Pre-Release | Mega City One

Supplies : 1/4" Proograde Acylic, 1/8" Walnut Hardwood & Cherry Ply
Op Time: 32 mins for the small one and 1hr 15min for the large one. All done @ 675LPI.

Judge Dredd is well into my top 10 movie list.

This is mostly an example of the 'forge (specifically a PRU) doing 3D Engraving.

Unfortunately, I don’t know where exactly where I got the STL as it was in my ‘movie props’ folder from about 3 years ago. But I passed it into Blender to get a depth map. Then into Photoshop to remove the solid black background and to tweak the mapping. Then imported that into illustrator so I can create an offset path as a cut line. Exported that out as an SVG and off to the races.

Close up of the tube doing its thing.

I like the way it came out so I made another one 20% bigger.

Then I wanted to see what it looked like in acrylic.

Dredd Approves.

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Grab some rub n buff and it would look even more awesomer! Nice job!

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Uh oh, this gives me some great ideas…lolol

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Kewl! :relaxed::+1:

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Awesome Badge!
I Really love the Acrylic version!

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That is SWEEEET!!!

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really cool. Gives me some ideas!

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I have several photos of that badge saved in my movie props folder as well. Came out amazing, especially the acrylic!

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Seriously, you need to stop being so awesome. It looks so good, Nerd cred +1!

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Is the acrylic one painted to look metallic?

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that really looks fantastic. I’ll have to do a Raccoon City PD badge…

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Holy moly, that’s incredible! Just think what you could do for heraldry and family crests and such.

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The golden one is GF-made or just a reference?

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Oh nice…love me some Dredd. :smiley:

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Ooooo, I don’t know what I like better – the wooden one or the acrylic one. They are both too awesome!

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This looks AWESOME!

So… I don’t remember how to get a depth map in Blender. Tips?

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That’s not Dredd.

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I was Dredding that…

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Yeah – I lean toward Karl Urban – although if you’ve read the graphic novels, Sly is pretty true to the character…