Wow, wow... I'm getting late here.

teapot your #476 is Great, the look is awesome.
Skinnyhouse thanks a lot for your answer on #477, also your latest Faux3D is impressive
racer-x your metallic leaf effect is fantastic!

Sallyanne about this (below)

There is 1 slider you do need to push at first to see what you will get
It's the "Max Angle"


Then just after move the "Y-Angle" to put the letter back in the good direction


Now you can start to play with all sliders to see what they do

Also one thing very important, you DO NOT do the "full word" at once, but letter by letter for example make the letter G, then once rendered by G'MIC, made the letter I, and so, one letter at a time (that's very important),
Tip: no need to re-open G'MIC for the next letter, if your setting are good and happy with the first rendering, just do a Ctrl+F on the next letter/layer and G'MIC will keep the setting and render the next letter in no time with your previous setting or you can tell G'MIC to apply to "All layer" as input

Exploring the gaps in some characters...

Cool guys. I find that lathing is a little difficult to master Rod, so dont use it so much. I see you have it down pat straight away.

While playing with an effect like the one Wallace used in #753 - this one produced an interesting look (although not the same)...