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[Leman]

Really impressive.

[Hertsblue]

Excellent work, Michael. And I thought 10mm was pushing it for laser-cut buildings!

[WeeWars]

Thank you, gentlemen!

Excellent work, Michael. And I thought 10mm was pushing it for laser-cut buildings!

So I was led to believe – before I got my hands on a machine. Of course there are compromises to be made and not to everyone's taste.

[getagrip]

So I was led to believe – before I got my hands on a machine. Of course there are compromises to be made and not to everyone's taste.

We've got one at work which I have access to; the real difficulty is programming what you want.

Bit of trial and error for me at least

[fred.]

That 3mm scaled wall looks really good. I think it is because you have created a lot of detail with the doors and the exposed brickwork, and along the top of the wall too.

The most common complaint against MDF stuff is that it all looks flat - and you seem to have done a good job of making this look not flat. 

Looking forward to see what else you produce.

Regarding the earlier discussions around footprint vs height of buildings - I have played around with this a bit, and it seems possible to reduce the footprint a fair degree, while keeping the height correct, and still have the building look OK. I made a template for a cardboard version of the milk factory building near Arnhem bridge, as it had an enclosed court yard on 3 sides so was hard to find standard buildings to use. With this I dropped the footprint to about 1/300 while keeping the vertical heights to 1/150. If this is of interest I can find the files.

[Le Manchou]

Interesting Fred. So, it seems that a good compromise is to double the height. It would be on my 1/1 000 Scale maps a 1/600 footprint building with a 1/300 height. Magenta game was at 1/4 000 scale hence the buildings representing several houses.

[Westmarcher]

Well, smack my gob!   Very effective and convincing reproduction, Michael.  

Any compromises you've made are hardly discernible.  It really does give the viewer a good impression of that side of the actual farm complex.*

[fred 12df - if Michael doesn't mind, I for one would be interested to see how the 1/300 ground scale looks vs. the 1/150 height scale.]


*of course, some nerd will point out that the gate was used for firewood the night before .... am I being that nerd? ...... I'll get my coat .... 

 

[WeeWars]

Fred

Certainly, all plans and elevations are of interest and will be gratefully received.

To scale with 3mm figures, the frontage of La Haye Sainte complete with a small portion of orchard and most of the garden would extend to 200mm. My LHS is set to sit on a 60 x 40mm base.

I mentioned in reply to Ray that my answer to flat walls is to cover them with a slight wash of filler. This is one reason why I don't see the value in paying extra for MDF kits with pre-painted flat walls. The buildings I scratch-built for my WW1 project are basically flat-walled covered in filler. Of course, it took ages to measure and cut the card to make the buildings. I'm a much happier modeller now with laser-cut card and MDF!

Here's the same Gothic Ruin laser-cut model seen earlier in this topic with a splash of filler and painted – using the MDF 'bricks' as fallen debris.

Cheers, Michael

[getagrip]

That I superb; you would never know it's las-cut

[WeeWars]

Any compromises you've made are hardly discernible.  It really does give the viewer a good impression of that side of the actual farm complex.*

*of course, some nerd will point out that the gate was used for firewood the night before .... am I being that nerd? ...... I'll get my coat ....  

You needn't get your coat. You're right about a door but it wasn't the front gate. It was the west door of the barn. That entrance in my model will be open, as you say, without a door.

[WeeWars]

[fred 12df - if Michael doesn't mind, I for one would be interested to see how the 1/300 ground scale looks vs. the 1/150 height scale.]

I don't mind at all.    Now, where's the smiley with the halo over its head. Oh, yes, here it is.  

[Ken]

I think this is now appropriate.

[Westmarcher]

You needn't get your coat. You're right about a door but it wasn't the front gate. It was the west door of the barn. That entrance in my model will be open, as you say, without a door.

Well, smack my gob again! 

[Leman]

Wow, and what a great tip about filler.

[WeeWars]

Wow, and what a great tip about filler.

You're basically rendering your MDF buildings! MDF can initially resist filler so it can be an idea to spread a drop of water on the MDF ahead of the filler – it's a filler, after all, not a render. Alternatively, you might prefer a fine sand acrylic texture gel/medium like W&N and Liquitex sell – more expensive but with more gripping power because it's designed to be spread not designed to fill gaps.