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    Default Some laser cut plane "art"

    I've been playing with my laser cutter and really liked how these turned out. I thought at least two of them might be appreciated here

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    Interesting. Could you post the type and model of the device, please?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nightbomber View Post
    Interesting. Could you post the type and model of the device, please?
    done on a glowforge basic laser cutter out of plywood

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    Very nicely done!
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    Nice work, and no need for quotations around the word art.

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    Lovely work, Brennan! I see a cottage industry in your future... What thickness plywood did you use? 3mm?

    All the best,
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    Very nice and as Matt said a cottage industry. I am sure there are places that would sell your art.

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    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?

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    I needed some for my Fridge!!!
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    Looks good!

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    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.

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    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 . . .

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    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,
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    Quote Originally Posted by clipper1801 View Post
    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 . . .
    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.

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    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,
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    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.
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    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.

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    Bought some plans off the blueprints site to do a Focke-Wulf 190 for a friend who's grandpa built them during the war.

    VERY high quality files, this has ~16" wingspan and is out of MDF
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    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,
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    Another excellent bit of work.

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    Looks like a good way how to personalise the markes for crashed minis in a Pyrköl way:

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    They look great on the table, but maybe the scale could be a problem.

    Or perfect way how to prepare and aircraft carrier playable on the mat!

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    Dressed up my keys a little
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