My girlfriend works for a company that was having a cake making contest recently. This company has its own registered tartan (yes, individual tartan patterns can be registered) and a logo of an eagle which looks pretty cool and we figured would look even better all made out of icing.

A quick google for “tartan icing” reveals minimal decent results and what is there is mostly just printed patterns rather than hand-made. There wasn’t much in the way of eagle cutter shapes in the baking section at Tesco either so we had to come up with our own plan and, as is getting much more common with me, get some parts 3D printed by Shapeways.

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Last summer I wrote about 3D printing a replacement gear for a mechanical device in my office at Fivium. This topic came up recently while talking to one of the directors during the company’s 10th birthday party and I mentioned how it was a fairly simple thing to do, fun and how much I’d like to do it more yet the cost of paying a third party to print is a high barrier for personal projects.

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