The Wolfling Project

I took the TIG Welding SBU at TechShop today. It went well, but I'll need some more practice before taking the Level 2 class that handles joins. Fortunately the TIG welder schedule looks pretty clear.

Also about half-done with a few Corel Draw plans for more laser-cut items. Time to pick up more scrap @ TAP.

I prepped some artwork in PhotoShop and tried some photoengraving on the laser this morning.

I was able to test-burn a scrap piece of basswood, as well as two pieces of acrylic. The smoke-colored one was slightly thicker than 1/8", and required either multiple vector passes or very high power (7% speed, 88% power) to cut.

Now that I've got a TechShop membership, I'm no longer constrained by my lack of a garage and limited equipment.

Here's my first hour's work on the Epilog 45W laser cutter / engraver:

A lot of wargame add-ons are simple designs -- excellent for practice.

• Vehicle status tokens in paper (test)
• Vehicle status tokens in acrylic
• Smoke markers in acrylic
• Chaos painting and detail stencils in cardstock.
• Checkerboard stencil in cardstock.