I think this is the best forum category for this type of post as it is "WoW-related and pertaining to subjects of shared interest",
if not please lock it and my apologies.
At any rate, this looked interesting enough to share.


The full story and some more relative links here.

Starting 11 december, an american company named figureprints claims to start shipping miniature figurines of your very own wow characters. Images in the bottom.
The site claims that they can make the 3D models based on your armory profile (Pray that it's updated).

Now, i'm not usually into the geek gear and toys, but this i could agree to buying for sure. And I don't think i'm the only one.
It seems legit, and endoresed by blizzard.





The colors are somewhat average, but that's to be expected if it's a fully automated process.
The printer they used is either the http://www.zcorp.com/Products/3D-Pri...155/spage.aspx, estimated value about $50.000 Or the $20.000 version, not sure.
Sadly i don't have such cash lying around myself.

Ah exellent.
I don't have sound on this computer so haven't been able to actually "hear" the demo movie myself yet.

Wow, that's really cool. I can see myself getting one of those things, although that really is geek extraordinaire. Pity they don't ship to Europe yet though

Wonder if they even support non-US wow. Would be nice to have a little Tanoh on my desk.

Edit: What I meant, they claim to pull the info from Blizzard themselves, maybe they just got a deal for the US servers and hence can't and/or aren't allowed to do it for EU and Asia.

I could see problems coming up when armory would bug out, causing it to not show some pieces of gear. This would only be a problem when the system would be automated, hopefully this won't be the case. Furthermore, I'd definetely buy one, although I would have to get some better gear first then though Oo

I don't think they're using the armoury as they can't get character model details or what gear you have in your bag from there. It says somewhere that Blizzard have given the direct access to character data or something to that effect.

Taken from FigurePrints - FAQ

Nice idea, but I wonder how good things like Paladin Season3 head will look.

Thanks Saeros, should have given the site a thorough read, but lacked the time to do so. If someone from EJ forums has/going to get one, mind posting a picture of it? Would like to see some more of it.

Any idea how it renders models with translucence, like [Apostle of Argus]?

[Greatsword of Horrid Dreams] is partially transparent as well.
As is the crossbow of the drarf in that first picture.


I'm not sure how floating items, such as headgear, or halos would end up being shown.
I'd guess the so called artist would add some support lines.
Weapon glows can't really be added either.

This looks awesome!

I'd love to get a model of June back pre-TBC, in her mix of Dragon- and Cryptstalker, with the crossbow of smiting, as opposed to her as she is atm, in mix of kara/t4 and horrid t5