Laser Cut Card Buildings

[Lampyridae]

Actually the etching really looks good, but you can easily tone it down. Most ryokans I saw in Japan had the normal square paper windows, or even modern glass ones so it's not like the authenticity that much. Very atmospheric. So far this is 5 Yu Jings out of 5 for me!

[Kintaro]

Man that Ryokan looks sweet! As a Yu Jing player I heartily approve. any chance of a tile texture on the floor or walkway an the roof without radically increasing the costs?
This is just full of win

[MARC C]

Excellent design and more in line with the Futurehab's usefulness and believability.

[LaserCutCard]

Thanks for the kind words, guys

Building #3: factory shop basic CAD render

Some nice roof areas on two levels, a stairway, a big sign and a big airconditioning unit. Retail access at the front, deliveries at the rear.



The First Fit cut should be done by Wednesday

[LaserCutCard]

Building #4 Cad render - a corner bar?

Nice roof, lots of signage and this building will be used as a test of a bunch of accessories. It is also intended to rest up against other buildings so there is nothing sticking out on the rear faces

[LaserCutCard]

Futurehab 5 - Monorail train station - train render

This is a very simple inner city monorail shuttle, not a big intercity express. It will be packaged as part of a simple monorail system to add to a table. It is more for decoration but we want it to be easy to actually move during a game so there will be no carriages.

[LaserCutCard]

This looks as boring as hell but it is a significant test cut for us. To our knowledge, no-one is making scenery with domes and curves at all. This is a bog-standard half dome but the theory is sound... it could be a flat dome, a sphere or anything in between. What will we use it for? Well, for starters, we will want to do something related to the letter that comes after sigma in the Greek alphabet.

[LaserCutCard]

Dodecahedron test cut (and strength test)

This was the precursor to sitting down and doing a proper geodesic dome, to chech that there were not any major problems with the card thickness when it came to polygons. Provided I leave a border of at least 5mm on each face, it is quite strong. The wine bottle weights 1.2kg.

[Burn In Designs]

I love the dome! I worked out a wooden version of one early on and the material thickness gets in the way of tight joints. The unit needed an interior structure that I wasn't ready to produce. I can't wait to see a proper geodesic version. Keep up the great work.

[MARC C]

This looks as boring as hell but it is a significant test cut for us. To our knowledge, no-one is making scenery with domes and curves at all. This is a bog-standard half dome but the theory is sound... it could be a flat dome, a sphere or anything in between. What will we use it for? Well, for starters, we will want to do something related to the letter that comes after sigma in the Greek alphabet.

This could become a convincing Haqqislam (desert) dwelling...

[jherazob]

If done thematically right it could be used for any faction, not just Haqq

[Hero of Man]

Yeah, that dome makes me think of "Bubble-Fabs" from Takeshi Kovacs novels; quickly deployable semi-permanent shelters. I dig them.

[Section9]

If done thematically right it could be used for any faction, not just Haqq

Spray it with stone-texture paint and it's a great nuclear reactor containment dome... Bonus points for LCC if you guys make a big double-tapered cooling tower!

[LaserCutCard]

Thanks for all the kind words, everyone

Spray it with stone-texture paint and it's a great nuclear reactor containment dome... Bonus points for LCC if you guys make a big double-tapered cooling tower!

This would be quite easy to do but why would anyone use the cooling towers? They would be quite high (say 30cm high) with no ledges except maybe at the top. And think of the mission to store them

[LaserCutCard]

Futurehab #4 - corner shop. Details and strength test

The detail layer is pretty much done but there are a few bugs to fix. There are some internal braces under the roof to support the large surface and it is now strong enough to hold your heaviest model without sagging

[Lampyridae]

Looking pretty good! The dodecahedrons etc would make great radar domes or shield generators for X-Wing.

[Section9]

Spray it with stone-texture paint and it's a great nuclear reactor containment dome... Bonus points for LCC if you guys make a big double-tapered cooling tower!

This would be quite easy to do but why would anyone use the cooling towers? They would be quite high (say 30cm high) with no ledges except maybe at the top. And think of the mission to store them

True, but they'd be good simple LOS blockers without a sniper perch.

If you make one, I'll buy one.

[MaxOrion]

Domes would make it very hard to keep my money in my wallet.

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[Section9]

I'd buy those detail bits if they were available separately, too!

[Lampyridae]

Heh, and I see you have good taste in beer! (Tafel is a Namibian lager)

The corner shop has something Fallout-ish about it. Is it possible to "flip" the corner shop so that you can put another on the other side, making half a block? I imagine you would have to invert the main roof sheet and fold it the other way.

[Random Rabbit]

If you leave off the air con ect then they will (at least the idea was) join up

[LaserCutCard]

Heh, and I see you have good taste in beer! (Tafel is a Namibian lager)

The corner shop has something Fallout-ish about it. Is it possible to "flip" the corner shop so that you can put another on the other side, making half a block? I imagine you would have to invert the main roof sheet and fold it the other way.

Only the best here.

Once I have ironed out a few tiny technical glitches, the model will be totally symmetrical so you could arrange them how you like, including making a block of 4 of them.

All you will have to do is choose where you want the back doors as there will be one on each of the rear walls.

[LaserCutCard]

Bring a touch of the old world to your city with the Ryokan. This could be a retro hotel, the headquarters of a Yakuza clan or maybe the entrance to the "flower and willow" world.

Once constructed it can be stored by stacking the components inside one another to save space. The roofs are removable to allow models to move inside. It can also be used as two separate buildings.

It is made from 1mm heavy card and comes supplied unassembled and unpainted in an A4 flat pack.

The Ryokan has been added to the store here:http://www.lasercutcard.co.za/ryokan

[Burn In Designs]

Great stuff as always. I wish I could move to cardstock for some of my kits. It opens up some great layering options you can't get in wood. Keep them coming.

[LaserCutCard]

Great stuff as always. I wish I could move to cardstock for some of my kits. It opens up some great layering options you can't get in wood. Keep them coming.

Thanks mate

Here are some pictures of it stacked - "love hotel" style

[LaserCutCard]

I have created a bundle pack of the Ryokan - 3 models for $50

http://www.lasercutcard.co.za/specials

[Lampyridae]

Dayum, that's a pretty cheap Yu Jing board...

[LaserCutCard]

Dayum, that's a pretty cheap Yu Jing board...

Ananzi FTW

[VisOne]

I have created a bundle pack of the Ryokan - 3 models for $50

http://www.lasercutcard.co.za/specials

I mentioned this elsewhere but I plan on using this pack to create a C.E.O's penthouse escape on top of one of the major Yu Jing technological manufactures head offices. Should meld in pretty well with the traditional meets 175 years into the future aspect of the game.

But first I've got a Silk Processing plant to build which will have some real force protection in the form of a Halqa Platoon w/ Luzige Armoured Vehicles encamped in the area. Neals stunning Ratel which is the basic infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) of the South African National Defence Force's mechanized infantry battalions was by far the most appropriate vehicle I could find to use for this and you can't fault the price! I'm going to cover the wheels completely and alter the 90mm cannon a little to make it "futuretech" ever so slightly to match the images from the book a little more.

[MARC C]

I have created a bundle pack of the Ryokan - 3 models for $50

http://www.lasercutcard.co.za/specials

That's a great offer! I just posted it on our local FB page.

Question:
Are you planing on doing vehicles for Infinity? The ones you already have are very cool but not sci-fi enough.
I would certainly buy several copies of futuristic military vehicles.