Greetings!

[SoaringSentinel]

Hey everyone,

I'm not much of a pony collector but I have a few friends that are and I love the G4 Cartoon. I am however a big action figure collector of various franchises.
I'm also a CG artist for video games and have a lot of experience working with 3d printers. So recently I started making my own figures. and by populair suggestion by my friends I'm currently working on my first pony figure and i was hoping it could share my progress here among people who are probably a lot more knowledgeable about MLP figures than I am

[kiwimlp]

Hi SoaringSentenial

What kind of action figures do you collect?  I have quite a few myself and my brother is a huge collector of many different franchises.  LOTR, SW, X-Men, TWD, GoT...

I can't wait to see your custom ponies

[SoaringSentinel]

I'm not a one franchise kind of guy when it comes to collecting. mostly it's a matter of i get the main character or a few of the characters i think are cool in any particular franchises. i have several of the playarts figures from halo and mass effect. I also have some gundam Gunpla kits. a ton of Disney infinity figures. Just whatever catches my fancy really.

I'll be making a thread in the arts section of the forum for it but here's a sneak peek of what i'm working on right now. It's a fully articulated figure of princess Luna. she stands 10 inches tall
http://sentinel373.deviantart.com/art/Princess-Luna-1-7th-scale-action-figure-poses-496584090

and here's the 3d printed prototype (She's still missing a few pieces so i can't assemble the legs yet.)
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[achab1984]

Welcome to the arena

[Spinky69er]

Welcome to the Arena

Look forward to seeing Luna's progress

[SpookyTrees]

Wow very cool!!! Welcome to the Arena!!

[robinharper]

Is that Gundam Wing I spot?!

And welcome of course!  May many beautiful Pony's come to life through you!

Hugs
  Robin

[SoaringSentinel]

Thank you all for the kind welcomes

@robinharper. Actualy no, that is the Strike Gundam with the aile flight pack from Gundam seed. but yes it is a Gundam

[h1m3.]

Welcome!

OMG so cool Luna figure! I'm looking foward seeing your work in the arena .
Also there is lot of collectors that collect something else than just ponies so I'm sure you will find this forum really fun . Enjoy!

[Bekuno]

Hiya, SoaringSentinel! Welcome to the arena!

I saw your progress thread for your Luna figure, I'm extremely impressed! I can't wait to see what she looks like when the rest of the pieces come in. Enjoy the forums!

[robinharper]

"Actualy no, that is the Strike Gundam with the aile flight pack from Gundam seed. but yes it is a Gundam "

Ah, I do amdit that I suck at keeping them all apart.     There are so many Gundam series out there.  Gundam Wings is one of my favourite ones though, 

But yeah!  GUNDAM!!!!

Hugs
  Robin

[hathorcat]

Welcome to the Arena I spotted your thread over in Art and your work is lovely! I hope you enjoy the boards.

[Diamond]

Welcome to the Arena.  I might need to ask a few questions in regards to 3-D printing as my daughter Robotics team just won a 3-D printer and I already have plans for making model horses so gonna need to find out what software and such for them and me.  Your work is super.

[SoaringSentinel]

Thank you and Congrats with your daughter winning a 3d printer. Feel free to ask whatever you like, I'll answer what I can.
It's a great hobby but it can get kind of complex once you get to the nitty gritty

The software i'm using is called Autodesk Maya. But it's a professional software package mainly used for video games and visual effects in movies. (also it's 4000 dollars) Unless you or your daughter is already familiar with 3d modeling I'd recommend starting out with blender 3d. You can get it here: http://www.blender.org/
It's free and for the purposes of 3d printing it can do the job just as well as Maya. Another program I'd recommend getting is Netfabb. this program will let you check your model for print ability, wall thickness size etc. (there is a paid version but for the purposes of checking your 3d models the free version works just fine. however every 3d printer has it's own rules as to how it works and how you should prepare your models.

Another great resource to check out is http://www.thingiverse.com/ here you can download ready to print models for most home 3d printers.

I'm sure you'll think of plenty of questions so fire away or send me a PM.

[Diamond]

Thanks so much, it is really catching on in my other hobby model horse collecting.