You are welcome. One minor point, the color isn't perfectly uniform. I'd say it is very nice, more than good enough.
But there is some slight difference in color on the sharpest edges, and parts with different curvature and different orientation to the SLS assembly process can have slightly different net color. For example, the top middle gear has some slight variation in color on both lobes. Again, very nice color, in my opinion, but not perfect.
I think if the nylon WSF dust were colored before SLS, the color would be more uniform. Thus your suggestion that Shapeways offer colored service makes sense.
Maybe green for saint Patrick's day, red for valentines, pink for mothers day, orange for Halloween, etc. Certainly there would be operational issues of offering different colored dust, perhaps meaning there is more delay (waiting for enough batches of parts of a color to be ordered before printing) etc. Perhaps Shapeways could expose their part-production pipeline so customers could see how long the delay would be in one or more colors, what the delay would be for white. Depending on the growth of Shapeways total volume production, this could make sense in the future, even if it has too large an impact on operational business aspects to implement immediately.
pdl.
> The photos and finished model look great! The color is definitely
> very bright and uniform. You've convinced me to go purchase RIT
> scarlet dye. Wink