Incomming!! :)

[PhillyDee]

Omg! They are fantastic!

[The-Engraver]

WOW!!!

[tweakie]

Brilliant work Dave, just brilliant - I especially love the train.

Tweakie.

[Spooky]

Thanks guys

I'll get some more pictures up later, The Amity House is my personal favourite, the design has cost a shed load to get finished but I'm already getting a lot of registered pre-orders for the dolls house version

I'm trying my best to get away from actual production and just stick to selling the plans but demand has meant I'd be daft to ignore production totally. I only really had the laser to test cut every plan before sale but as it was there I took a few cutting jobs on and it all went a bit mad. Soon be time though to cut down on production or I'm not going to have the time for new jobs

Tweakie, if you like that train wait till you see the steam train and 1938 style London Underground train

best wishes

Dave

ps: The free downloads section is going back up on my site over the weekend so will be a load of new small projects to play with

[PhillyDee]

How do you go about designing these things? Just getting a feel for the process.

Seriously impressive! How much do you sell the plans for?
Ever though of an online store? I use Zencart, which is able to handle digital downloads as part of its cart. That way you could sell both the plans and the parts directly.

[bobg]

Great work Dave!

Bob

[Spooky]

Hiya Phil,

I'm an architectural draughtsman by day so design isn't too much of a problem.After uni I trained as an engineer (as the idea of science didn't interest me back then). It all rolled into one really, designing load bearing structures for big curtain wall gave me the design skills,being an engineer helped me learn about lasers an construction methodology as well as machining processes, my uni days of flow dynamics and particle physics gave me the limitations I knew I had to stay within.To top it all off, I'm autistic so I have close to a photographic memory so can learn very quickly

Designs go usually in the following order..

Initial Idea
Model (+ research original specifications and dimensions)
Cut
Test
Refine

I will get round to an online store but I have so many contract jobs and designs to work on my time is seriously limited at present. Price wise plans go from £2.99 to £4500 and just about every level in betwwen.80% of them cost less than an hours production sale value for the plans finished item.Only limitation being they cannot be resold or modified and resold (bit like software eula's) I noted some people market plans and charge for each cut item or seriously limit production, that's not a good business model, I don't, once a plan is licenced I don't care how many of that item people sell or what they sell it for

Some of the plans are expensive, although with reason, the amityville house involved sending a friend (surveyor) to the states for a week with all his kit to get me exact dimensions of that and the Borden house,not cheap but I had the market for both the plan and finised item so not too bad.

These pics are the tip of a rather large iceberg at the minute, I'll get more up as time permits

Hiya Bob, thanks for the compliment

best wishes

Dave

[tweakie]

Tweakie, if you like that train wait till you see the steam train and 1938 style London Underground train

Thanks Dave - I love trains.

Tweakie.

[Bernie_of_CPE]

Hi Dave,

I love the train buildings and that Eiffel Tower is just amazing.

Can I ask what material you are using? It looks very handy to prototype projects.

Love to see more of your work.

[Daven]

I think Dave uses Laser quality Ply for all his models.

Dave