Made on Epilog

[David Fairfield]

Just finished this 1/87 scale model of the old Boston & Maine RR station at Weston, MA. The model is assembled entirely from paper, cardboard, acetate and plywood engraved and cut on the laser. I think it shows the sharp quality miniature work I can do on my 35w Epilog Mini 24, working off Adobe Illustrator files. I'm really pleased with it.

Dave

[David Fairfield]

A few details. The window panes are cut from an ordinary manila file folder.

[David Fairfield]

The ladder is cut from 1mm plywood. You'd think it would disintigrate but it holds together nicely, and can be flexed pretty far before uh-oh.

[David Fairfield]

I'm most chuffed about the chimney. Its lasered from a single square piece of wood. Each side got a burn, I used a cardboard jig to hold it in the same place after each rotation.

Still trying to get the hang of the 3-D effect feature, but I think the texture came out really well, especially considering the microscopic size of each brick

[David Fairfield]

The bench design came out nicely too, the laser just cuts exactly what you tell it to.

Well thats all for now. Anyone else doing model work? If anyone has questions about miniature work I'll try and answer.

Dave

[Tom Bull]

Very cool.

[Darren Null]

That is incredible. We are not worthy! *Tugs forelock respectfully*

[Skip Weiser]

That is just too cool, David. Extremely well done! Thanks for sharing.

Skip

[Dee Gallo]

Dave, that is outstanding! Are the roof tiles individual pieces or is the 3-D pattern just that good? The chimney is fabulous - looks just like old time bricks with that rough texture, perfect! Your painting skills are pretty good too, on such tiny pieces. All in all an excellent job, thanks for showing it off!

cheers, dee

[Pete Simmons]

Very Nice.

[Robert Ray]

Very nice work David! I love all the detail!

I too have cut some B&M models. Here is a Laconia Built Buggy:


And here is a Narrow Monitor buggy, in N Scale:

[Steven Smith]

Originally Posted by David Fairfield

Just finished this 1/87 scale model of the old Boston & Maine RR station at Weston, MA. The model is assembled entirely from paper, cardboard, acetate and plywood engraved and cut on the laser. I think it shows the sharp quality miniature work I can do on my 35w Epilog Mini 24, working off Adobe Illustrator files. I'm really pleased with it.

Dave

From a former railroader, I'd say that's pretty nice. What program did you use to set up the cuts? I used to have a N scale setup and did a lot of scratch building, but my eyes made it more difficult to work so small. Nice work.

[Ed Maloney]

Holy Crap! A very cool creation of the house! How long did it take you to cut and assemple the final product?

[Kim Vellore]

Dave,
I did not know you were making models, Love your work the chimney looks very real. We got to meet and talk, I would love to see your model work. I am all into it too.I got my laser after I saw what Robert could do with his laser.
Here is a park bench for example ...



these are using 1/64" plywood, card stock, Plastic. The bricks at the bottom is made by scoring card stock,



The completed station




Here with plywood and paper.


End result... Every thing made with a laser, including the snowplough


One more all made with a laser..





These are only a few examples of things that I could do because of the laser.


Kim
Epilog 24TT 45 Watts

[Rodne Gold]

All those models are wonderful......really excellent.
They look like they took a lot of time and thought and incredibly detailed effort.......Well done to all