Robbyrockett2
Air-Valve Autobot!
Inspired by Daves carved handles I decided to try one of my own. This one i CNC'd onto a junk handle using a line drawing of a dragon i manually filled with gradients in order to produce a depthmap.
A lot of little things to figure out still. It didnt have quite the contrast I was hoping for so i sprayed with black lacquer then rubbed with acetone to remove the high spots. Finally started to build an epoxy layer and decided it wasnt worth completely finishing because i could do much better with some tweaks. I did learn a lot, trying to carve coin like images onto a rounded complex curve is not easy on CNC.
Next I intend to try some Of @Visual Realm s skulls piled together on a decent handle. They seem easy enough for me to make decent depth maps from. He was good enough to give permission. If its semi successful then I'll send it to him.
A lot of little things to figure out still. It didnt have quite the contrast I was hoping for so i sprayed with black lacquer then rubbed with acetone to remove the high spots. Finally started to build an epoxy layer and decided it wasnt worth completely finishing because i could do much better with some tweaks. I did learn a lot, trying to carve coin like images onto a rounded complex curve is not easy on CNC.
Next I intend to try some Of @Visual Realm s skulls piled together on a decent handle. They seem easy enough for me to make decent depth maps from. He was good enough to give permission. If its semi successful then I'll send it to him.