Topic: New Scan - Death Dealer by Frazetta
A little over a month ago, I bought a model kit of the Death Dealer. This is the sculpt inspired by Frank Frazettas famous painting. The complete model with base and rider stands over 9" tall.
As I started building it, I though that I should scan it so I can print it later if I wanted to. So I dusted off my EinScan 3D scanner, and started with the horse.
The horse is a little over 6" tall at the top of the neck, and 9.5" long, which posed a problem, as the scanner envelope is just under 8" in diameter and and about 5.5" in height. To add to the problem, the horse's feet/hooves have 3/8" long posts designed to pin it into the base, which I didn't want to cut. Those posts not only add to the height, but also make the model a little wobbly on the turntable.
So I end up using a lot of double face tape on the turntable surface to keep the model from moving. a dozen failed attempts later I finally figured out the best way of scanning this beast. Here are the results of 6 position scans. The beauty of the EinScan software is that it does all the stitching automatically. I also did a separate scan of the head are only. The Head was then "transplanted" to rest of the horse. The only other modification was the bottom of the hooves was cut to remove the posts, not other retouching was done.
The original scan was about 3 million triangles, but got it down to .25%, so it's currently about 750K triangles, and about 35MB in size.
SD3 printer w/too many mods, Printrbot Simple Maker Ed., FormLabs Form 1+
AnyCubic Photon, Shining 3D EinScan-S & Atlas 3D scanners...
...and too much time on my hands.