Linkin Park’s latest album might be a “loud return to rocking hard,” but the band is forging new ground in other areas, including 3D printing.
All six band members were scanned earlier in the year by German firm Staramba, which specializes in “celebrity replicas.”
It is now selling 3D-printed figurines of Mike Shinoda, Chester Bennington, David Farrell, Brad Delson, Rob Bourdon and Joe Hahn. The sizes may be small, but the prices are not.
A 1:5 scale model of an individual band member, which stands just more than 35cm tall, costs US$499, with only 99 figures being made for each musician.
Fans on a budget can choose to pay US$149 for 1:10 scale models, or US$295 for a 1:20 scale version of the entire band, posed in front of some official artwork.
Staramba is also planning to take its 3D scanning equipment to venues on Linkin Park’s current Carnivores tour, enabling fans to get themselves scanned and turned into a figure with their favorite band member.
It is just the latest crossover between music and 3D printing, as artists experiment with the technology.
In November last year, Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke released a new track as a 3D-printed record, sold from a pop-up shop in London to benefit music charity Nordoff Robbins, using a technique developed to convert digital music files into vinyl-like 3D prints.
Then, in February, Cut Copy teamed up with technology firm BitTorrent to distribute 3D-printable files for the computer-animated characters in its We Are Explorers video.
3D-printed guns took a starring role in M.I.A.’s Double Bubble Trouble music video in May, while Will.i.am was announced as chief creative officer of 3D printing startup 3D Systems earlier in the year.
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