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From the looks of the parts it’s going to be a lot of time at the spray booth as well. Looking forward to the progress as you build this one!!

Looking great!! Love DCC and sound locomotives!! Keep up the great work!!

Very very nice!! Excellent job!!

I see I could of used this cool tool when I was building the spindle chair I did a while back.

Looks like it's coming along really well. Your turnout controls, their not tortoise switch machines, so what brand are they? Are they servos? Seen them but never used them. I use Caboose Industries manual switch stand for my switching layout. Backdrop looks great too. Bet you can't wait to get trains running 🙂. Keep up the great work and look forward to more!!

Doctors phaeton piano box buggy this is what you see most of the time people driving with there horses today. Amish buggy this is what you see the Amish driving in the USA most of the time.

I never posted finished pictures of my stagecoach.

Thought I would share a couple things I’ve made on my taig lathe. Little things.

The term "doctor's buggy" was first applied to a type of doctor's phaeton . A phaeton is a lightweight, four-wheeled carriage, often designed to be owner-driven. Here's how the name came about: Distinctive Top: The term "doctor's buggy" specifically referred to a doctor's phaeton that featured a unique top, designed by a physician named Dr. Yandell in Louisville, Kentucky.

Yeah that’s what I was asking don’t know why I said 3D. Anyway thank you for clarifying that for me.

Thanks for all the information. One of my past jobs (for 10 years) I was operating a laser and a waterjet to cut out metal parts. We would import the customers project into a computer program (sigmanest) and then send it to either machine and run the program. One down fall of this job is that only one person really knew G code and how to fix any problems with the machines. So as for knowing G code or M code, nope not much. So a program and manual is definitely a must and tech support a plus as well. For what I would like to do - miniature work as well as larger items (gifts, signs, etc.) a larger cnc router that can still do the fine delicate work would be great. As for space (someone mentioned that) I have a wood shop and I can easily find a spot for it and hook it up to air and my dust collection system. Noise would not be a problem either because the shop is in a separate building from the house. Bonus, the shop building is actually considered commercial property so even starting a business with the cnc router would have no affect (noise) to the other surrounding area just because that building is a commercial building. It really all boils down to dollars and cents. How much am I wanting to spend on a machine that to start would be a hobby machine and then maybe later put to work making some money with it. To me, start small and then upgrade. But then again, my thinking has always been buy the best you can for the project or projects that you have to do. I've bought many woodworking machines due to the fact I needed them to complete a customers job and then I had the machine to continue making me money with that particular machine added to my shop of tools. Hope that all made since. Anyway, thank you for your ideas, comments, etc. and I just need to take a good hard look at what I want to do with a particular machine and is it worth buying a rather expensive "tool" to just do hobby stuff at this time. With all the comments and suggestions I'm leaning more towards a cnc router just because of the bigger projects I might want to do down the road with the machine. Thanks again.

Hope you still like the cat, and hopefully you can get it all back together without to much trouble. I have dogs and they can do some damage as well if they get ruff housing around. Luckily, nothing has broken yet. Look forward to seeing it all repaired and in another post you told me you did some laser cutting for this model. Makes me wonder if I should have a laser for my miniatures. Still on the fence on that one. Like to have one or a cnc router, but $$$ right now is tight so both will have to wait awhile.

Do you have the have the 3D option on your router? I've looked at these for years and thought I could do so much with one but never pulled the trigger. Then lasers came out and thought that would be cool to have too. I'm up in the air with what I want to do. I've been building my miniatures with the tools I have and just thought a laser or like you said a cnc router would be cool to do some of the things I can't really do well by hand. Like carve the intricate details on some miniatures that I would like to build. Examples: These are all 1/12 scale

I’ve thought of a cnc router also mainly because my profession is woodworking and I could use it there also. But I always see kits that have been laser cut so I just figure the laser was the better way to go. Thank you all for your input more I have allot of thinking and questioning myself is it worth having either a laser or a cnc router at this time.

I've been looking at laser cutting machines lately, and I'm not sure I'm ready yet for one but would like your comments on any laser cutter that you have used, wouldn't use, no way you would buy, etc. I would be using this machine for myself, no business, just different projects I would like to do. Mainly used for making structures and parts for building miniature furniture to scale horse drawn vehicles and possibly parts for boats or ships I might like to build. Let me know, one, are they worth the price for a hobbyist to own one and/or two too much money for not using on a day to day operation. Or even weekly for that matter. Like to see and hear what you think about owning a laser for building scale miniatures. Whether it be ships, buildings, RC, etc. Thank you for your time and look forward to any comments you may have.