Post #643949 by Gene S Morgan on Fri, Jul 13, 2012 7:31 PM

I went back a reread this whole thread. I'm starting to understand things a little better. I have a couple of questions ... (of course)

The models I get back from ShapeWays are rougher than my digital scuplts. I kinda like that for now, but do you think it has to do with the material or the layer thickness? Your's look quite smooth and you mentioned that you went from .3mm to .2mm in your layering. Is is possible that they are using a coarser layer. You said you had used ShapeWays. How did theirs compare to what you can do on your own printer?

I noticed you were using Krylon interior/exterior spray paint. Did you come up that by experiment? We hand paint ours with brushes and have been thinking that the brush strokes are showing too much and we should try spraying. Do you use a clear spray after antiquing?

On the ShapeWays forum they often talk of hollowing out the model to reduce the cost. Do you do that. I must admit I don't quite understand hollowing. I have tried to sculpt on a plane and extrude the plane thickness, and those always get rejected by ShapeWays as unprintable. I would think that would be similar to hollowing .... Sorry for all the dumb questions ... It's not often I get to question someone who actually knows what he is doing .... Thanks Gene