I had an interesting enquiry a few weeks ago to make a Fabergé-style egg. Initially the enquiry was about painting some miniatures on the base that would support the egg but expanded to include the whole piece.

I'd been wanting to try out a computer aided design (CAD) package called Blender for a while and this seemed like a good opportunity to do so.  I was amazed how life-like the finished rendered model looks. Blender allows scripting in Python computer language (which I like), so I was able to produce the egg shape from a mathematical formula, pretty cool! Here's the preliminary model design: