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@Malika: I saw their notice about that - I'm not actually sure if that impacts what I'm doing. Wax is an important step for metal casting, but since I work in resin I don't think it makes too much of a difference. Interesting that they announced it at the beginning of summer - I'd be afraid of the post guy leaving the box on my front step and my models melting into a plastic bag filled with goo
A wax print means you don't have to spent hours cleaning it up since it'll already be smooth. I've seen companies who also cast in resin and plastic use wax prints, so it's not only for metal casting.
White Dragon Miniatures is one such company. As for the wax melting, it's a bit stronger than that, I've heard stories of it even surviving the casting process. Besides, if there were anything wrong with the model upon delivery, just contact Shapeways, and they'll send you a new one.
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If you look at the material page it doesn't strike me as particularly useful for something like this - for a start it's a small bounding box
75mm x 75mm x 50mm? For epic scaled stuff that's pretty big already. But I guess they're still in their experimental phase, lets see how it'll work out lets say next year...
