Leaderboard

Hello folk. I've just pulled the trigger on a Creality Laser Falcon laser engraver. This was a bit of a spur of the moment "looks like a bargain" knee jerk buy. 🫣 I have used 1ManArmy laser cut masks and enjoyed their fidelity. I am hoping that I will be able to create my own masks using this tool. I have zero experience with this sort of thing so I have to expect failures. There is also no guarantee that this device, which is aimed at the crafting hobbyist, will give me anything close to the fidelity I hope for. Experimentation will be the name of the game. It comes well packaged in a stout cardboard box. Rudimentary instructions and assembly guide on the top with some fun stickers. I made sure everything was present. Creality include a pair of tinted glasses to use during operation but no base plate in this kit. The user must source and provide a suitable flat metal plate to protect the workspace from damage. The working area is 400mm x 415mm once everything is assembled. The machine operates either by USB-USBC cable directly from your PC/other interface or by using a TF card straight into the engraver. Creality supply a square of thin plywood and a pre-loaded test piece to give the machine a whirl. I'll report back with more in due course. Cheers, Guy

That's a shame, Guy. I hope you can get it resolved without too much mucking around. Kev

Good luck Hopefully you can get it sorted in short order

Hobby Boss F6F-3 Hellcat built as White 36 on USS Hornet in June 1944 The kit itself is very simple, light on details but the fit was much better than I was expecting. My biggest issue with it is the decals which were scaled oddly and looked toyish As the interior and decals were not that great I decided on closed canopy which would end up being be one of the key lessons learned I masked both sides of the canopy, prepped the inside then unmasked, cleaned and glued to the fuselage and continued with the rest of the build - at the very end when removing the outside masks discovered I managed to get overspray (which also highlighted some residue) on the inside of the canopy which you can see in some of the pics This is my 12th build since starting the hobby a couple of years ago and 3rd time cutting and using my own masks, which I am happy I started down this path as the results look much better to me I have Silhouette Portrait 4 and used Tamiya masking sheet for the Canopy and Wheel masks, and Oracal 810 for the Insignia and Numbers mask Thank you to the folks contributing to the site library of Insignia's I was able to use This is my first tri-color Hellcat and I had two goals for this build: 1) practice the tri-color (or more accurately 4 color) scheme using Vallejo USN Sea Blue for the top fuselage, Glossy Sea Blue for the wings and tail, Intermediate Blue and Insignia White 2) practice with the insignia and letters with masks With the exception of the canopy, pretty happy with this build overall

It looks like Imgur doesn't want to give you access to the proper image link, which is a bit annoying. The easiest way to get at it is to right-click on the image (assuming you're using a desktop browser and not a mobile device), and choose your browser's version of "copy image link". Then paste that link into the post edit window here. This should give you something like so: Very nice build, by the way! Kev

Thanks guys. I'll be honest and confess that it's taken the wind out of my sails. All of the "help" videos make everything look so easy because the software does what it's supposed to. My PC won't recognize the laser at all so there's no current way of selecting it to move on. I am going to see if there's a way to simply save a file into the supplied TF card and use the laser stand alone. So far though I can't save a design as the correct file type....☹️ * Sigh *