>>6196196Here's a look into how kits are created, they get into cutting the tooling towards the end, with most of that being in part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwd_CCPxNv0That won't be cheap, even if you hire the services of some bigger maker so you don't have to buy all the machinery yourself.
Now there is some cheaper way of doing it, used for short run kits (I suspect because the moulds created don't survive very long), which is what you see from some smaller guys. Those kits don't live up to the standards of "proper" ones though.
>>6196633>3D printing means you can save on sculptorsInstead you need a skilled 3D modeller. And normal injection moulded kits are computer "sculpted" nowadays as well.