>>10676094For simple things like pictured, they'd likely just have sculpted at scale. But for more detailed things like action figures with small intricacies all over, they used to sculpt two times the size (often called a 2-Up), and then for tooling, they'd pantograph it down. Essentially 'trace' over the surface of the sculpted object, which would translate those same shapes onto whatever material its being carved out from, which would essentially produce a shrunken 'copy' of the original larger sculpt.
If you want to make toys, you don't have to do it like that. Those are for mass production. You can simply sculpt small figurines by hand or 3D model and have things 3D printed. Then if you want things in a different material than what's able to be printed, you can mold and cast in whatever you want.
