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benjaminography Knight
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| Subject: laser cut plywood house experiment Mon 29 Nov 2010 - 15:01 | |
| after several hours sweat on adobe illustrator, managed to laser cut a five floor house, with stairs. i plan to flesh out future ones with damage and paneling. check out our group's blog hereedit: can't get my images to show. they are linked from my blogger. if you can see them let me know. follow the link to see them anyway. | |
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Grimscull Etheral
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| Subject: Re: laser cut plywood house experiment Mon 29 Nov 2010 - 17:13 | |
| That's a great house. I don't know how laser cutting works, how expensive or time consuming it is, but the result looks great. Two things though: - it doesn't look like a ruin to me. More like a house that's not finished yet. The craftsmen went for lunch to get the roof done later - isn't it a bit on the big size? both to store and, more importantly, gameplaywise? I imagine it would take a model half a game to get from bottom to top | |
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DeafNala Admin
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| Subject: Re: laser cut plywood house experiment Mon 29 Nov 2010 - 18:23 | |
| WOW...my first post disappeared...Oh Well. That REALLY is quite a SPECTACULAR building, well worth the time spent producing it. FINE WORK! | |
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benjaminography Knight
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| Subject: Re: laser cut plywood house experiment Mon 29 Nov 2010 - 19:03 | |
| cheers for the comments!
laser cutting costs me nothing as im a lecturer at the art college where it lives conveniently. this was just a makette to prove it could work, so future buildings are to be destroyed.
i think im going to make the roofing from a thinner material so i can layer tiles without it becoming too bulky. also im going to engrave brick patterns and wooden planks onto the floors of future cuts.
it is a little tall, but the plan of out boards is that you can have an entire battle numerous stories up due to makeshift bridges and walls. a building this tall though would be a centrepiece building though.
as far as storage goes....yeah...it gets worse when i eventually tell you all about the 2' hexagonal modular terrain system we developed. | |
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Von Kurst Distinguished Poster
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| Subject: Re: laser cut plywood house experiment Mon 29 Nov 2010 - 21:44 | |
| Great first posts! Including a model would help determine scale. Laser cutting depends on access to the tools which is quite limited at the moment. Several miniature scenery companies have tried to make a go of such production with mixed results. There was a pseudo-Mordheim line a few years ago (The Tower of Terror is one offering I remember.) | |
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DeafNala Admin
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| Subject: Re: laser cut plywood house experiment Mon 29 Nov 2010 - 23:37 | |
| - benjaminography wrote:
- as far as storage goes....yeah...it gets worse when i eventually tell you all about the 2' hexagonal modular terrain system we developed.
Now that's a coincidence...my friend, Old John, has built a hexagon table to accommodate the Geo-Hex terrain tiles I sent him way back when. It will be interesting/enlightening to see what you do with the concept. | |
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benjaminography Knight
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| Subject: Re: laser cut plywood house experiment Tue 30 Nov 2010 - 11:02 | |
| - DeafNala wrote:
- benjaminography wrote:
- as far as storage goes....yeah...it gets worse when i eventually tell you all about the 2' hexagonal modular terrain system we developed.
Now that's a coincidence...my friend, Old John, has built a hexagon table to accommodate the Geo-Hex terrain tiles I sent him way back when. It will be interesting/enlightening to see what you do with the concept. oh cool. what were the geo hex tiles like? we were going to use mini hexagons to create a city map, sort of like the expanded campaign system with the nodes. the larger hexagons would then be representative of the mini ones. | |
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benjaminography Knight
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| Subject: Re: laser cut plywood house experiment Tue 30 Nov 2010 - 16:53 | |
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Grimscull Etheral
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| Subject: Re: laser cut plywood house experiment Tue 30 Nov 2010 - 19:25 | |
| Now THAT is a great ruin! And also works better gameplaywise, I'm sure. | |
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DeafNala Admin
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| Subject: Re: laser cut plywood house experiment Tue 30 Nov 2010 - 23:14 | |
| VERY NICE LOOKING building & minis! The laser cut certainly produces an EXCELLENT model...it's a method used by some of the better model railroad scenery makers, like Bar Mills. - benjaminography wrote:
- DeafNala wrote:
- benjaminography wrote:
- as far as storage goes....yeah...it gets worse when i eventually tell you all about the 2' hexagonal modular terrain system we developed.
Now that's a coincidence...my friend, Old John, has built a hexagon table to accommodate the Geo-Hex terrain tiles I sent him way back when. It will be interesting/enlightening to see what you do with the concept. oh cool. what were the geo hex tiles like? we were going to use mini hexagons to create a city map, sort of like the expanded campaign system with the nodes. the larger hexagons would then be representative of the mini ones. Originally I had picked up several boxes of Geo-Hex terrain to be used in an AD&D Campaign I was involved in; HOWEVER, the terrain lost the battle for table space to the onion dips & chips. Geo-Hex tiles were at one time the state of the art table-top terrain system. The tiles are about 6 3/4" per side & 1' from side to side. They're made of a sturdy packing style foam board with either one side flocked & the other painted or both flocked with a road imprinted on one side. There are beveled pieces for slopes & river sides (our table is done up with a water effect). In addition to the normal tiles I have a rough terrain & sunken road set plus the custom ones I'm doing for spooky woods. The table itself is a hexagon with 42" sides & a little over 6' across. There is or was a company producing small unpainted hex tiles. I'll try to find out their name & current availability for you. | |
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Tewfik Warlord
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| Subject: Re: laser cut plywood house experiment Wed 1 Dec 2010 - 19:58 | |
| Wow that turned out great!! cant wait to see more!! | |
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Svenn Venerable Ancient
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| Subject: Re: laser cut plywood house experiment Wed 1 Dec 2010 - 19:59 | |
| This looks really cool! What a great idea. Definitely keep em coming. | |
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REminenz Champion
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| Subject: Re: laser cut plywood house experiment Fri 3 Dec 2010 - 0:47 | |
| Great work! Would you mind sharing your illustrator files with us? | |
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benjaminography Knight
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| Subject: Re: laser cut plywood house experiment Fri 3 Dec 2010 - 12:55 | |
| Yeah that would be no problem. They are a bit complicated, and construction is quite experimentative. I'm going to put together a User-Friendly version as a teaching aide, so I'll put that one up when its done! | |
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