After studying various pictures of the Golden Snitch and then trying to reason out how the original prop was made, I finally figured out how I could make a set using available materials and the tools I have. It's made of a pewter-like material (50063M) which I cut out using an X-Acto knife.
They are every bit as fragile as they look! :unsure One of the feathers has already broken off which I hope I'll be able to glue back on.
I have a pair of Turbo Sausage's Golden Snitches. I believe his design and model are very accurate.
Shapeway's description of this version though was "smoothed and polished". I do understand that the 3-D printer process works on depositing successive layers of resin, but to call this "smoothed and polished" is a bit of a stretch. The next part of this project will be to actually smooth and polish the plastic without removing all the detail so that I can apply gold leaf to it.
I plan to mount the wings out to the sides as in this picture:
Not sure yet how that'll be done.
ATL