I have to admit, I've been waiting a long time to post those pic's here. It's stuff like that that got me going, too. I'll get some closeups of details and maybe some cuts up asap.
The machine was built mostly for Ray to use. He's a G-scale model railroader and wants to use it to help build custom cars and buildings. We did a scale drawing of a 40 x 40 ft. brick wall as a test to see what we could use the machine for. Comes out at about 17" square (29:1 scale) and contains about 4000 bricks. .017 wide grout lines by about .01 deep. You don't need a very strong or fast machine to make something like that, but I would say that a CNC is certainly the way to go and you need something that will do at least 2 feet square.
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