ThinkSee3D Ltd

19/07/2025

Our latest replica, the unwrapped Galloway Hoard Vessel, as it might have looked 1,200 years ago. A combined CT & photogrammetry model, 3D printed, then electro encapsulated in silver, with hand painted gold & niello decorations. The decorations show fire temples, leopards, and tigers. The original was likely Sogdian (near modern day Iran) and would have travelled 1000's of miles along the silk road. It ended up buried and full of treasure in a remote churchyard in Galloway, Scotland. Made for but soon on its way to Melbourne, Australia.

04/07/2025

Earlier this year, we made this replica iron age strap junction, part of the newly discovered Melsonby hoard, for York Museum Trust. This simulates how it looked out of the ground, including simulated mud. The bronze and coral decorations are enhanced. Scan by 360 Heritage.

25/06/2025

ThinkSee3D 3D replica skull at the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival recently. This was on the Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre table but will soon be on display at the museum. Thanks to Chris Moore for commissioning this work and for finding the original.

07/06/2025

It was nice to see our work on TV this week, on BBC1's the One Show. Part of ThinkSee3D's ongoing 3D work on Britain's largest ever found articulated Ichthyosaurus, named the Rutland Sea Dragon. Thanks Nigel Larkin and Dean Lomax for recommending us.

03/06/2025

Two ThinkSee3D replicas made earlier this year for Reading Museum; both are Roman Silchester objects. The stone is a Roman column base with some Ogham text (a text mostly found in Ireland and rarely in England). This one was CNC carved by the brilliant Piotr in real sandstone from a TS3D 3D scan and in front 2 copies of a Roman tile with dog paw prints. Thanks to the equally brilliant Miguel for help moulding and casting these tiles from an in-house CNC carving.

02/06/2025

Very excited to present a short film for the The One Show about the ‘Rutland Sea Dragon’. Be sure to tune in!

For those in the UK, check it out this WEDNESDAY at 7pm on BBC One. Consider this a little taster of where we’re up to and what’s to come. It’s a huge project and one that will take time to reveal all its secrets.

Discovered at Rutland Water Nature Reserve, England, by Joe Davis, the ‘Rutland Sea Dragon’ is a 10-metre-long ichthyosaur skeleton. It was great to film with Joe, Nigel Larkin and the Manchester Museum with cool footage from ThinkSee3D Ltd.

It was nice to be back on The One Show. Thanks to Chwarel for a great film. Past Preservers.

I hope you enjoy this little film. As one of the greatest finds in British palaeontological history, the discovery deserves its own full documentary. Watch this space.

29/03/2025

15/03/2025

Below is a wonderful video from National Museums Scotland about the Galloway Hoard on tour in South Australia. This is one of the most significant Viking-age discoveries of recent times with some spectacular objects contained inside a likely Sogdian vessel. The vessel shown in the video is the replica made by us for the exhibition in only 3 weeks back in 2021. Our involvement in this project is ongoing so watch this space.

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09/03/2025

It was wonderful to 3D scan and model the world famous Rosetta Stone for the British Museum last autumn. The resulting digital model, shown below, will be 3D printed in Italy to make a 1 to 1 scale replica for a museum in Turin. It was one of the most challenging objects to scan, probably of all time, because the Rosetta Stone is fairly large, and has an awful lot of dense text on it, all of which had to be captured in the 3D surface geometry (and not just in the texture files). It was scanned in the museum before opening hours over 3 sessions.

03/12/2024

Earlier this year Steve Dey from created a new high-resolution digital 3D model of the iconic Megalosaurus jawbone to celebrate the bicentenary of the discovery of this Oxfordshire dinosaur!

This week we are celebrating everything to do with 3D models and printing, and how much they can contribute to the field of palaeontology. If you want to view this 3D model online with 8k colour texture, you can find it on our SketchFab https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/megalosaurus-dentary-b65f15a0292745e49203a4e6a7a01fd5

13/11/2024

Here's a project we completed earlier in the summer. Next year marks the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth so we were honoured to be asked to 3D scan the table where the great author was purported to have written and a first edition of Pride and Prejudice for

16/08/2024

Love this display about replicas of the famous first recognised bone (a Megalosaurus dentary) by Dr Emma Nicholls , Oxford University Museum of Natural History, featuring in the centre a ThinkSee3D replica (from a scan earlier this year) & a copy of William Buckland's own copy (in plaster). Plus, a replica from a CT scan from my old university showing internal structures and teeth.