First a bit of background. Somewhere I stumbled across Vector Cut a while back and I ordered a doghouse kit from them. It arrived and I looked at it but never had a chance to put it together. Then I made another order, forgot to change my shipping address and it went to my home in the states instead of here. So I made a third order, and promptly realized I forgot to change the shipping address. I immediately emailed Dave at Vector Cut with the address I really wanted the stuff to come to. He replied promptly and looking at the postmark sent out my package the day after I ordered it. Pretty fast shipping in my opinion.

My order was for 35 dollars worth of various little bits, manhole covers, mail box, doormats, security gates and basketball hoops. As I'm opening up the package I turn over one bag to see the alphabet! Now I didn't order the "Luncheonette Letters". Dave sent them as a little gift. It even says so, he wrote on that one bag "Extra". Now that's service! Not only did he have to do a bit more with a customs form to mail these to me but he even included an extra fret of detail goodness.

About the products. Vector Cut calls the material "Laserboard" and it's a resin impregnated paper. As you can see below only the minimal amount of material connects the part to the fret so clean up is easy:

Below are the security gates. You can see the variety of configuration these come in, with closed, open and in between:

An impressive aspect of higher end laser cutting is the ability to vary the depth of the "cut" resulting in extremely fine rendering of 3D details. Look at the gated and the padlocks (upper right corner) in this image:

These details really make a structure kit "POP". Below I have one of the hoops on the BEST single car garage. Although the roof is lacking quite a bit in architectural fidelity the basketball hoop draws your eye away from the missing details .

And yes I too am amazed those windows aren't already broken...

This kit took me about 20 minutes to assemble while watching television. The mailbox is a solid core built up of a stack of 12 laser cut pieces. A supplied piece of strip wood serves as a spar for this. The directions call for using thin CA and letting it flow via capillary action between the pieces. Having only thick CA I smeared it around with a piece of scrap wood and tried to not glue my fingers to the project. Then the front and back are glued in place, a bit of filing/sanding, glue together the sides, which consist of two pieces for each side that are glued to each other. This creates a slight recess and lip over the body of the mailbox. The outer part has "US MAIL" engraved into it, but it is such a fine engraving that I couldn't get powder to stick in it, my usual method of bringing out engravings like that.

In this picture you'll see two distinct boxes. I couldn't help myself but do a bit of kitbashing and create a Post Office Relay or Drop box to sit beside the mail box. 

The method used for this kit has a couple of drawbacks. When assembling the 12 core pieces it's critical that they aren't canted in any of the 3 dimensions available to you when you apply the glue or otherwise you could end up with a very crooked mailbox. Those same 12 pieces also create 12 fine ridges across the tombstone top of the mailbox that must be sanded and filled. Also a conspicuous element is not supplied but is mentioned in the directions to use a piece of drawn out sprue, and that is the ridge over the lower door. I made mine from a piece of the security gates etching. Overall it's a bit finicky but was still an enjoyable and not terribly difficult kit to assemble. Had I been in possession of the correct supplies and tools, no doubt I could have done a better job. 

Matt