Well, here's another part to my current project.

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Well, here’s another part to my current project. Thanks again #LaserWeb for your spectacular job on engraving the imagery.

Image was processed in Photoshop first, from the colour image (see photos) to a greyscale image using Threshold (value 50, arbitrary value chosen by what looks good).

So, the size was just shy of 7 inch tall, 10 inch wide. Took about 3-6 hours engraving, as certain regions I had to redo (after super careful re-alignment) as the image came out too light for my liking. I think the main engrave (1st run) was about 3 hours (something like 2.9 million lines of gcode).

So, after all the engraving (yesterday), today I sat down for the last 3 hours airbrushing it. 4 colours, leather-dye (thinned 10:1 with Methylated Spirits:Dye).

I will share Original Image, Pre-Processed Image, After Engrave, After Airbrushing.

#Ortelius #1570 #WorldMap #LaserWeb leatherwork #Airbrush

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c26dee73c4c7f8553019b08ca4471480.jpeg5344×3008 5.95 MB

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559e8b2a44afd76ea2ecc33701e67972.jpeg5344×3008 5.88 MB

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f19db6d2c8b77ce068083dca7e51f2cf.jpeg3000×2100 3.79 MB

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d3e6af9d427d90a14381d55d1f561b16.jpeg5816×3961 6.98 MB

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Love it. Are you going to dye that?

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@Ariel_Yahni_UniKpty That is dyed :smiley: Hence the 3 hours airbrushing. Hands are multicoloured at the moment too haha.

I will add some sealer/lacquer onto it tomorrow after it has had a decent chance to dry (& I can take another look over it to make sure I didn’t miss any regions that should have colour).

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OMG I did not notice that. Now I’m blown away more :slight_smile: