Big Veggies (and Fruits)
I've always loved vegetables. Even as a young child, one of my favorite foods was green onion. It's really a bummer that my sensitive stomach sometimes limits my enjoyment of them... it's funny how something always gets in the way of a potentially healthy habit!
Recently I decided that it would be fun to capture the beauty of raw fruits and vegetables by 3D scanning their forms and created sculptures from the CAD data. I don't really modify the shapes much at all, other than to scale them up and make them more easy to manufacture - I find them beautiful as-is! Once the form is finalized, they're then printed on one of my FDM machines, polished up a bit, and sent out for casting and patina.
Recently I decided that it would be fun to capture the beauty of raw fruits and vegetables by 3D scanning their forms and created sculptures from the CAD data. I don't really modify the shapes much at all, other than to scale them up and make them more easy to manufacture - I find them beautiful as-is! Once the form is finalized, they're then printed on one of my FDM machines, polished up a bit, and sent out for casting and patina.
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Who doesn't love avocado toast? Have you ever tried making it with a 15lb bronze avocado, with a perfectly ripe patina? Delicious!

OK - I know squirrels aren't vegetables (though I'm told they do taste like chicken). This "hell squirrel" was designed and built to protect our vegetable garden from the real squirrels out there. It was cast in bronze, with a realistic patina, and is about 3x scale over typical squirrels. The LED eyes are powered by a battery, which will be hidden in the future. I'm going to try and hook this up with a motion sensor so that any snacking squirrel will fear that, if he doesn't move, he may be this squirrel's next snack!
Stay tuned for more pieces in this series -- and send over a comment with any new vegetable suggestions!