Interesting. Could you post the type and model of the device, please?
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Very nicely done!
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Nice work, and no need for quotations around the word art.
Very nice indeed.
Lovely work, Brennan! I see a cottage industry in your future... What thickness plywood did you use? 3mm?
All the best,
Matt
Very nice and as Matt said a cottage industry. I am sure there are places that would sell your art.
I could see using a couple of 'em on top of one of my counters boxes... Any chance of some WWI versions in your/our future?
All the best,
Matt
I needed some for my Fridge!!!
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Looks good!
thanks guys, it's just 3mm baltic birch plywood on those. I have some veneered plywood I use as well but that just makes them more expensive (share $3 CAD for these, it would be about $7 CAD for one out of a veneered plywood)
WW1 ones would be doable if I could find high resolution images like the ones here and trace them, but that will take me a lot longer than the WW2 and newer planes where I can generally find a vector image and clean it up a little.
Again very Nice, two thoughts, one is a micro/nano size, say 2" wingspan on 1/16" plywood. The second would be to do them on thin acrylic? Just pondering . . .
Is the art you need something online that you'd need to find or is it something that can be scanned by you and then manipulated? I have a wonderful book of 3-view drawings of WWI planes - the drawings are in 1/72 scale, if I remember correctly...
I would be happy to photocopy several of them and send 'em along to you if you wanted to give 'em a try...
Regardless - I love what you've done here!
All the best,
Matt
Going thinner on the plywood won't really work with the technique I'm using; And if I switch to one that would work for for it then the 2" span planes would take the same amount of time as these 6" span planes. I will scale it down to about a 2" span and see how well it works on 1/8" wood though. The laser does detail very well but for materials and techniques there is always a detail limit.
I really like working with acrylic (prefer it actually) but except for clear you don't get a ton of contrast out of it when you laser it so you either need to paint fill it after the fact or use the fancy 2 colour acrylics. That is on my to try list but I am still dialing in the settings on that material. It however would work pretty well at 1/16" thick and smaller
@matt. What I look for is vector graphics; that way they scale perfectly (vectors are all math vs a picture that is pixels). With what I have been doing so far its about a 30 min process to have the first plane done but without a vector I have to trace all the lines by hand in the program first which is... well not as fast lol.
My younger son, who's doing a graphic design course at the career center, explained vector graphics a bit - I understand. I just googled 'Fokker DVII vector graphics' and a bunch of things came up - one site, the-blueprints.com, looks like it might have lots of WWI stuff, but they're for sale/purchase the downloadable vector graphic image...
Very interesting concept you have going there, Brennan - I look forward to what you continue to do with it!
All the best,
Matt
They are really cool - I am sure there would be a market for them if you went into production
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Well I did a test 2" wing span plane and it came out better than expected. With some elimination of details in certain areas to keep the over burning to a minimum I could make them. However, I only peeled the masking off the front half of the plane (you can see the different colour).... if anyone wanted to buy a squadron they would be responsible for peeling them because it is just way to small.
thanks for that site matt! those are pretty great planes and at about $15 each for plans it isn't a bad price at all. I may have to purchase a couple
As for production, It's my laser and I have the files already so I have no issues just running one offs when people want them; shipping might just be a bit much lol.
With that wingspan, Brennan, that FW is a monster! But look at that detail - and the crispness of the lines is awesome
All the best,
Matt
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