3D printed St. Stanislaus medal
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labricoleuseFor our current production of Three Sisters at PlayMakers Repertory Company, we had to make the Order of St. Stanislaus medal for the character of Kulyegin.
Our costume designer, Tracy Christiansen, provided me with this great research image of what the medal looks like:
Printed at 3mm thick, then painted with a metallic spray paint before finishing.
Finished medal
The dimensional and decorative elements are built up with Winderflex, a cabochon, cyanoacrylate, and French enamel varnish. Several shades of the varnish were used to give it an aged/bronzed look.
Our costume designer, Tracy Christiansen, provided me with this great research image of what the medal looks like:
...but we certainly didn't own one, and buying one would've been $100+, not in the budget. So it fell to crafts to make one for stage.
In the past, we might have sculpted it from polymer clay or Friendly Plastic, and just last year i would have said that i'd cut it out of Wonderflex by hand. But this year, i took the reseach image and isolated the silhouette of the medal itself, vectorized it, extruded it, and 3D printed it.
In the past, we might have sculpted it from polymer clay or Friendly Plastic, and just last year i would have said that i'd cut it out of Wonderflex by hand. But this year, i took the reseach image and isolated the silhouette of the medal itself, vectorized it, extruded it, and 3D printed it.
Printed at 3mm thick, then painted with a metallic spray paint before finishing.
Finished medal
The dimensional and decorative elements are built up with Winderflex, a cabochon, cyanoacrylate, and French enamel varnish. Several shades of the varnish were used to give it an aged/bronzed look.
I did the manip using Photoshop and Tinkercad, and you can grab the file off of Thingiverse, here, if you want one of your own!
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