Model Makers website...
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In Chigh P.I.
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Great stuff, ive seen a few of these in museums and also in a professional capacity (construction projects), although ive never met the actuall makers of the pieces.
wasnt Albert Speer one of the first to do that sort of thing? (never met him either unfortunately, a little before my time)
wasnt Albert Speer one of the first to do that sort of thing? (never met him either unfortunately, a little before my time)
Einion
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Well on the one hand it\'s doing something you love for a living... on the other hand there\'s nothing like doing something as a job to suck all the joy out of it, as the saying goes.
3D modelling machine. One type is a box with a laser and a pool of liquid resin inside, the laser hardens the resin bit by bit within the pool and working layer by layer they can make complex three-dimensional shapes, even with voids inside.
Einion
Talion
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I love those models.
my brother in law has just start doing a lot of rapid prototyping for war ships.
www.gwylanmodels.co.uk
also photoetching, the level of detail you can get in both is quite amazing.
my brother in law has just start doing a lot of rapid prototyping for war ships.
www.gwylanmodels.co.uk
also photoetching, the level of detail you can get in both is quite amazing.
nels0nmac
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I\'ve been an architectural modelmaker for the past 12 years. Tis certainly one of the best jobs around.
I don\'t find that it sucks the joy out of doing something I enjoy. Quite the opposite in fact, I love making models of buildings and such. It is sufficiently different from painting minis that I can enjoy both. Plus the benefit of being a pro modelmaker means I have access to machines and processes to enhance my figures without having to fork out large amounts of money.
@ supervike. The basic tools to do my job are a bandsaw, a table top circular saw, a disc sander and a pillar drill. Optional niceties are a lathe or a milling machine. Nowadays a laser cutter or a CNC machine are very useful if you can afford them. A suitable laser machine would set you back in the region of £15k - £20k
The only problem being in architecture is that there is not a lot going on at the moment so things are very quiet making things a bit tight financially
I don\'t find that it sucks the joy out of doing something I enjoy. Quite the opposite in fact, I love making models of buildings and such. It is sufficiently different from painting minis that I can enjoy both. Plus the benefit of being a pro modelmaker means I have access to machines and processes to enhance my figures without having to fork out large amounts of money.
@ supervike. The basic tools to do my job are a bandsaw, a table top circular saw, a disc sander and a pillar drill. Optional niceties are a lathe or a milling machine. Nowadays a laser cutter or a CNC machine are very useful if you can afford them. A suitable laser machine would set you back in the region of £15k - £20k
The only problem being in architecture is that there is not a lot going on at the moment so things are very quiet making things a bit tight financially
