My First Foam Board Building

[PhilP]

You need another window...
'Lion eating Vulture!' ..

Hat, coat, door!

 

[pugwash]

Took a few minutes on google -
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All wrong, ask any printer.



Wish my heathen wife would let me use the kitchen - but she can keep the plonk, I'll have a beer

 

[Graham]

Next project this will be wood frame rather than bricks

 

[Paul M]

Another fantastic start there! How did you do the name?

 

[Graham]

Another fantastic start there! How did you do the name?

I bought a set of buildings from a war games website. The are designs that are intended to be printed onto paper in around 0 gauge. I import them as images into Photoshop and rescale them then use them as input into my cnc. So the text is part of the paper drawings and gets to be part of the outline that the cnc processes

 

[PhilP]

I bought a set of buildings from a war games website. The are designs that are intended to be printed onto paper in around 0 gauge. I import them as images into Photoshop and rescale them then use them as input into my cnc. So the text is part of the paper drawings and gets to be part of the outline that the cnc processes

A cnc 'what' are you using?
Pray tell. Looks to be a useful tool..

 

[Graham]

A cnc 'what' are you using?
Pray tell. Looks to be a useful tool..

It's a Stepcraft 420 which in theory has an A3 size bed. It is a cnc router rather than a milling machine. For design software I use Vcarve which will import both cad drawings as well as bit map. I tend to use the latter.

 

[Graham]

This is the machine which I bought via StoneyCNC. This is the stock machine which does not include the spindle shown as this is an optional extra of which I added a one Ana a few other bits

 

[Graham]

this is an example of the origin of the buildings and the one I am now working on. This is scanned into Photoshop cleaned up and rescaled Then it is imported into Vcarve where it is further cleaned up and the cut pits for the windows and doors and overall added.

The detailing for the wood planks (and the bricks in the previous ones) is made by using a home made rounded end scrubber which then traces the lines. The cut outs are done with a 1mm windmill.

This model will be a bit more involved than the previous ones as it will have a balcony and exterior stairs. I will also try to make the upper windows as they are sash type and I can't find any in the dolls house range to suit. The same goes for the main door.

This one is going to take some time as it will be interupted by a trip to spain to do the annual spruce up of the apartment ready for the summer invasion of daughters and their partners and off spring

 

[PhilP]

Thanks or sharing..
PhilP.

 

[Paul M]

That looks a very useful bit of kit. Can I assume that, with the right cutters, it'll work on wood?

 

[Graham]

That looks a very useful bit of kit. Can I assume that, with the right cutters, it'll work on wood?

Yes no problem these are a couple of things I have done.

 

[Paul M]

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Yes no problem these are a couple of things I have done.

Hmm it certainly is useful,

 

[Graham]

a bit more done today

 

[Graham]

well that is as far as I can go until we get back from Spain

 

[Graham]

Well back from sunny Spain to the wild and windy North but back to the latest project. Windows and door made ready to paint and glaze.

 

[Paul M]

Well back from sunny Spain to the wild and windy North but back to the latest project. Windows and door made ready to paint and glaze.View attachment 234589 View attachment 234590

Smashing building! Where do the figures come from?

 

[Graham]

Smashing building! Where do the figures come from?

They are Preiser and I have collected a few for for the eventual wild west town in the late 1800's.

 

[Paul M]

They are Preiser and I have collected a few for for the eventual wild west town in the late 1800's.

Cheers, I'll look out for some

 

[stockers]

A great building, and I too like the Presier figures - nicely detailed.