[Kevan]

Thanks to Trevor Ford for this short journey.

Go to a website, upload a photo, generate a 3D image, download as a 3D file... is this possible?

...of course it is

There's plenty of websites out there, good ones you have to pay for their best tools but for freebies this is what you can do.

Upload a photo, in this instance Stirling Moss

   

Go to one of the websites offering this service, at the moment I'm experimenting with https://hyper3d.ai/rodin

It takes a few minutes to generate a 3D image which will look slightly different as you'd expect but it's passably good.

I run the .stl file through Netfabb to repair the mesh and the end result is pretty good actually.

   

I always fancied a Darrian T90GTR... no 3D file is available and I've even contacted Darrian with the possibility of a 3D file... with no luck although he liked the idea.

   

After hollowing the file to 1mm in a 3D printer slicer and removing the wheels and floor with simple blocks in 3D Builder... it looks similar enough to a Darrian T90GTR to be worthwhile printing.  The windows can either be cut out like a resin cast bodyshell or further work in 3D Builder to remove most of them that just needs tidying up.

   

These tools are here now and will only get better.
For a 3D file from a single photo these are remarkable.  These websites have the option to use multi view photos but you have to pay for that service.

[ZeGas]

OMG Kevan,

I really need you to give me a rundown on the hollowing, I have tried a couple of time failing both.
So much to learn.

I use chitubox basic as a slicer,
Blender purely to convert STL to DXF and back again
and AutoCad for mods.
On bodies I keep running out of memory and crashing in AutoCad as it only uses a single core processor.
But I persist.

[Kevan]

Hi Grant.

Chitu has a hollowing feature, you set the wall thickness but it only works on solid objects.

I used Netfabb to hollow this file, I think it's included in Chitu