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– by Don Spiro
found Vector Cut during one of those late night, looking for nothing in particular, searches on the Internet. Ahh the Internet; where interesting things seem to live. With a bit of rooting around you often run across small and often obscure manufacturers well deserving of more broad popularity. Vector Cut (www.vectorcut.com) is one of those. They produce a line of laser-cut structure kits, wood decking for ship models, and a simply astonishing and highly creative line of fine detail parts. From hard-to-find junk
wood laser-cut detail parts
yard parts for strewing behind a service station, to items which one does not usually look for such as hamburgers and hot dogs on a bun or donuts and bagels! Most details are cut from .0145” wood sheet; some of the finer and “wispier” details are even thinner. Here’s a good representation of their details line: Tools: Let’s get small. Really small! This collection of diminutive pliers, open-end wrenches, pipe wrenches, box wrenches, and paintbrushes could have come right out of an old Sears catalog. A second sheet supplies an even smaller set of wrenches. These are marvelous in their minuscule precision and cost $7.75.
Tools
Figure 1
Old car scrap yard
Old Car Scrapyard: There are two frets in this incredible set; the first is .0145” thick and includes floor pans, leaf springs, radiators, surrounds, and grilles. You can model these built up or in separate pieces. There are hoods with vents, dashboard instrument panels sans instruments, firewalls, wheel rims, a few hoods and upper and/or lower control arm suspension bits and doors. Not only is there an outer door with a teenie opening where the handle once attached, but there is an inner framework. When the two are sandwiched together, they form an
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