3D Scan of Ed Borris

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1. ed borris says:

   May 14, 2015 at 2:06 PM

   Yes, that is me in the plastic.

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2. erwin says:

   May 14, 2015 at 2:12 PM

   No bad at all!!
   Any front face stand pic!?I don’t mean see the face but the detail of plastic.Sorry hard to see from up view

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3. ed borris says:

   May 14, 2015 at 2:40 PM

   Yeah I don’t have any real good pictures, the shinny black doesn’t show up real well on any of the pictures we took. If you enlarge the picture you can see a little detail, in the actual figure you can make out my moustache and some facial details. When I show people person they recognize it’s me. The white one which I thought would give better detail did not, I painted one light mocha and the detail shows up better, I’ll try and get a picture of that one.

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4. Don Perkins says:

   May 14, 2015 at 2:52 PM

   Ed, this year, if you pose for 3D again, I think you should dress like Davy Crockett, with your interest in the Alamo. Then both you and Mike Kutnick would have your own poses right in front of the Alamo during the last stages. Now where you would get the garb for Davy Crockett, along with Ole Betsy, I have no idea. I know last year Ron Barzso was walking the halls in a complete French Foreign Legion uniform with with what looked like a period rifle (early 1900).

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   • admin says:

     May 14, 2015 at 4:14 PM

     Don
     You can go to a costume shop and rent a costume. I can give you a great costume shop in London UK, but in the U.S.

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5. Wayne W says:

   May 14, 2015 at 6:04 PM

   Ed, if you could do that I know one guy who would be interested in putting it in his dio…

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6. TDBarnecut says:

   May 14, 2015 at 6:24 PM

   Ed,
   Please tell us more about the 3D process – how long did you have to hold the pose, how did they scan you, did you have a choice of the scale you were printed in, choice of plastic material, cost of print, did you get to keep a copy of the 3D file (so you can print more later on your own printer), etc.

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7. TDBarnecut says:

   May 14, 2015 at 6:37 PM

   Here’s an idea….
   Take your 3D scanner to an historical re-enactors gathering (era of your choice) , have the various re-enactors pose in all the toy soldier poses you need, scan them, take the scans home and print them in the colors of your choice & make the toy soldier army you’ve always wanted.

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8. Carl Cwiklinski says:

   May 14, 2015 at 7:42 PM

   The Foreign Legion must have been desperate for recruits last year.

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9. Mark says:

   May 14, 2015 at 7:49 PM

   Looks good from what I can see ED, what scale/size is it ?

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10. Greg Liska says:

    May 14, 2015 at 9:46 PM

    Lookin’ pretty BA, Ed.

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11. erwin says:

    May 14, 2015 at 10:47 PM

    ok,what was the price paid for this figure if not too much asking!?

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12. ed borris says:

    May 15, 2015 at 8:24 AM

    Okay, they made me stand on a rotating platform and hand scanned me in three sections, it took maybe 5 minutes to go through the three scans. The price was $70.00 for one figure 2 for $120.00. I actually got 5 figures done as they messed up my order and sent me an additional 3 figures later, it took like 6 weeks to get the figures delivered. The figure is 54mm, you did have options on the size, I don’t remember all the options, but I think the largest size they’d do was 12 inches and the price varied by size. I understand Ron Barzso dressed up for his figure, I haven’t seen it yet. I didn’t plan on having the figure made, but only decided after I made some pretty good sales at the show so I wasn’t really prepared. If they do it again I’ll break out my suede fringe jacket and try to gather up some other accessories. You are limited to the poses you can do as the disk you revolve on isn’t real large, that’s why my feet are pretty close together.

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    • erwin says:

      May 15, 2015 at 8:27 AM

      Thank YOU !! Ed for info and explanation, interesting!!!

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    • Don Perkins says:

      May 15, 2015 at 9:21 AM

      If the stand doesn’t allow you much flexibility in creating an action pose, I think it would be interesting in having a simple standing pose holding a rifle with butt on the ground in front of you, as if you were standing there listing to Travis deliver his Line In The Sand speech. In the John Wayne Alamo movie, they had John Wayne and all the other Alamo defenders listening to Travis in that very pose. In your buckskin jacket, your coonskin hat, your slung powder horn, and holding a Kentucky Long Rifle, you would look good, Ed.

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13. ed borris says:

    May 15, 2015 at 9:54 AM

    So, what are you saying Don? I don’t look good now? I think I can get in a good action pose without falling off the platform, just can’t spread my feet too wide or I’ll fall off the disk. I do have a coonskin hat and I think I do have a powder horn too, the rifle, no. I do think I can find a flintlock pistol though and a big honking knife.

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    • Don Perkins says:

      May 15, 2015 at 11:26 AM

      I meant to say, “You would look even better!” But somewhere in the length and breadth of Chicago-Land there’s got to be someone with a connection to Chicago-Land toy soldier collectors who has either an original or a replica Kentucky Long Rifle they can loan you for the weekend.

      Of course, if my memory serves me correctly, my autographed photo of Fess Parker that came with my Barzso Daniel Boone Playset has Fess in buckskins holding a flintlock pistol. So if a facsimile of Ole Betsy can’t be found, the flintlock pistol accompanied by Bowie knife will do.

      I think I’m going to rewatch the Travis Line In The Sand portions of both Walt Disney Fess Parker version, and then the John Wayne Alamo version, to refresh my memory of how Davy Crockett was standing there while Travis was laying out the situation for the Alamo garrison. But I’m thinking the pose would work well for a 3D sculpting.

      P.S. Just before pushing the “Post Comment” button, I ran down to the basement to recheck my Fess Parker framed photo. Sure enough, the Kentucky Long Rife was there, rather than the pistol. But I think either the flintlock pistol or the Bowie knife (or both) would be just fine.

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14. ed borris says:

    May 15, 2015 at 12:03 PM

    Maybe I can get Mike Kutnick to pose as a Mexican and I can be strangling him with one hand and stabbing with the other. A hand to hand combat, now that would be something.

    Good. recovery by the way.

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15. ed borris says:

    May 15, 2015 at 2:22 PM

    There may be some new pictures posted sometime today so you can see my pretty face in the 3d scan, I know, I know, you can hardly wait.

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16. Mike Kutnick says:

    May 15, 2015 at 11:35 PM

    RE: Alamo 3-D figures. Just by coincidence I do have have a Frontiersman hunting shirt and a [ hand made] Bowie knife with scabbard, and a flintlock pistol [ made from a kit], and a replica [ toy] muzzle loading rifle, and an authentic powder horn. Pretty good start for a figure scan, in fact Ed and I just talked today about doing a two person scan [ but no, I am not gong to be a Mexican Soldado being strangled by Ed]. I think he would look better being dressed as Mrs. Dickensen.

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17. ed borris says:

    May 16, 2015 at 9:00 PM

    Geez, not that cheesy one you used for your business cards I hope. That’s one of my theories, not fair turning it around on me. That was Davey Corckett’s role, he snuck out of the Alamo dressed like Suzanne.

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18. Wayne W says:

    May 17, 2015 at 10:22 AM

    We’ll probably be seeing that theory on the next History Channel “documentary” on the Alamo.

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