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/ 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.

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 

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.cut-tec.co.uk/laser-cutting/?gclid=CNKgyN61p8MCFdHMtAodfDAA3Q

http://www.lasercutit.co.uk/

And training available:

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/

And lots of laserable sheet material:

http://hobarts.com/sheet-materials_124/