{"id":127,"date":"2008-12-21T00:35:33","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T13:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/?p=127"},"modified":"2008-12-26T00:25:25","modified_gmt":"2008-12-25T13:25:25","slug":"rub-n-buff-on-shapeways-black-detail-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/21\/rub-n-buff-on-shapeways-black-detail-material\/","title":{"rendered":"Rub &#8216;n Buff on Shapeways Black Detail Material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shapeways<\/a> has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/tutorials\/painting3dprintedsls\" target=\"_blank\">tutorial<\/a> on painting models printed using their &#8216;White Strong &amp; Flexible&#8217; (WS&amp;F) material but not very much hints to go on for their other materials.\u00a0 I had &#8216;some&#8217; luck with using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amaco.com\/prodcat-rub-n-buff-met-finishes-87.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rub &#8216;n Buff<\/a> on the WS&amp;F material on the heart ring so I thought I&#8217;ll give it a go on the black detail material from Shapeways.<\/p>\n<p>One quick photo to summarise the result :<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_128\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dsc05721a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-128\" title=\"dsc05721a\" src=\"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dsc05721a-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dsc05721a-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dsc05721a.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-128\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iris blades painted with Rub &#39;n Buff without the buffing...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The finish is pretty good for a 20 second rub on.\u00a0 I only used tissues to apply the rub n buff because i couldn&#8217;t get my hands on any decent cloth and I didn&#8217;t want my fingertips all silver again.\u00a0 With some experimentation I noticed that it is much easier to apply the paint along the &#8216;grain&#8217;.\u00a0 Keep it mind that using this paint could get a bit messy so remember to work ontop of some tissue\/newspaper!\u00a0 (I used tissue ontop of this very laptop I&#8217;m typing on now).<\/p>\n<p>Give it a try!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shapeways has a tutorial on painting models printed using their &#8216;White Strong &amp; Flexible&#8217; (WS&amp;F) material but not very much hints to go on for their other materials.\u00a0 I had &#8216;some&#8217; luck with using Rub &#8216;n Buff on the WS&amp;F material on the heart ring so I thought I&#8217;ll give it a go on the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/21\/rub-n-buff-on-shapeways-black-detail-material\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rub &#8216;n Buff on Shapeways Black Detail Material&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[54,30],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","tag-3d-printing","tag-shapeways"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}