A small product design studio came to us needing display models that looked like the real thing — not obviously printed. Transparent printing plus hand painting did the job.
The brief
The studio needed a handful of crystal-clear models for client presentations. Off-the-shelf prints looked rough and yellowed; they needed something presentable on a meeting table.
We printed in clear resin, then hand-sanded, polished and airbrushed subtle tints so the models read as finished products. Each piece took a few days end to end.
Hand-finished transparent display model
The result
The studio reported shorter pitch meetings and more signed contracts, because clients could hold the concept in their hands. We have since repeated the workflow for several of their projects.
Clients stopped asking whether it was real. That changed the whole conversation. — Studio founder