Well, I got a late start this weekend because one of our pets (of 12 years) had to be put to sleep.
But I was still able to get my feet wet doing some conversions, though. In a nutshell, this thing is awesome! Enough blathering, I'll let the pics do the talking...
This is the first one I attempted converting. It's from the Coins of the Realms set. I've never previously built these coins because after doing the round ones and seeing what a pain it was to cut perfect circles by hand, I didn't have the heart to tackle these strange arcs. The Silhouette SD makes cutting these shapes easy.
For designing the layout file, I got the cutting path down for one coin, then copied/pasted groups of coins to make it go faster. As you can see, it cut out quite a few coins in one run. And I was amazed at how clean the cut lines were.
The next one I did was a props page from a clothing store in Mayhem Mega Mall. I love all the neat little WWG props from various sets, but since they're so small, they can be pretty tough on your blade hand.
Here's a shot of the layout file in the Robo Master tool. The blue lines are score lines. (Yes, you read that right - it will also score everything for you!)
And here's the printed & scored product. All I did was peel off the waste from the carrier sheet:
And here's a detail shot of the itty-bitty cash register, with a quarter for scale. These are the kind of props I traditionally build only one of because they're so fiddly. Now I can crank these out by the truckload.
Here's one I did this morning - a set of stalagmites from the oldie-but-goodie CaveWorks:
In the past, I think I've only built a couple of stalagmites from this set. It's difficult to cut/score the organic curvy shapes by hand and get them to line up after you fold them over. I always ended up having to get out my hobby knife and whittle them into shape. Not anymore!
Here's a detail shot of the stalagmites to illustrate how accurate the cuts are.
So um...yeah, I'm a very happy camper. And while I mainly buy WWG stuff, I'll definitely be checking out Ebbles Miniatures and One Monk Miniatures for their ready-to-cut products.
Like someone said previously, the only thing slowing me down at this point is trying to decide what I want to mass-produce next!
