Thanks for the "like" ticks PT & Jock.

For KH1 and any one else interested in this approach to card or styrene cutting I recommend that you go to forums and search on "topic 79025" &/or "topic 80563". Both these include easy to follow tutorials and you too could quickly have one of these dinky little huts! (Always assuming you have access to a Silhouette cutter - about

Hi Dave. The material you have used looks quite thick? Have you tried to cut any other materials? The web page says it will cut chipboard, but i have never seen any .8mm thick?

Brian

Hi Dave. The material you have used looks quite thick? Have you tried to cut any other materials? The web page says it will cut chipboard, but i have never seen any .8mm thick? Brian

Brian,

The huts were in 0.020" plasticard for roof  & body but 0.010" for window/doorframes etc.

The reference to "chipboard" is miss-leading; I think it's Americanese for what we would class as course cardboard; it certainly is not the type of chipboard (wayrock) we used to build baseboards with!

My experience of the 'Portrait' model is that 0.010"styrene(plasticard) is the thickest that it will cut cleanly and easily without multi-cutting. Even with as many as six double passes (equal to 12  cuts) I've not got 0.020" beyond the 'scribe and snap' method.

Of course the machine's designer was aiming at the greeting card craft fraternity rather than we pretend engineers. (smiley).

My wife is a member of the above craft fraternity but is not computer literate so I have cut paper and card (about 0.010"thick) for her.

Originally I expected to  only use the machine with card, that's what just about every piece of model  architecture I have built over many years is made of. The attraction was being able to cut very fine accurate window frames etc, with a pretty much guaranteed repeat accuracy. Indeed my first cuts after those huts were window frames for Model Railway Scenery's '1930s factory'. (May put a picture on here next time).

Next was sash widow frames and paneled doors for terraced houses. I cut these in 0.010" styrene and 'Kellogs' card, both came out very well.

My view is that if such work, - doors, windows etc, - was all you could achieve with this machine, then the machine would pay its way. With care and thought it can be used over much wider field than just that!

Dave