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This laser cut building is a combination of laser cut styrene and mdf. It combines the flexibility and paint-ability of styrene with the strength and durability of MDF. The laser cut styrene takes dry-brushing and washes very well. It is 12 stories tall and the dimensions are 120mm x 60mm x 300mm.

Price: $24.99

http://corseceng.com/10mm-scifi-laser-cut-terrain/12-story-half-moon-tower/





Jonathan Bowen
CorSec Engineering
www.corseceng.com

Can't fix the images. Maybe you could attach them to the original post?

They worked in the preview... Ok I'll upload them a different way and fix it.

Working for me now. Weird. Maybe it's because I visited your
website and the images cached?

Can anyone who hasn't visited the website see the pictures in the OP?

I changed them to uploaded pics. I also scaled them down a bit. I was trying to hotlink directly from my site but everyone should see them now.

My initial reaction is that it has essentially zero detail; you are selling a tall semicircle? Why would I pay $25 for that, is there a typo for $2.50?

For reference your website does not work. Somehow the images are still loading here.

I honestly wonder if this is a joke.

I'm happy about the idea of a 10mm building, but not a big fan of this design.

We are working on other designs but we are still experimenting with the new method.

To be honest we didn't know what to do with it. Its a modern/scifi skyscraper. Most of them are just giant glass monsters.

The next design I'm working on is trickier but it has a much more complex shape to it.

As for the price. Keep in mind this building is a foot tall. Thats a lot of material. It's as tall as we will go. The rest will end up being smaller by at least a few floors.

Jonathan Bowen
CorSec Engineering
www.corseceng.com

That's not much detail at all for a foot tall building. It looks very messy. More of a WiP or concept piece than a finished product.

I think the problem isn't so much a lack of detail as that the detail that is there is massively out of scale. The gaps between the windows look crooked (which might just be the painting and/or lighting) and far too large. At scale, that building would be terribly draughtyl.

Some detail on the roof would be nice, though. It has a helipad, but no apparent roof access to the building. It needs some prettying up... A stairwell top, some lightning rods, a railing, airconditioner vents... all that stuff that you normally find on the roof of tall buildings.

In scale those windows are 9 feet tall. The gaps are 6' tall. This is consistent with our research into skyscraper design.

It might look a bit crooked because the camera we use isn't the best. It's just a point and shoot. The lens tends to warp things towards the edges.

As for roof details, we just don't have the capacity to make properly scaled bits. In addition to that, our research images don't show much in the way of details on a roof that has a helipad. They need wide open space to land the chopper. There could possibly be a small roof access doorway but most of them are recessed under the pad or accessed through a small hatch.

It was also a gameplay choice. added clutter would have made it impossible to rest a miniature base on top of the tower.

Keep in mind that this is a laser cut kit. It isn't a fancy resin cast terrain piece. As it is we are stretching the capacity of the cutter using the styrene. This allows us to make the curved shape.

 corseceng wrote:
In scale those windows are 9 feet tall. The gaps are 6' tall. This is consistent with our research into skyscraper design.

I wasn't talking about the floors in between. I was talking about the space in between each window. At that scale, you shouldn't see much, if any, gap between them. The fact that you can spoils the illusion of scale.

Are the wndows all separate pieces, or a single piece with etched lines? If they're all separate little rectangles, that would explain the crookedness (imprecise assembly).

They are all etched. That entire curved front is a single piece. They are not crooked. Maybe my attempt to line them was off a bit. I just ran the micro pen inside the groove. I did screw up a few here and there.

The windows are 7 scale feet wide. The etched line is as small as we can make. It would blend better without being lined but for photo reasons it needed contrast to show the detail.

 corseceng wrote:
They are all etched. That entire curved front is a single piece. They are not crooked. Maybe my attempt to line them was off a bit. I just ran the micro pen inside the groove. I did screw up a few here and there.

That would explain it

The windows are 7 scale feet wide. The etched line is as small as we can make. It would blend better without being lined but for photo reasons it needed contrast to show the detail.

Part of the problem might also be that as you curve the surface the etched lines will stretch out wider. Maybe just making them slightly shallower might help reduce that?

I just checked the front and back. They are the same. maybe .04mm difference.

Also they are 3" wide in scale. good size for weather stripping and framing for the individual panels.

I'd like to see if I can help.

Firstly, the windows. A quick check of Google Images shows that curved skyscrapers are, typically, all windows. They are also segmented surfaces, not true curves.





Here's one that I think would be a good candidate for laser cutting/etching:


As for the roof helipad, you are correct in that they are usually fairly featureless. However, it is the surrounding details that matter. They are, typically, raised off of the roof surface, have fences or other protective devices surrounding the edges of the pad, and some form of roof detail, such as a glassed-in entryway/waiting room, or stairs/elevator access.





I understand at this scale, fine detail is unwanted. People can add their own railing, antennae, etc.

In summary:

The 'banded windows' do not look right to the average person. The design harks back to 90's era drawings of 'future' buildings in games such as Battletech, which may be what you're shooting for.
The Helipad should be raised up, and some form of etched or raised detail, showing the access to the roof, is suggested.