Wednesday, June 29, 2011

You Can Have Custom Miniature Figurines Made Of All Your Friends

By Joseph Taylor


You love giving gifts. You always have. It is a little thing that everyone is aware of about you. Gifts are your thing. It does not matter to you whether they are for birthdays, holidays, or special occasions. In fact, sometimes you like to spring a little present on a person simply to surprise them. The dilemma, of course, is that you give so many gifts that you are always on the look out for new gift ideas.

You were very excited the other day when you noticed a little bobble head doll on the desk of one of your co-workers and questioned him about it; you see, it looked uncannily like him and you had to wonder who it was modelled after. He smiled and told you that his girlfriend had it custom made online somewhere. You had never heard of such a thing. You hurried back to your cubicle, went online, and discovered something amazing; you can order miniature figurines and bobble heads online!

## Lots of sites to choose from

The biggest, most exciting surprise was not that a website for custom miniature figurines existed but that, in fact, many such sites existed. God, you love the internet. 3D Figurines, miniatures, bobble heads, and even articulated action figures can be custom made to look like anyone you wish. Competition, you know, always favours the consumer and that's probably why the prices you found were so reasonable.

## The likenesses are amazing

Each site produces slightly different styles and interpretations of the subjects they are asked to portray but the online portfolios of miniatures are quite amazing. Many of the likenesses are quite good and some are downright uncanny.

## So many potential gift ideas

The exciting thing about custom miniature figurines is that unlike most gift ideas there are so many playful, light hearted applications that you could gift a miniature to just about anyone:

- a figurine of yourself for your mother who claims that she doesn't see enough of you anymore

- a Russell Crow bobble head for your friend in Victoria who's seen Gladiator at least thirty times

- a clay miniature of Stephen Harper for your Canadian friend to stick pins into

- cubicle mini-spouses for your favourite co-workers

The possibilities are practically endless.

## Such an simple process

While all the sites are slightly different, generally they require the same thing in order to craft a custom likeness. All you have to do is upload a few clear, relatively close-up images of the person in question. The images should show natural expressions, be well lit, and if you can send more than one angle (straight on and profile for example) that will certainly help.

Two of your friends from high school are finally getting married after living together for six years. They have told everybody that they don't expect gifts. But perhaps you'll scan pictures of them from the yearbooks and have custom couple figurines made anyway. It is not going to be a large ceremony as it turns out and you're not even sure if there'll be a "wedding cake" but the figurines would an awesome little gift regardless; small enough that neither one of them could possibly object.




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