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Hello Paizo community! Man its been a while since I've posted here, almost three and a half years!
What I'm posting was a question to the Paizo community, would you be interested in custom mini-figures of your characters? I know lots of gamers, me included, have commissioned artists to create portraits and origional art of characters that we have fallen in love with. What I can offer is custom mini-figures of custom characters that you can use in your gaming sessions or to display.
A little about how the models that will be created. The models will be created with Autodesk Maya and Pixologic Zbrush, but thats just the digital side. To give you a "hold in your hand" version of your favorite character I will turn to either Shapeways or iMaterialize, both are fantastic 3D printing companies that I have worked with before and offer fantastic quality and the detail of the finished models is astounding. A plus to custom characters like this is I can make you into the "elven archer", adding a little personalization to your character
Let me know if you would be interested in this! Please let me know if you have any comments, questions, poo and rotten veggies to fling.....
Check out my work at my personal website and my DevArt account
What would the costs involved be?
I'm not quite sure what the prices involved would be, I know 3d printing a model the size of a mini-figure would not be all that much. How much would you expect to pay for something like this?
Another plus to 3d printing mini-figures is you can get them in lots of different materials!
Shapeways Materials
iMaterialize Materials
Click on each of the materials shown on the website to see examples of what it looks like printed.
Heh, I dunno. I figured since you were offering you'd have an idea of how much it would take to sculpt, print and paint it. I'm definately interested...
I paid around 150 for a figureprint of a WOW character of mine, but its 5-7 inches tall, on a base under glass. This is for display and not for use. Paid that much because it was a new thing and it would be a cool conversation piece.
For a 1 1/2 inch tall fig to be used as long as the character for it lived, I dunno. You can usually buy a reaper fig for 8-9 bucks and get it painted or do it yourself for about 15-20.
So, yeah. I guess if I were to go out and buy a fig it'd be 23-29 bucks.
I'd be interested as well.
but the price would have to be around $20-30. You'd definitely will have takers.
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Usually miniature wargames range miniatures go from 25-28mm (warhammer style) then they jump to 54mm, but the usual size is 25-28mm.
A single model figure (hero/commander) goes for around 15+tax+shipping. a box of around 10 figures goes for about 25-30dls +tax+shipping (usually grunt troopers of sorts).
Well it's just my two cents as a miniature wargamer of what I roughly spend on a figure. That is if I don't buy it at ebay for less.
Now vehicles are also priced differently like transports and tanks are 30-40dls+tax+shipping.
Usually miniature wargames range miniatures go from 25-28mm (warhammer style) then they jump to 54mm, but the usual size is 25-28mm.
A single model figure (hero/commander) goes for around 15+tax+shipping. a box of around 10 figures goes for about 25-30dls +tax+shipping (usually grunt troopers of sorts).
Well it's just my two cents as a miniature wargamer of what I roughly spend on a figure. That is if I don't buy it at ebay for less.
Now vehicles are also priced differently like transports and tanks are 30-40dls+tax+shipping.
Those definitely are Warhammer prices. Most people don't use GW models to represent their characters.
If you have an FLGS, you should be able to get a good Reaper RPG-style fig for $5, or a small troop for about $13. Yes, if you want a Space Marine Sgt to represent your Pathfinder character, you can pay upwards of $30, but I can't imagine anybody but a Warhammer player wanting to do that.
If you cannot paint it yourself, that is where some money comes into it. That service can range anywhere from tabletop quality (around $15 - $20) to somebody like Merike Reimer, who can paint it up to a quality where you'd never want to ever touch the thing with your bare hands ($300 - $400).
I do this for a living, believe it or not. I regularly sell single models like a knight in armor or wizard in robes for as low as $10 each at conventions. Some models might run $15 - $20 depending on my cost from my wholesaler, and whether I have spent a little more time on it.
Point is, it probably is still more cost effective, in terms of price, time and effort, to pick something out from the Reaper site, and ask a cheaper service to buy, convert and paint it for you. I imagine the 3D modeling thing will get cheaper and faster over time, though. And, obviously, if you want something that matches your vision 100%, not to mention having your face on it, then 3D modeling might be worth it.
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Warhammer fantasy was what I was thinking about by the way.
I also know about reaper minis, but I was talking about the highest price in miniatures with quality.
I could also have said warmachine and its respective prices, but my point was that is as much as people would probably go as to buying a figure, since warhammer is the most expensive miniatures in the 25mm-28mm range (unless someone is more expensive and I don't know).
I totally agree that is well worth it.
Many of Reaper's minis are easily on par with GW, quality wise. And moreover, many of GW's sculpts are blocky and unrealistic, yet still high priced. Personally, I am a bigger fan of Warmahordes, since the price is somewhere between Reaper and GW, but the quality is often better than both.
As to things more expensive than GW (or its offspring companies like Forge World) a lot of the CMON stuff is fairly well overpriced for the quality, as is the Anima: Tactics stuff. Those are pretty well through the roof, though sometimes better quality than GW. Don't know if that makes it worth it, though.
Looking at Cmh's links, I'd say the price for the dragon is on par with other lines, depending on how big it is (it would have to be Huge size in Pathfinder terms to be equivalent, and I would need to see the detail on the finished product), but I would never pay $21 for a minotaur on a Medium or Large base. (Unless it was a Beastman from GW and the client had paid me partially up-front.)
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Well then you should take the Warmahordes price as a base line just do it similar to what custom painters price it bu you do it for making the mini.
Just going to make up some prices for you to add your Commission fee I suppose. This is just an idea you can polish.
Medium/small size creature = 5dls
Large size creature = 10dls
Huge size creature = 15dls
Vehicle Medium = 10dls
Vehicle large = 15dls
Extra details = 3dls
Commission = 10dls
Total = Commision + Mini size (+ extra details)
Just an idea lol figures I work doing small business projects hahahaha gets my mind going sorry.
G'day,
My name is Ben Morton. I create RPG character portraits and I make custom minis to order, either fully sculpted or converted from existing parts in my collection. I typically charge $35 AU for a standard 28mm scale mini unpainted (not including postage). I charge more for unusual characters (oddly shaped bodies or uncommon sizes) Please let me know if I can be of service to anyone.
you can see some of my previous work at www.immortalise.com.au