Hi everyone,
For the past few weeks, I've been busy scanning, then enlarging and tracing in Corel Draw parts to be hopefully turned into the HM Granado. I have based the model so far on the 1:96 Shipyard kit using the bulkheads and a few other parts that I could readily envision being useful. As you guys probably know, Shipyard kits are printed on cardstock and the bulkheads are printed on plain thick bond paper meant to be laminated to board and then cut out. My idea was to enlarge everything to 1:64 and send the parts off to be laser cut as I don't have a shop nor a scroll saw. Lasers happily work with vector files so I traced all the parts from 600 dpi scans and blew them up to 150% in Corel Draw. The parts came back yesterday with the bulkheads on 3mm Baltic birch and all the others on 1.5mm cherry. I was a happy guy so please excuse my snap happiness with the camera when the bulkheads came together with just a little bit of sanding. Of course there will be more sanding to take down edges etc but it won't be long before the glue comes out! I also picked up a few sheets of basswood to create the decks and a few other structural pieces. Anyways..sorry for droning on. I trust I will hear from you should I get this all 'arsey versey'!
For the past few weeks, I've been busy scanning, then enlarging and tracing in Corel Draw parts to be hopefully turned into the HM Granado. I have based the model so far on the 1:96 Shipyard kit using the bulkheads and a few other parts that I could readily envision being useful. As you guys probably know, Shipyard kits are printed on cardstock and the bulkheads are printed on plain thick bond paper meant to be laminated to board and then cut out. My idea was to enlarge everything to 1:64 and send the parts off to be laser cut as I don't have a shop nor a scroll saw. Lasers happily work with vector files so I traced all the parts from 600 dpi scans and blew them up to 150% in Corel Draw. The parts came back yesterday with the bulkheads on 3mm Baltic birch and all the others on 1.5mm cherry. I was a happy guy so please excuse my snap happiness with the camera when the bulkheads came together with just a little bit of sanding. Of course there will be more sanding to take down edges etc but it won't be long before the glue comes out! I also picked up a few sheets of basswood to create the decks and a few other structural pieces. Anyways..sorry for droning on. I trust I will hear from you should I get this all 'arsey versey'!