Stormtrooper Easter egg

Nicola sez, "I made this for my husband last weekend and he mentioned in passing that he thought I should send it in to you. I created it using a CraftRobo Pro cutter/ plotter, a stencil I made in illustrator and some sticky backed plastic and then painted over it with matt acrylic paint. Tidying up any areas that went wrong with a scalpel (you can etch slightly into the egg if need be). He loves it. I think I'll have to make him a new one each year until he has an army!"

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That’s one tough looking trooper. You might even say hardboiled.
http://www.facebook.com/roger.brumlow Roger Brumlow

Looks like a Stormtrooper with an afro and a beard.
http://www.facebook.com/dpease Dave Pease

it looks great. that said when i saw the picture i expected the project description to be ‘i did this with a sharpie and about ten minutes’.
- enterthestory
  
  You don’t understand progress. Why spend ten minutes with a sharpie when you can spend hundreds of dollars and a couple of hours with a CraftRobo Pro cutter/ plotter, Adobe illustrator, a stencil, some sticky backed plastic, matt acrylic paint and a scalpel? All that technology to makes our lives so much easier. Next thing you will be saying she should have created her own art instead of using pre-packaged megacorp imagery. Though it does concern me that there was no mention of paying any licensing fees.
  - CvilleJohn1234
    
    Holy cow, the harshness! Look, there’s no way this could be made to look so good with a sharpie, especially in 10 minutes. It took tech smarts wedded to a cute idea. I couldn’t do it. Hat’s off.