Hi All
I've just got a 1/148 laser cut junk from Aliexpress and I looked around at laser cutting and I came across this site http://onlinelasercutting.com.au/ (http://onlinelasercutting.com.au/) and was thinking of maybe having a go at something created in Pepakura. Materials available are 1mm plywood, 1.5mm acrylic and 1.5mm cardboard (thicker stuff also available).
Anyone tried any of this sort of stuff?
Cheers
GrumpyOldMan
Interesting service, I don't know of anything like that in the UK, although I'd assume there's one somewhere. We've got a laser machine here for the bases and buildings, so we've never needed to look. They've got some interesting wood options as well, I might do some digging about and see if any of those are suitable/available in the UK.
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1/144 scale Noah's Arks in laser-cut gopher wood? :)
Quote from: Ithoriel on 22 January 2015, 12:01:28 AM
1/144 scale Noah's Arks in laser-cut gopher wood? :)
The ark would be ok but collecting the vector graphics of all the animals would take ages :D :D :D
Quick look on google came up with these guys
http://www.razorlab.co.uk/
There is a workshop in either Chester or Elesmere Port which lets people do cutting for themselves at a small charge. Sorry this vauge, not got many details.
IanS
Quote from: Leon on 21 January 2015, 11:59:37 PM
Interesting service, I don't know of anything like that in the UK, although I'd assume there's one somewhere. We've got a laser machine here for the bases and buildings, so we've never needed to look. They've got some interesting wood options as well, I might do some digging about and see if any of those are suitable/available in the UK.
Yes, there are many, many laser cutting services in the UK.
http://www.subconlaser.co.uk/?gclid=CL785Ji0p8MCFezHtAodhAEAog (http://www.subconlaser.co.uk/?gclid=CL785Ji0p8MCFezHtAodhAEAog)
http://www.cut-tec.co.uk/laser-cutting/?gclid=CNKgyN61p8MCFdHMtAodfDAA3Q (http://www.cut-tec.co.uk/laser-cutting/?gclid=CNKgyN61p8MCFdHMtAodfDAA3Q)
http://www.lasercutit.co.uk/ (http://www.lasercutit.co.uk/)
And training available:
http://www.edinburghlaserstudio.org.uk/Homepage.html (http://www.edinburghlaserstudio.org.uk/Homepage.html)
There are also 'labs' where laser cutters are available for you to work on your own projects.
http://edinburghhacklab.com/ (http://edinburghhacklab.com/)
And lots of laserable sheet material:
http://hobarts.com/sheet-materials_124/ (http://hobarts.com/sheet-materials_124/)