I received the same scanner, but unfortunately, I see it being useful for terrain and bigger minis only, definitely not 28-32 mm scale or warhammer minis. I expected it to scan those with high precision, but was quickly disappointed with the result. Your video, however, gives me some cool ideas - scan everything in your room, shrink it down and make a small diorama of your room! And quirky stuff like that. Great vid guys

It would be cool to see how the bigger figures like the mcfarland or joytoy space marines because then you could do custom poses and shink them down to normal mini size. You can also use this for kit bashes, the joytoy space marines are about the same size as Gunpla kits and other Japanese figures so you can give them some of those types of accessories and scan them to mini sizes.

Last time I was this early inquisitors had terminator armor

Definite really neat idea taking the big boy forgeworld marine and shrinking them down. I imagine you could do similar with a mcfarlane primaris, pose them how you wanna, and then scan them in posed how you want. As for what I'd wanna see scanned next - either taking inquisitor minis and shrinking them to normal 40k scale, or using it to give marines weird properly scaled object to have, like a video game controller, or a nerf gun, or an egg beater.

Jay rolling two D6 over and over by himself really resonated deeply with me.

That Ending.... LMAO!!!!

What a perfect cut at the end! Nick is the true chad. But I still love Jay's monitor.

As an Epic 40K player.. Scan regular 40K figures and try to scale them down to Epic scale. I've been wanting for GW to attack the Epic scale with all their new techniques and materials, but as any fan of GW's stuff know.. it's a waiting and wishing game :)

Omg that ending...you guys are the best

You can take the new Joy Toy Warhammer action figures, scan these in different poses, scale down and print to make a custom posed army!

For a thousand bucks, I better not have to resculpt my models. Technology is no where CLOSE yet.

Washing those Minifigs hit the ground was like watching heresy being committed in a grand Cathedral

Ngl the end was exactly what we expect and yet still 😂

Cool experiments! It could be funny to continue to scan, print, scan, print... until you end up with some amorphous blob and then paint the set as best you can? Would also be fun to see Giga-Gretchin used in a game!

love the interaction of the two individuals and different styles got my sub

Damn I’m impressed. That Grot has no details to begin with so I don’t think it came out too bad!

Love this! Give them a couple of years and it’ll be in a lot of hobby setups. I imagine making miniature prototypes in a higher scale, shrinking them down and you have your own hand sculpted miniature army 🤩 thanks for the detailed breakdown!

Technology like that is way beyond my ken, but that’s pretty fascinating what you were able to capture. That scanner looks like a perfect fit for terrain-replication.

the way the details on the big models gets tighter as it shrinks makes me wonder how good this would be for sculpting your own figure.

EOB, I love your channel. For some reason, people lump you in with youtube drama, but they are completely mistaken. You're basically the Bob Ross of 40k. I don't think I've ever seen you make a video that was anything but positive and encouraging. One suggestion/submission I think would be cool (especially after your water color video) would be to try to paint a mini using only locally sourced pigments. For example, beets stain everything purple, tomatoes make everything red, some leafy greens are just loaded with green chlorophyll that stains your clothes green and so on. Could make for an interesting video where you get all of your painting supplies from a grocery store.

We use 3d scanners at work (definitely on a much larger scale) and it's mostly used to get the size and shape right, then model the rest to get the details correct. Camera matching is an incredibly time consuming and tedious thing to master so scans can cut down the time and headache used to make things exact. I was thinking of getting one of these to scan and model my own custom noise marine army and some other projects like creating figures that never made it to production for some reason but the fans still wanted them. We will see...

What a cool project! Great comparison and showcase of how the technology works. Also love a good Nick episode lol

I find the choice for the miniature of Grand Moff Tarkin interesting as Peter Cushing was full on into miniature. There is even old videos of him painting them.

Ngl, this was a good video to wake up to on my birthday, thanks as always for the awesome content EOB!

I would love a scanner that can accurately scan a sprue from two sides, so that I can print as many of that model as I want.

I played around with meshroom some years ago and got decent results just using my phone camera and tons of photos. It is an art in itself getting good scans of stuff

Always great to see Nick, and his childish humor that ending was perfect LMAO

OMG that grot! If you're looking for a new mascot, you found it. Make a plushy look that goofy and I am buying one. Also, dunyon rings? Love it!

That was wonderful. I felt like I was back in the 1980s watching TVO educational channel. Thanks!

When this comes out I'm looking forward to people using this on discontinued terrain like the wall of martyrs or fortress of redemption

I'm dying , the end, the best!

Get yourself a buddy who is in dental prosthetics. Labs these days tend to have very capable 3d scanners. This seems like a very good way to preserve some of those old rare metal minis.

GW knocking on your door in...3...2... aside from copyrights, 3d scanning is awesome but still has a lot to improve on. will never be able to compare to an artist working in a 3d app or a sculptor.

Nick beat me to it!!! My suggestion was gunna me “mmmaaaa cccccccooo” top video awesome content!! I love the pair of you and always look forward to your videos

Love the ending!

Cool video. Thanks!

I wonder if it might be easier to scan sub-assemblies of a miniature and then join the pieces together in the software of your choosing to get your final STL file. Legs, body, head, torso, arms....attach pins so the parts are "free floating". It would be interesting to test that and see if it helps the process.

Fkn hell you two that was funny as hell and very informative, keep up the amazing work

Fell out of my chair at the end lmao!

What my mind went to is scanning my face and friends and making headswaps for out minis.

And for 1000 dollars and GW prices it will pay for itself with like just 5 models printed

I think that combined with someone who has basic 3d modeling skills, something like this would help alot. Especially as the tech gets better in time its just gonna be another tool in the toolbox. Also worth remembering that software will get better to. There's already phone apps out there that do this with mixed results, eventually this will bridge the gap and make the tech accessible to most people.

That’s an awesome piece of kit. The space marine turned out awesome. Jay as always fantastic paint job!! You guys getting a manta?!?!?!?

This kind of reminds me of the early days of 3d printing, back then I said "I'll see where it is in 5 years" and bought one 3 years later. I'm feeling the same way with this, but I'll need to have a good reason to shell out 1K. EDIT: Holy shit the terrain piece looks great. Citadel terrain is super expensive so if you make a lot of gaming boards or do a lot of terrain, this scanner could pay for itself within a couple years.

The end of this video makes me really excited for the new patreon STLs coming 🤤🤤

At this moment, the technology feel quite rough, but just like 3d printing, im eager to see where it goes, maybe in the future i will be able to a scan of oficial gw models and a 3d printer

That ending just killed me xD

What you want for such small pieces like miniatures is a jewelry scanner. Those are able to scan from all angles with specific near field came in a very high resolution and pixel count. Good ones start at several thousand Euros. The best ones are scanning in a sealed case and can hold the piece in mid air by basically creating an air cushion with several small air jets, they are even able to rotate the piece. So you can get a perfect 3D scan of the piece. However those costs several tenthousand Euros and are actually not easy to use.

We use big versions of those scanners at work to scan the interiors of buildings. They are laser based and scan even small things like keys people leave on tables. Point clouds with billions or trillions of points. Impressive technology!

I think it would be really cool to take a blank miniature and scan it to get the 3D model. Then use said model in something like blender to texture it and apply lighting in order to inform how you paint the miniature. Kinda overkill but I bet with practice you could use it to create some hyper-realistic shading on models.

My brother has a similar scanner for work, he mentioned it would be possible to scan my head and 3d print it scaled down so that I could really lead my army!

still waiting on my scanner i got one on the kickstarter. i would recommend the mini for the price and what it can do is worth the money. i paid about 2 grand for my original scanner and that is 0.1 accuracy this is 0.02. if you want to scan large items ie people or buildings or large objects then i would suggest the pop 1 if your low on cash but if you have spare i would go for the pop 2 for larger items. check out the videos on youtube. also nick if you place the item on its side you can scan again then turn onto its front rescan etc repeat. also. hang the black bag over the side of the table and hold the scanner between your legs or place on a small table. wear the black latex gloves as the scanner cant see the black and rotate the part about in your hands in front of the scanner. i have had a lot of good scans with the pop1 like this. also they are always updating the software. the last 3 updates have improved the quality of the scans no end. anyways you know where i am if you need any advice matey. and i cant wait to get hold of mine and see what i can do with it. :)

The look on Jay's face when he asks if the spray really disappears

Instead of their spray use Tenactin spray (athlete's foot spray). I do some freelance scanning and this will dull down a reflective surface and lighten up dark colours. Also the scanner needs an HDR mode to use multiple exposures to get the light and dark areas (including in the shadows of the crevasse of the models). This would make the entire output much better.

Ok the real question is Nick going to have to up scale his scan?......lol love the content!

PERFECT CUT I WAS THINKING THE EXACT SAME THING

looking forward to this

I love how the scan even picked up the blutak on the space marine.

The end got me lol

That finish though 🤣

i can see this tech going the way of resin printers were at first they were spotty and expensive then extremely detail and cheap looking forward to the future boys

It'd be great to see what ZBrush's claypolish (or other software equiv) can do on these with various settings. It's great at sharpening up plane-changes on doughy models, while averaging out some wobbles on surfaces.

I have a theory that those scaled down imperial space marines that jay painted are gonna look just like his retro space marine army

Now you have a Space Marine Statue you can use on table top as well as a new Grot “Warboss” 🤣

I see the best way of doing this to Buy yourself one of those large posable space marines, pose as you want, scan and print!

Knock knock... Who's there? GW GW wh.... uh oh!

😂😂😂😂 that ending though

Great Vid!

Wow you guys are so skilled and great together. I wish I could let you do something for me

The ending got me

You guys are elite Warhammer hackers! I love it so much!

I never would have dared to spray that sergeant white 🤯 cool product though!

Great ending 😂😂

The way I see 3d scanning at least imo is to 1 help get things like measurements right but I feel that there will be a slight difference in that that can be easily fix and might be just a few mm off, and not to make a super exact copy, like the way I would use it would be to save me some time from sculpting from scratch but I would still go into my 3d software to bring more detail may e even improve on the already detailed figure, I can’t wait to get this scanner now seeing how great it actually is cause again I don’t want it to scan everything 1000% exact I’m willing to work on the details myself too and it gives a lot of details specially is bigger figures which is great

I loved this video, Nick really stepping his game up with the editing Jay being a gem as usual real chefs kiss of an upload and I couldn’t decide what my favorite part was until the very last second “myyy C@C|

This would be an amazing way to bring back 1st edition models.

I bet this scanner is gold for people that can use blender and sharpen all the soft spots! I wonder what it would cost to get someone on Fiver to touch the stl up to snuff after I can it.....

That's kewl.

In fairness thar AT-RT driver is wearing camo so only right the scanner cant see him, it didn't pick up sly marbo either

I bet it'd be particularly good for using things that have solid real world equivalents, because scaling down is going to make the scan better and better. I wonder if you could do something interesting with magnifying glasses now that I think about it...

Even the professional scanners require a spray coat and markers to be accurate, that's pretty impressive

Idk why I yelled when he dropped the Legos 😂

De-mattefying your models will help sharpen the scans. but sharpness is generally hard with none laser based scanners have. AESUB just released there Transparent De-matting vanishing spray if you want to scan color

This technology in a few years will be insane.

Try scanning sprues or parts of models still on sprues. You can later remove them and add supports.

I'd be interested it seeing someone scaling up the planes from areonotica imperialius (I'm sure I misspelled that). Supposedly they were first built at 28mm and scaled down so they should do fine being enlarged!

we're almost at the point where we can clone our own 28mm minis, GW need to be worried

1:47 "So you have chosen, death...."

for small stuff there is jewelry scanner that works great

What about scanning own head, reducing it and putting on on mini ? Maybe instead of turning head, make contraption to rotate scanner around it.

The ending lol

Maybe take some of the Star Wars toys and scan them and scale them to Legion Scale.

Hey man, as a content creator, you properly have all the kit to make 10X better scans via photogrammetry. The setup you use to record painting would be perfect 👍

Why did I know what Nick was going to scan next before he started to say it? Anyway- neato vid dudes! For the cheaper folks out there, there is a way to do something similar (with less stellar results) by using an Xbox 360 Kinect sensor- my wife's uncle did it and its... neat? Something to try if you get bored.

The best set is still a jewelers scanner (Thunk3D).

I love how Nick used the gloomspite gitz box

I think the Einscan-SP would be actually capable of scanning 28-32mm scale mini's but it's also double the price .

Interesting tech.

Wooooooo new nick’s pp stl for the patreon!

18:34 Crazy what you can tickle out with a good paintjob.