World of Warships, for example is part of a $2.5 billion USD Belorussian company headquartered in Cyprus called "Wargaming Group Limited" (WGL). Russia tried to seize and nationalize the company this past June.

WGL has a large staff of researchers and designers and big research budget.

Their efforts have resulted in the production of many digital warship models (and planes and tanks, too), some very accurate.

Enterprising 3D-printers frequently "rip" gaming models from computer games and convert them into 3D-printable files in order to create a 3D model in the real world, then sell those models on platforms like eBay.

The upside of doing so is that converting digital models to real models gives modelers access to many rare subjects.

The downside is that since the the original digital models were designed for gaming purposes, their details are optimized for the digital world, not the real world. Features like deck planking are sometimes grossly exaggerated and general accuracy can suffer.

It should also be noted that in many countries, including the US, ripping a digital model and converting it to a 3D-printable model without the permission and license from the digital model's creator is illegal under US, Chinese and other international copyright laws.

A 3D-printing company ripping a game file without permission is no different legally than a Chinese company copying an Iron Shipwright resin kit and producing a plastic or other resin model from it.

If SSModel, Gaga and others are ripping gaming files, we do not know if they had permission to do so as would be required under US, Chinese and international law. Neither SSModel or Gaga state the origin of the model on their packaging, nor do they state whether or not their models are licensed by gaming companies like WGL. However, some of their models do indeed exhibit distinct characteristics of gaming models and their features closely match the ships in World of Warships.

Food for thought.