things will be loved . Besides, you need the sculpture first before you can replicate it . You can already cast this kind of stuff in a million different ways.

[AnimeBrowny]

WOOOOOWWW I could print whole anime figures with that i would be in heaven if i have a thing like that

[Fiercefighter2]

@Rapido3d plus people will always be doing it by hand for the art of it. just like how some people take up calligraphy

[timewaster6991]

@Rapido3d hopefully