{ "title": "How long does a custom figurine take?", "url": "https://nendo.world/articles/how-long-a-custom-figurine-takes", "published": "2026-09-18", "updated": "2026-09-18", "publisher": { "name": "Nendo", "url": "https://nendo.world/" }, "summary": [ "Most shops that make a figurine from your photo publish 2 to 5 weeks from order to delivery. Those are estimates. We timed our own orders. Across 33 delivered orders placed between 27 May and 26 August 2026, the median was 17.4 days from checkout to the door, which is 12 working days. Nine in ten arrived inside 22 days, and the slowest took 34.", "Making the figurine is the short part. Half of the figurines made on Nendo since 1 July 2026 went from picture to 3D model in 5.1 minutes, and to a real print price in about 7 minutes. That is measured on 432 runs.", "Printing and shipping take up almost all of the wait. About 6.6 days pass before the parcel is with the carrier, and then it spends about 10.3 days in transit. Customs took under an hour for nearly every parcel." ], "tables": [ { "id": "stage-by-stage", "section": "How long each stage takes", "caption": "How long each stage takes, Nendo orders and runs", "columns": [ "Stage", "Typical", "Slowest tenth", "Measured on" ], "rows": [ [ "Picture to a 3D model you can spin", "5.1 minutes", "7.2 minutes", "432 runs since 1 July 2026" ], [ "Picture to a real print price", "6.9 minutes", "11.8 minutes", "422 runs since 1 July 2026" ], [ "One change, then a new model", "4.2 minutes", "5.5 minutes", "117 edit rounds, 31 May to 9 September 2026" ], [ "Checkout to the parcel reaching the carrier", "6.6 days", "10.4 days", "33 delivered orders" ], [ "Carrier to your door", "10.3 days", "12.8 days", "33 delivered orders" ], [ "Checkout to your door", "17.4 days, or 12 working days", "21.8 days", "33 delivered orders, checkouts 27 May to 26 August 2026" ] ], "notes": "Our production database and the carrier's own tracking scans, read on 17 September 2026. Working days count Monday to Friday without removing public holidays, so the true count is the same or lower. The printer's own shipped stamp puts the first leg at 7.5 days across 38 orders, and the carrier's first scan puts it at 6.6 days. Both come to about a week." }, { "id": "where-the-wait-goes", "section": "Where the time goes", "caption": "Checkout to the door, by destination", "columns": [ "Destination", "Typical", "Middle half", "Slowest tenth", "Orders" ], "rows": [ [ "United States", "16.7 days", "16.5 to 18.5 days", "19.8 days", "13" ], [ "European Union", "17.7 days", "15.1 to 18.6 days", "23.1 days", "20" ], [ "Everywhere else", "No delivered orders yet, so no number", "", "", "" ] ], "notes": "Calendar days from checkout to the carrier's delivered scan, on 33 delivered orders with checkouts between 27 May and 26 August 2026. The EU rows are mostly the Netherlands, so treat them as a small and narrow sample. The middle half is what is left after dropping the fastest and slowest quarters." }, { "id": "what-shops-promise", "section": "What other shops promise", "caption": "Published times at 10 custom figurine shops, 17 September 2026", "columns": [ "Shop", "What the page says", "When their clock starts" ], "rows": [ [ "3D Portrait Lab", "Most orders arrive within 2 to 3 weeks (10 to 17 business days): preview, 3 working days of production, 7 to 12 business days of shipping", "At your proof confirmation. The same page gives the preview as both 24 working hours and 48 hours" ], [ "SnapFig", "10 to 15 business days to make it, plus 7 to 15 business days of shipping", "At preview approval. The page never says how long the preview takes" ], [ "Figuro", "2 to 4 weeks from design approval, including design time of 3 to 5 days and production of 7 to 10 days", "At design approval, although design time sits inside the same window" ], [ "JuJuBit", "Six stages listed: modelling 3 to 5, printing 5 to 7, transit 2 to 5, customs 1 to 2, delivery 2 to 5 business days", "At the order. Two other pages give processing as 7 to 10 and 8 to 12 business days" ], [ "PrinYou", "About 3 to 5 weeks in total", "After a review step, with no breakdown" ], [ "RepliToy", "Preview in 24 hours, ships in 6 to 17 days, production 5 to 14 days", "At approval. The same page also says 5 to 10 days, and labels 6 to 17 as both days and business days" ], [ "SketchToToy", "2 to 4 business days to prepare the model, 3 to 5 to print, 1 to 2 to deliver, about 6 to 11 in total", "At your approval and payment. Netherlands only" ], [ "Doodle2Life", "Created and shipped within 7 to 10 business days, plus 5 to 7 business days of ground shipping", "At the order" ], [ "Fins Studio", "Delivered to your door in around 10 days, with a model emailed for approval within 48 to 72 hours", "At the order, in calendar days" ], [ "Hero Forge", "Up to 4 weeks from order to ship out, then 4 to 5 business days in the US or 7 to 10 international", "At the order" ] ], "notes": "Each shop's own published wording on its site on 17 September 2026, shortened here and with dashes replaced. We checked 20 shops and show the 10 that sell the same kind of thing we do. Bobblehead and plush makers, which run far longer, are left out: the slowest published timeline we found was 8 to 10 weeks on a standard tier, with faster tiers sold for $49 to $99." }, { "id": "how-we-measured", "section": "How we measured", "caption": "Data behind this page", "columns": [ "Data", "Source", "Count", "Dates" ], "rows": [ [ "Picture to model and to price", "Our generation records", "432 runs", "1 July to 17 September 2026" ], [ "One change, then a new model", "Our version records", "117 edit rounds", "31 May to 9 September 2026" ], [ "Checkout to door, and each leg", "Paid orders with carrier tracking", "33 delivered orders", "Checkouts 27 May to 26 August 2026" ], [ "Customs", "Carrier scan events on tracked parcels", "34 parcels", "27 May to 17 September 2026" ], [ "Other shops' published times", "Each shop's own pages", "20 shops, 10 shown", "17 September 2026" ] ], "notes": "All the tables on this page can be downloaded as CSV or JSON below." } ], "sources": [ { "label": "U.S. Customs and Border Protection, e-commerce", "url": "https://www.cbp.gov/trade/basic-import-export/e-commerce", "note": "US rules for parcels bought online from abroad", "accessed": "17 September 2026" }, { "label": "GOV.UK, tax and customs for goods sent from abroad", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/goods-sent-from-abroad", "note": "UK rules and how long a held parcel is kept", "accessed": "17 September 2026" }, { "label": "Your Europe, shipping and delivery", "url": "https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/shopping/shipping-delivery/index_en.htm", "note": "EU delivery rules and import charges", "accessed": "17 September 2026" }, { "label": "17TRACK", "url": "https://www.17track.net/", "note": "The tracking service whose carrier scans we time deliveries from", "accessed": "17 September 2026" } ] }