Revolutionizing Miniature Model Making: Herdwick Landscapes' Journey with CorelDRAW
Technology Category
- Sensors - GPS
- Sensors - Lidar & Lazer Scanners
Applicable Industries
- Buildings
- Equipment & Machinery
Applicable Functions
- Product Research & Development
Use Cases
- Time Sensitive Networking
About The Customer
Herdwick Landscapes is a Staffordshire, UK-based company in the Arts and Crafts industry, founded by Peter and Kate Kelsall. The company specializes in designing and creating period stone dolls' houses, modeled on the classic stone buildings found in England's north-west Lake District. These miniature models are crafted with an incredible attention to detail, embodying the characteristic features of a period house, right down to panelled or wattle and daub partition walls, removable floorboards, flagstone floors, wooden or stone stairs, fireplaces, and inglenooks. The company's range includes buildings based on the tales of renowned author Beatrix Potter, as well as a number of commissions. Each dolls' house comes with its own deed of conveyance, providing a brief history of the building and a description of the type of residents it would have housed.
The Challenge
Herdwick Landscapes, a UK-based company specializing in the creation of period stone dolls' houses, faced significant challenges in their production process. The company, founded by Peter and Kate Kelsall, was inspired by the rugged beauty of England's north-west Lake District and aimed to create miniature models that accurately represented the classic stone buildings found in this region. However, crafting these intricate models by hand was extremely time-consuming and physically challenging, particularly when working at a 1/48th scale. The finer details, such as fretwork, windows, and doors, were particularly difficult to produce. The labor-intensive nature of the work also limited the range of styles they could offer, and some elements, like windows and fireplaces that light up, were simply too small to create by hand at the 1/48 scale.
The Solution
To overcome these challenges, Peter and Kate decided to incorporate CorelDRAW Graphics Suite into their production process. This graphics software enabled them to design more intricate work and produce much more detailed models. They used CorelDRAW for their house plans, windows and doors, engraving, furniture design, and to simulate carving. The software's Toolbox, with its vector shapes and drawing tools, proved particularly useful, as did the Color Styles docker for maintaining color consistency across projects. The transformation tools also facilitated the positioning, skewing, and rotating of objects. Additionally, the Kelsalls added an HPC laser cutter to their toolkit, which allowed them to output CorelDRAW files directly and benefit from precision-cut pieces. The laser cutter interpreted the fill tool in CorelDRAW as an engraving, enabling even finer touches to be added to their work.
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