New member seeking advice

[Rob Wol]

Wow! That's great!
Nice job :)

[black5f]

Wow! That's great!
Nice job :)

Hey, cheers ,mate! Took about an hour to cut but I was in front of the fire the whole time drinking a dram or two! The material I found on the garage floor, some of that awful white paper faced chipboard which I sprayed black with car paint! Basically, everythings like my photography, if you want a pic of a steam engine you could use to build a model, I'm you're man, but creativity, forget it. So I hunted down some help and found these:

http://www.students.tut.fi/~syvajar3/

http://jasondorie.com/page_cnc.html

Wonderful stuff and free. As I said, now I wish I could cut a lot larger because mines 360 x 200 x 70 mm, fine if you want a set gauge O coupling rods! ;-)

Tom

[black5f]

If you meander around my flikr there is some other stuff I cut. some of the parts of the NG15 are done on the mill, the 8f is BNC (before numerical control!) and the mech is filed out of solid by hand.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK4I9wCRHyA
Playing with v carving letters. I spend most of my time modding the electronics, rewriting the homebrew software etc, very little doing the making stuff thing. Best to decide now what you want to do :-)
Tom

[Tenson]

What material did you use for that? Looks impressive :)

[black5f]

What material did you use for that? Looks impressive :)

It really is some old white paper faced chipboard sprayed in black car paint!

Tom