August 18, 2013

Borderlands Buggy - CNC Buggy

You may have spotted the buggy in the background of my smartgunners photo and wondered what it is. I recently picked up the CNC Workshop pair of buggies lasercut kit.

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The inspiration for the kit was rather obvious to me ;)

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It's very unusual for a lasercut MDF kit. Every other kit I've built has been a slot together box of slots and sockets. This one was mostly layers and layers of shapes glued together and then trying to putty up the gaps and sand it it all smooth.  As you can see I put in a LOT of work puttying up gaps and sanding shapes into curves from the blockyness of the kit.

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So was it worth all the effort. On one hand hand my carpet is a mess after all that sanding :( but the final result is rather pleasing. I still need to add a heap of grab handles and the guns.

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The question after finishing it is do I even want to build the 2nd buggy? I guess I'll decide after I paint this one and see the finished result.


7 comments:

  1. I think it looks great, a real step up for CNC.

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  2. Truly a sweet ride... but the sheer amount of work that goes into "finishing" (in this case, basically half sculpting) this kit will likely leave many hobbyists looking for something a little less DIY. Still, a clever, clever way to produce something; I see the potential for so much more.

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  3. Craig and the guys at CNC really did an amazing job designing the buggy. I can see that you have done a lot of work with the putty to smooth out the body, but do you think it would still be as good without all the puttying?

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  4. Well you can see what it looks like unsanded and unputtied on the CNC site http://www.miniaturescenery.com/ProductPage.asp?CODE=DBUGGY1 It's very blocky looking and there are some big gaps between some of the angled bits on the nose of the buggy. Thing I don't get is why the curved cuts are so sguiggly compared to stuff from Aetherworks which is quite smooth.

    All the same I do think they've done a pretty incredible CAD job in modelling this thing from MDF at all. I'm semi curious to see what their other new vehicle kits are like. But I ordered the vending machines and radar dishes instead, just waiting for them to arrive.

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  5. Huh, it actually looks pretty good without any extra work at all. Good enough to game with, anyway.

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