Scans for planning

 Quick post as this has worked out better than I expected.  I found a reasonable 3D Scanning App on Android - WIDAR.

The App is easy to use: it shoots photos repeatedly once started.  Rather than move my phone around the object I built a temporary turntable out of a plate and a bowl.  I only got one failed scan: a Bloodcrusher from Ebay that was primed black so it must have been hard to process.  Redone with better lighting and it scanned correctly.  The photos are then uploaded to a server and processed.

You need to tidy up the scan a little by erasing some areas, but once reasonably tidy you can then export to STL and import into Blender.

When imported to Blender the size will vary wildly.  To bring it down to scale, I measured each base to the millimetre, then worked out the scaling co-efficient to scale down each set of polygons.

A little colour, and now there's something reasonable to work with.  I will trim out the bases themselves out later.  This is only for an indicator of space, volume, and placement.  Quite a lot of the models will be converted.

 

In less interesting news, I've been working on stripping the paint of the Ebay models I've purchased for the diorama.  So far everything has been acrylic paint, and a bath in 99.9% Isopropanol is doing great.  I

To try waste as little as possible, I'm re-using the same liquid over and over, removing the sediment as it settles.  This is working ok, however I do wonder that not having a pure clean bath of IPA is stopping me getting right back to the plastic.  Many of the models are stained white or black from their original primer.

Some too vigorous tooth brushing has also broken off several arms and heads.  Not that this is a problem, they'll all be cut up and mangled eventually.