I was toying with an idea recently to build a CNC cutter for styrofoam, and paint them by hand. For miniature based FX shots. I built a 3-axis CNC recently with

I was toying with an idea recently to build a CNC cutter for styrofoam, and paint them by hand. For miniature based FX shots. I built a 3-axis CNC recently with a friend to carve wood and plastics (for a hobby), I don't think a wire cutter would be much more difficult, but wire lathes would provide a challenge. Also, camera rigs for miniature work and lighting rigs for those are kind of an art that is on a verge of extinction. Which is king of a shame, because I still think miniature work looks better than CG in most cases. Because CG, in almost every shot I've seen, looks like a miniature world.