model workshop to choose simple enough.It is only necessary to define the criteria by which it must comply.
course, armed with internet and typing in the search engines * model workshop *, and to clarify the request to add, for example, * in Kazan * (a model workshop, which is nearby, is easier to work: to monitor the manufacture and adjustment ...), you geta number of proposals for the manufacture of models.
Moreover, advanced online resources even allow you to place a bid and find the best price offer!
But it's simple really, as it seems at first sight?
known that the process of making quality layouts on many aspects of a very complex and time-consuming.In addition, the process of creativity and individuality.Accordingly, the model workshop should be to attract your attention, not only by attractive prices, but also by the possession of a number of technical, engineering, creative features and advantages in comparison with other offers.All this combined effect on what your expectations of the results of the model workshop will be justified.
Another obstacle in the way of the search may be "fake" company: the online resource a lot of so-called "Internet modelers."Except for the name, and even, perhaps, a primitive site, nothing else.The result will be no one to ask.Identify them is not difficult, but still, be careful!
So you turned to the model workshop.How do you know if you can trust her?
- Portfolio
Since this all started ...
Ask how long the model workshop in the market.Pay attention to the amount of work performed.Ask for any presentations they were made, what was the level of the exhibition, which showcased the work model workshop.On the level of the event say much: the scale of the exhibition, she wore an international character, whether held abroad.Equally important plays accompaniment layout specialists at international exhibitions of the model workshop: this is how the world works enough experience for the growth of quality models and the search for new methods of manufacturing.
If you show just one, two, three, even if their work - is not serious.Such - either novice or casual people in prototyping or a "one-day firms."Are you ready to entrust the manufacturing layout in this case?
company chosen by you should be known in the market.Reputation model workshop will give you certain guarantees.
important to be familiar with the site of the company and find out who the customers and partners prototyping workshop.All work on the site must be signed: the name of the layout, for whom executed layout scale.Thus, you can get feedback from real customers.If there is no site, questioned the seriousness of the company in relation to the work performed.
site - the virtual face of the company.
- depth study, artistic presentation - an important criterion!
Photographs pay attention to artistic, designer supply layouts, their color scheme.The depth of study and degree of detail.For investment projects it plays a key and sometimes decisive role.Good work can be seen immediately.
It's like artists.You can roll up the canvas with paint roller uniform: blue - sky, green - grass.And you can like Aivazovsky and Shishkin do the layout so that you hear the noise of the streets and feel the smell of the city.The model should not be a "poster child", it should fascinate, conjures up images of ...
However, when viewing the portfolio need to be careful: too often passes for foreign portfolios own.In this case, ask for the works you liked when were done, who is the customer, his address, someone in the company involved in the manufacture of the layout, features for which you created the work distinguished and where now you can see.
- quality
The bitterness of poor quality is felt even then,
when the sweetness of low price is forgotten long ago.
Ask what materials are made layouts.The use of such weak material such as paper or cardboard are not acceptable!Many model workshop declare it to reduce the cost of the layout, as a consequence - reducing prices.But, in my opinion - it is nonsense.In percentage terms, the cost of a supply of quality, expensive material to the total cost of the layout is 15-30% maximum.Therefore either model workshop makes poor-quality assembly, that their work in relation to the material is cheap, except if cardboard or plastic is cut with a knife or a jigsaw, and this is the last century.In addition, manual nesting material means a significant reduction in the quality and delivery time.A laser engraver makes no difference that the cut - cardboard or Plexiglas.
As our oldest uncle Desktop Publisher Glory: "... it's all the same, that the microscope to hammer nails ..."
or in similar model workshop do not like my job and working for "fast money" becauseCardboard models are short lived and do the layout with the knowledge that he will die soon, so do simply and without a soul - is professionally unethical.
I think that any of the latest versions you are not satisfied.
as the layout of the photos is difficult to determine.For a realistic assessment of the quality is find out where the industrial base in order to view the actual samples and ask you to organize a small tour.In major companies this question does not cause concern.If a representative model workshop hesitated, then an intermediary, or layouts made in the apartments in the kitchens.What kind of quality or purity of the transaction in this case can be said?Feel free to delete from the list of the applicant!
- production base
production base - the most important component of the model workshop.This large, specially prepared premises for placement of equipment and organization of jobs, since all require a lot of space.And industrial base should be prepared just for production models, and not something else.
If the model workshop only small room for visitors, and the production of models is carried out at home, to control the manufacturing process of the layout and the quality you can not, and such an arrangement work something worthwhile is unlikely to succeed.
Making layout goes through several stages of production, which are allocated under the individual rooms: designing, manufacturing, complete with all the necessary jobs with well-thought-out arrangement of specialized equipment, assembly areas, paint, storage for consumables.All premises should be linked into a single technological chain.Such information directly underline the seriousness, organization and high-quality technology, the company's production process and efficient project management.
And if the company makes the design layout in one place, cutting, fabrication or coloring elements sends to another, and final assembly manufactures in the third, it will have an impact on the quality of assembly and deadlines.In addition, a chain eliminates the elimination of errors in the area "designing-assembly" and error necessarily happen.Moreover, such a scheme makes it impossible to improvisation and the search for new optimal solutions in pilot production, as in the phase of development of the concept of manufacturing layout and drawing up terms of reference all can not be foreseen.
On industrial base you can watch live models, touch them and feel the quality.Do not believe, if you say that all models remained with customers and show nothing.Manufacture always leaves traces of his works and samples.
- Progressive technical equipment, equipment
When choosing a model workshop, ask the presence of its own progressive of expensive technical equipment such as 3d-Milling and engraving machines, laser engraving installation, 3d-plotters for prototyping.
Only such equipment can seamlessly handle any material, create an ideal precise shape of objects and allows the production of complex configurations.
It's kind of status of the company.Such weapons svidetetelstvuet foresight company that uses the latest developments in science and realizes the person of new materials in the manufacture of models.And also indicate not only the use of techniques that substantially improve the quality, increasing elaboration and accuracy, but also a fundamentally new technology, progressive methods, significantly reduces manufacturing layout.
It is advisable, if you ask a specialist for you to cut anything on the laser equipment.Look at the process of laser cutting and note the process of manufacturing of miniature parts.
experience.Practice.Professionalism
layout - not a serial product impersonal.In fact, layouts - a complex work of art, but on their creation can only creative people, experts of the highest level of completely different areas - architecture, Sudomodelirovaniye, mechanics, electronics, wood processing, programming, design.It should be a great team of professionals.
Justify low price that is involved in the production layout two or three people - this is not serious.
In addition, specialists use a special approach to each layout and implement innovative ideas.Consequently, the production of models in the first place, is an individual, is unique.
worth communicate with the team.Ask a few questions about the production of the masters.They'd rather talk without pathos and unvarnished what the exclusivity of their work and unique production.
- Presentation
When choosing a model workshop to assess the performance of managers with you: their expertise and knowledge in the production of layouts and how professionally they form the terms of reference.
- Legal
are frequent instances of documents and external current accounts of one-day business.Beware of such.The organization can not be "one", which you will be offered for legal relations.The worst quality is the least of the problems.
Ask to see the originals of constituent documents, registration with the tax authority, the lease or ownership documents of industrial premises.
interesting to look at, you will be attached to the contract specifications, justifying the price of the layout.If there is a list of supplies and in units of square meters - this is ridiculous.As I said earlier, the cost of expensive high-quality materials and an average 20% of the value of the layout.Therefore, prices will be improperly inflated or said consumable is so much that is enough to make a life-size mock-up ...))) These specifications are usually served agencies involved in outdoor advertising.With respect to fabrication layouts such documents are not acceptable.Of course, you can take the document to their accounts, but in my concept of such a document index is not the competence of the technologist and the current project may cause an increased interest from the tax authorities.
This specification should be a list of specific sequences of operations in accordance with the description of processes and then used with the consumables specific brands at every stage of manufacture.
the only way to determine the actual amount of work and estimate the costs of which displays the value of the layout.
layouts at the fragile nature.Require care and respect.Therefore, many important question - warranties, including services for the restoration, cleaning layout responsible delivering it to the place of exposure.Ask if the layout after-sales service of its deposit.Included Does this item in the terms of the contract ...
The choice is yours.
Good luck and reliable partners ...
Igor Romanov, director of model workshop Creative Association "Autograph" Kazan.
