Large Shell Tray

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I crafted this for our bathroom by the sink where we'd store sea salt hand scrub. I drew inspiration from a recipe online at http://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-an-exfoliating-sea-salt-hand-scrub-projects-from-the-kitchen-213554 to make it. Last Christmas when we visited Florida, my companion picked up some for herself and thought it'd be refreshing to display it in a custom-made container rather than its current bowl setup. I created the 3D model by incorporating elements like sea shells, smoothing their surfaces, reducing mesh resolution for detail control, and even touching them up here and there. To make this project visually appealing, I also altered the shape of the bowl slightly to make it more defined and symmetrical. For the base of our new sea salt dispenser, I repurposed an existing nude woman figurine design in 3D and nestled the shell within its center, refining its dimensions to complement our custom hand scrub container. In addition to the changes made so far, the resolution has been optimized to minimize polygon count while maintaining desired visual clarity. As part of this collaboration effort, I included the complete Modo scene file - this should be quite helpful if anyone is interested in customizing their creation with additional elements or altering the current design. Let's take a closer look at assembling these two parts: Once you've got each individual element printed out and ready for installation, it would be ideal to glue or attach them together using acetone, as applicable. However, please make sure that the printing material doesn't react poorly with oil, particularly if your goal is something similar to our intended design (the bathroom storage system for sea salt). ABS plastic seems to hold up reasonably well after limited testing periods, although further experimentation would undoubtedly shed light on more specific insights. I think LayBrick could possibly be a bit too porous as an option.