Brass Medallion
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Hi guys,
I'm working on a display cabinet for a collection of extremely rare glass art and the client wants a very classical looking unit. His desk is a 18th century copy of a 17th century French desk made of Mahagony and inlaid with brass trimmings and ornamentation (somewhat gaudy for my taste) and he wants the same sort of style to be reflected in the display cabinet. Just to give you some idea of the kind of things he wants to put in the unit, there's one vase by the Italian master Lino Tagliapietra worth around 35,000 Euro.(!!)
So anyway, as part of the ornamentation I made these eliptical brass medallions.
How do you like them?
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That is beautiful. In the center of the medallion, is that an image or did you model the flower
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Hi Eric. In answer to your question:
@unknownuser said:
In the center of the medallion, is that an image or did you model the flower
I can only appologise for not having posted the medallion model. It was late, I was tired, you know, the usual excuses for being scatter-brained
So anyway, here's the medallion skippy.
Plaster Medallion.skp
It's actually quite crude and I'm sure most of the guys could do something much more ellaborate but it does give a nice 3D effect. I took a photo of a plaster cieling medallion and slapped it on a disc. Then I traced around some of the parts, p/p'ed them a bit, projected the texture and basicaly that's it. The center 'flower' was a bit more work. I didn't want to just p/p because then I wouldn't get that 'leaf' effect, so I scaled down the flowers base and did a follow me of a gentle curve for the top skin. Then I re-projected the texture and moved the flower back onto the center of the disc.
Like I said, it's all pretty crude stuff. I think I probably would have gotten better results with soap-skin that with follw-me. So here's the skippy. I hope you find it useful. I'm planning to make a whole bunch of them and experimenting with different techniques. I'll post as I go along.
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