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[Carnifex125]

I've been around the forums for awhile and have seen many-a-post featuring 3d printed models of Mechs based on the MWO mech models, and with the gorgeous MWO version of the KGC, I would be highly interested in getting a model.

I am curious about how to purchase/commission and get myself a high quality MWO KGC model without stepping on some big legal toes

many thanks for your time and feedback


...just looking at that 6" posable atlas and thinking...... possibilities...

[superteds]

you can pay me.

i won't give you 3d models or anything, but you can just pay me anyway.

[GreyNovember]

There's a thread somewhere in the fanmade section on how to extract the models. Could you not take those and straight print them; granted they wouldn't have articulation?

[Sandpit]

Technically nobody here can charge you to make them. That's a copyright nono

[CocoaJin]

PGI needs to buy a few 3D printers and sell them. I'd buy a few

[Carnifex125]

alas....

oh yeah good point.
Hear that PGI? money makin' opportunities that also make fans so vera happy

Edited by Carnifex125, 16 December 2014 - 07:49 PM.

[Sandpit]

CocoaJin, on 16 December 2014 - 07:44 PM, said:

PGI needs to buy a few 3D printers and sell them. I'd buy a few

They can't
The don't have the license to do that. That's why they never have.

[AEgg]

I don't think PGI has the legal rights to sell figures.

That said, you could buy a 3D printer for around $1000 and print them yourself.

[Carnifex125]

didn't Warcraft offer a service to make and sell models of one's character? could PGI not do that? it would seem to be more of a similar service andless of a "selling table-top figures"

[Sandpit]

Carnifex125, on 16 December 2014 - 07:51 PM, said:

didn't Warcraft offer a service to make and sell models of one's character? could PGI not do that? it would seem to be more of a similar service andless of a "selling table-top figures"

They can't
Another company has the rights to sell the actual figurines and such (Is it still Ral Partha?)

[Carnifex125]

well poop. At least KGC's made it into the game, more than enough to leave me happy

[Risko Vinsheen]

Sandpit, on 16 December 2014 - 07:52 PM, said:

They can't
Another company has the rights to sell the actual figurines and such (Is it still Ral Partha?)

Iron Wind Metals is the current producer of Battletech miniatures.

[Captain Stiffy]

http://www.figureprints.com/

You could buy the mini and paint it like you camo your mech.

[Carnifex125]

its not so much the camo, as much as the awesome geometry Im craving

[Brody319]

If you don't want to 3D print something yourself, I suppose you could look for a 3rd party 3D printing service and give them the models. Just request they be plain white then paint them yourself.

[CocoaJin]

Well crap! Money to made and nobody trying to step up and make it.

[Tezcatli]

Perhaps they could license the art of the MWO models to whoever owns the rights to sell figures?

[Alex Morgaine]

Send the designs to whoever does have minute miniature rights, I think we can all agree some of the older mechs need a less lead pewter/plastic face lift.

Dat phone...

Edited by Frosty Brand, 16 December 2014 - 10:30 PM.