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Old 08-03-2016 | 03:07 PM
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Originally Posted by cartix
This guy has some good figures.

http://www.shapeways.com/shops/panzervstanks
I've purchased several of his figures sets so far. I've got 1/144 scale USN flight deck crew for my USS Guadalcanal. I bought some 1/24 scale USN PT boat crew for my PT-141. I have a couple of his USCG crewmembers for my 1/16 scale Dumas USCG 36' Motor Lifeboat.

Luis is the guy behind this. If you see something you want, just email him and ask. For example, I asked if he could take his 1/24 PT boat figure, lose the sidearm and steel helmet, and to scale him to 1/16 scale. A couple of weeks later, the 1/16 USCG figures were in his Shapeways shop!

You do want to pay attention to which material the figures are printed in. Some of them are a little "jaggy" looking, sorta like pictures on a low-resolution dot matrix printer. But even so, the figures look a heck of lot better when painted up than any converted toy figure.