http://www.shapeways.com/model/473470/pirate-pendant.html

The gold plated glossy one arrived a couple of weeks ago and the silver (not silver glossy) one on Monday. I've been madly trying to improve my photography skills since then.

While the gold plated one has a nice 'sunken treasure' type of finish too it, it's the print quality of the silver one I'm particularly thrilled with. Naturally I tried ordering silver glossy, but I had a reply stating that the detail level was too small to risk polishing it off again. That being said, the quality of the non glossy silver did not disappoint. Even the slight pupil indents in her eyes came out, which was a pleasant surprise.

Overall, very happy with the quality and I hope you will be too!

[Updated on: Sun, 15 July 2012 07:50 UTC]

Cool details, realy great in silver

[Updated on: Sun, 11 March 2012 14:15 UTC]

[Updated on: Mon, 12 March 2012 11:55 UTC]

Once again, thanks for the comments/feedback and thanks Shapeways team for the Friday Finds mention!

Above is a photo of the FUD prints that came through. They are obviously quite detailed, but it's quite hard to see in person, let alone photograph. I just took a few quick snaps for now, this being the better one.

Cleaning then painting them seems the way to go, but no real rush on that as I basically got them out of curiosity as mentioned. Would rather get on with the next design.

I've also finally got a rendered turntable up from Blender's new Cycles Renderer, given that I don't have any side or angled photos online.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60CYbn8Lw4w
http://vimeo.com/38771936

Both are identical videos, just pick your site of choice.

Thanks again and I look forward to posting more work here!

[Updated on: Mon, 19 March 2012 11:56 UTC]

Hi all,

A bit of a thread bump, but I figure it was better than starting a new thread.



I finally got around to trying patina as suggested. It will need a bit of practice to do it repeatably with a nice finish, but so does everything else worth while.

The other thing that will need some practice is using my Macro Bellows. Took a little while just to figure out how to get a decent focus with it, but loving it once I got that sorted.

I tried the patina option with the boiled egg, which worked on the smaller rings I used as test pieces, but I couldn't get any sort of even patina on the pendant. So I heated the pendant up to more or less remove that patina and tried some Liver of Sulphur which worked much nicer.

More photos:

[Updated on: Sun, 15 July 2012 08:09 UTC]