More Carriages- by Silhouette!
Fairly impressed by the results being shown in the Silhouette Cameo cutter thread, I decided a few months ago to save up and buy one. I haven't bought the big Cameo cutter, as that was a bit more than I was prepared to pay on what I regarded as a bit of a risk (these things rarely turn out entirely to plan), but instead bought the smaller, cheaper Portrait Cutter, with a vague idea of using it to cut the difficult beaded areas on carriage sides.
When it arrived, and after I had installed the software, I decided that as a first attempt I would have a go at some new sides for my old Hornby clerestory stock, which sometime ago I had attempted to convert into GC types. I scanned a couple of George Dow's drawings and traced over them in the design software, which I found surprisingly easy to pick up. More usually new computer software leaves me swearing and utterly bewildered, and ultimately I give it up entirely as a bad job. Not this time.
It took a little bit of experimenting with various plastic thicknesses, cutting speeds and pressures, but eventually I got somewhere with it and for the last few weeks I've been steadily rebuilding an 8-compartment all third, which I finished last night. I think the result is a marked improvement on my previous effort.
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