Cycles SSS seemingly incorrect colour for thin surfaces or small objects

Question

I'm trying to get a similar material to the plastic of a 3D print which is largely dominated by subsurface scattering (SSS):

However, a very simple SSS test in cycles produces this:

There's an awful lot of lot of blue (I assume back-scattered light) at the corners that I can't get rid of. The same happens at smaller detailed bits of geometry in other tests.

A simple answer is I've buggered up the properties and just need to change some numbers. If this isn't the case,

1. Is this simply a failure case of the current SSS method in cycles or the lack of some other physical phenomenon that isn't being modelled?

2. Can this be avoided easily? If it's necessary to set up a complex network of nodes to hide the effect then maybe it's not worth the effort.

[EDIT]
OK, it doesn't look like forward/back scattering has anything to do with it. Small objects simply have the wrong colour, as in the following image. I'm pretty sure if I shaved off a chunk of my model it wouldn't turn blue/green.

Objects on the left have 0 sharpness while objects on the right have 1 which seems to alleviate the problem a little. I would have thought this is the wrong way round given the look (maybe sharpness should be roughness instead).

Answer 1

Without seeing your current setup (what you've already done), it's a little hard to say exactly what is going on and how to change it..

Here's what I came up with after a bit of fiddling (just trying to match the reference image by eye):

Answer 2

Note about scatter radius in Cycles:

Because of the way this scattering is calculated, when using large radius values, you will notice fringing artifacts that appear as the complementary color to the predominant color of the scattering. Above, you see in the last image a bluish band in the illuminated area. This is an unfortunate limitation. A way to lessen this effect is use multiple passes with different scatter radii, and average them.

for more info: visit:http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Materials/Properties/Subsurface_Scattering

Example of multiple passes:Brecht's Six Layers SSS

For the default SSS shader node to generate it's correct effect,set the radius RGB levels to low values to get a accurate results,EDITit seems that the scale to ratio is off,the formula should look like this s1.00 = bu1.00,but it's more like s1.00 = bu100.00 or s.100 = bu1.00,just try it with a low level of scale .100 and left the radius level at R1.00G.500B.250 and it gave the same exact results as leaving the scale at 1.00,but lowering the Radius RGB values R.100G.050B.025,no more blueish tint:

Example1:

Scale value:

scale = 1.00

Radius Values:

Red(R) = .100

Green(G) = .050

Blue(B) = .025

Example2:

Scale value:

scale = .100

Radius Values:

Red(R) = 1.00

Green(G) = .500

Blue(B) = .250