Just before the lockdown started I was asked by Stromness Museum if I could 3D print a full sized model of their famous Neolithic artefact ‘Buddo’ found at Skara Brea with a view of perhaps making something for sale although the COVID-19 situation has now put this idea on the back burner.
The model was created from the photogrammetry data produced by Hugo Anderson-Wymark of HES and printed with a plastic filament with stone dust in to to attempt to give a more realistic bone like texture rather than plastic feel. There are filaments available for printing bone but these are expensive and this was only a test.
The printing of this was tricky as there was no flat surface and so I had to use support material that was water dissolvable to handle the curved bottom of the model, this is often an issue with curved models like bowls.
In the end I printed three models, one for Hugo, one for the museum and one for myself.
In the first paragraph, Corvidae (Corvids) is the family of birds that includes ravens and crows, not a virus.
Ooops ! I have corrected it , thanks for letting me know.