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New decorative 3D figurehead models

Kurt Konrath said:
Looks nice, you should post the ship they go with and scale.
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My thoughts (rightly or wrongly) are that scale is irrelevant, as since they're 3D printable models to be printed... not finished products... you can print them at whatever scale you need. I thought they provided the names of the two ships in their post. BUT, that's not what I would be concerned with. Unless they're printed in resin, getting that level of detail with FDM printing would be extremely challenging and near impossible to pull off... maybe using a .02mm print nozzle and taking advantage of support filament might help. My biggest issue when I see these ads is that they've never (as far as I can tell) actual finished prints. They always seem like 3D modeling computer renderings. Oft times, the renderings can look fabulous, but reality can and does often greatly differ.
 
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