A Birmingham-based company is producing 3D busts using CNC equipment. The busts can be made in 3D half head, a silhouette style, or the full head, at 50% to 70% actual scale size.

A Birmingham-based company is producing 3D busts using CNC equipment.

The process starts with a visit from the client to the studio where the client is scanned, this being a scanner which projects a laser line onto the client’s face/head and the reflected light is captured by a high speed camera.

The information captured of the client’s face/head is now converted into a CNC program which is used to control a CNC milling machine.

The machine now cuts an over size blank to the clients face/head features, the machined bust is then hand finished and painted, the finished bust is available for collection in approximately one week from scanning.

The busts can be made in 3D half head, a silhouette style, or the full head, at 50% to 70% actual scale size, with a choice of bases and finished to any colour you require, in cast stone (plaster) ceramic or cast bronze.

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