Relief map of Mount LeConte to scale

[ClayJar (Nathaniel Klumb)]

I finished composing my full tutorial for how I made this model (and several others now). You can find it here:

Easy (or at least straightforward) Terrain Relief Models

Easy (or at least straightforward) Terrain Relief Models I promised to write up my process for making high-resolution terrain relief model carvings. This is how I currently do it. The process is easy enough that I can prepare a new area in just a few minutes, and for a 150-170mm square carving with a 1/4" ball nose roughing pass and a tapered mill finishing pass at a stepover of 0.25mm or so, the machine time is somewhere in the 2-3 hour range. So, on to the instructions. Preparing Your Digi…