A growing array of 3-D printing services has become available to Japanese consumers as the fabricating technique gains popularity, with businesses offering to create figurines shaped like customers or miniatures of pets, and even 3-D face models of unborn fetuses.

To commemorate their engagement, Hiroki Hyogoya and his fiancee, Yuri Tahara, both 29, decided to have a plaster miniature made as a constant reminder of their love for each other.

The Tokyo couple were elated to see how the action figures of Hyogoya on bended knee asking for Tahara's hand in marriage were completed with precision down to the smallest detail, such as the color of their fingernails.