you don't say

It is still too expensive for the good resolution machines.

Lower res is still good but takes a whole lot of manual surface finishing.

None of the materials available are durable enough to make the final version of prop/costume unless it's small details (like a brouche or something that will not see any abuse at all).

All of that will be fixed withing half a decade or so.

But personally I just consider it cheating if you're a cosplayer. Learn to use your own god damn hands.

If you're a professional prop-maker for movies then yes in the long run it's a time and labor-saving tech even today. But for cosplay that's just silly.

>google images gold
>print out pictures
>hundreds of them
>cut them out
>take them to jeweler to sell
>????
>PROFIT
>buy a mansion with a large basement
>fill it with Chinese workers
>get costumes made
>never work last minute until a con again

OP may be on to something here.

yes, Original Poster, it be magic box, it create thing with the power of BELIEF fueled by Christianity

Allahu Akbar

>>5610136
>Christianity
>Allahu Ackbar

Their God is called Buddha you insensitive fuck.

Internet trolls, I swear to Kojiki, man...

>>5610151
>Ackbar

We have one at work, those things are pretty fucking awesome, if you ask me.

I still haven't figured out how to scan my butthole with it though.

>>5610154

>>5610105
>So long as the material is usable, for, printing.
Why commas?

>>5610180
I don't, understand, what you mean?

>>5610198

I was, asking, why OP used commas in his or her sentence. Sorry, if, I wasn't clear.

It'd have to be small and non-load-bearing, like a brooch or a sword's pommel or something.
It's prohibitively expensive to make larger props like full guns or swords or something, and in the case of a sword it'd probably not be structurally sound enough to be able to hold together.

Depending on the material, of course; I think some people did 3D print a car. But I don't believe you have millions of dollars and a highly specialized materials science research team lying around.

>>5610202
Nah, don't, worry I think, it's, okay.

>>5610115
>But personally I just consider it cheating if you're a cosplayer. Learn to use your own god damn hands.

I chuckled. You trade the know-how of cutting/shaping <insert material> for 3D design/mapping (you still need to get a workable model of what you want printed into the printer) plus the hours you'd have to put into work to pay for the damn thing.

You'll still need to sand or fix a few details, less so the higher end machine you go. Regardless of resolution, you'll need to prime and paint them to look anything decent.

Now if you just grab a pre-made model off the web and print it, yeah I could see how you could label that as cheating. Which is in the same ballpark as buying the costume/prop already made.

I just think of these as the next step in what was obviously the ladder of tools.

What I do foresee in the future, however, is a higher standard for prop/costumes as a result of these printers. If you can lay down $500-$700 for a good machine and around $100 in raw materials and produce high quality work (assuming a good model), then naturally you'll see cons with more high quality stuff.

Also kinda curious how convention contests will treat things made this way. Would it be considered made by the person since they had to do the 3D model, or made by the machine thus disqualifying them from any craftsmanship contests or the like?

>>5610224
>If you can lay down $500-$700 for a good machine
It's not like you have to purchase them yourself (also shit's like $1600 for the very cheapest these days; you're right in that they'll be cheaper in the future, but I don't think they'd cheapen that much, especially for the good machines). If your city has a makerspace or something similar (and quite a few places do) you can probably use theirs for nothing worse than a very nominal fee. And cost of materials of course, I suppose.

>>5610233
Well, there will be a consumer grade printer for the price range within the decade, that's for sure.

That's the trend with most electronics, notably things like mp3 players, digital cameras, CD/DVD Burners (I remember almost buying one when it was like 2-4x burn speed for $400, hah).

Though, for things like mp3 players and the multimedia burners, the music industry did fight back pretty hard to try to keep that shit off the market. Consumers won out in the end because of just how popular those products would be.

As for 3D printers, I don't see that much of an interest to mount a huge defense against copyright holders trying to make sure you don't print a car.

>>5610224 If you can lay down $500-$700 for a good machine

"good" machines do not come in that price range. "good" machines start in the tens of thousands of dollars range. Only stuff you can get for $500-700 is those silly kits that you have to build the printer yourself and the tolerances are looser than a 50 year old hooker. You'll spend more time fixing your printed part than you would building it entirely from scratch.

Wait a few more years and then you will actually be able to buy a worthwhile machine for under ~$1000

>>5610250
It is my life's goal to be able to prove this wrong at some time in my lifetime.