Garden Railway Forum

One other thing Rik, do they need to be in a reasonably dust free environment :?: If I can interject here, the answer is "reasonably" i.e. I wouldn't use mine and have a mechanical sander going at the same time, but I haven't found normal household/modelling activities to be an issue. A c...

Thanks, thats roughly what I thought you'd say.

The two AA sized batteries and Deltang receiver/controller are in the control panel in the cab. Rik, Have you used actual AA's or are they Li-ion as you usually use? I think you recommend Ecolux as a good battery supplier, but they do many brands, do you have a favourite brand, or just pick what se...

Rik,
I've just thought, you ought to post a "make" and link to this video on the Thingiverse page.

I agree, the loco(s) run very nicely and look really good with the hoppers.
I love the shot at the end where they are pulling in to the siding and you can just see the brake van in the distance at the RHS of the frame.

Soar Valley Light wrote: ↑Sat Jun 20, 2020 8:18 pm it does tend to creep! Mine has crept all the way across the track in several places in only 8 weeks!

Like this you mean,Andrew?

Difficult to be sure from that distance, but it looks rather like "Creeping Thyme" to me.

Just to complete the build, here it is with added chain and guard, and painted.

If it's taught me one thing, it is that my hand is nowhere near as steady as it used to be!

Quite pleased with how they've turned out. Of course, there's a bit of "now I've done it I know how to do it better" ! I don't think the wonky (unpowered) one looks noticeably wonky - though I know exactly where to look!! I feel it was well worth the effort - and the beauty of 3D printing...

Well done, looks good. All that need to be done is to design and manufacture a safety device that stops trains from running off the edge when the bridge is open, I use battery power so breaking the track circuit does not apply, some form of physical barrier will be required possibly even a catch poi...

I used Sketchup in the past but got fed up of the iffy way that it handles circles (many sided polygons rather than true arcs) Sketchup is fine for architectural stuff but anything mechanical you can't beat F360 for free! After all it's got AutoCAD development behind it. I've got F360, but life ain...

Great looking brace of locos Rik. I still reckon they should be nose-to-nose not cab-to-cab. I guess that in Queensland they would get better cooling airflow with one loco's radiator at the front. But heat shouldn't be a problem on the PLR surely. :? I'll give it a try to see what it looks like Bac...

I didn't much care for Freecad either. For Sketchup repairs/identifying errors I use Solid Inspector2 from their extension library. It isn't perfect and sometimes tells you there are errors without obviously showing where, but that's usually because it's tiny and needs mega zooming in. If a face is ...

The drawing looks ok on screen but when I try converting it to a 3d print all sort of weird things keep happening. Apparently, 3d drawings are susceptible to invisible issues (eg "reversed normals", "non manifolds") which mean they are impossible to print. I've discovered a coup...

Who's got the bug then???

Well done though, I've looked at that on Thingiverse several times, including literally 2 or 3 nights ago.

Steamgeorge proposed the theme "Lineside Industries" for the June Gallery and we have a wide variety of offerings, although not quite as many as I would have hoped. All of the pictures are shown below in the order they were submitted, so please vote for the one that you think best fits the...

Really excellent job. Well done.

For every one of my garden railway videos I had always tidied up the garden, mowed the lawn, trimmed the vegetation and cleaned the platforms and buildings. This shows the railway abandoned and then dismantled. A great pity, but if its any consolation, your "abandoned" railway looks much ...

Thats very different, what a fabulous idea. Well done.

[ Sometimes I just run the stream when the railway isn't operational to have the background sound of running water while doing some gardening. Rik Mine runs all day every day, just switching off overnight on a timeclock. Comes on at 07-30 because SWMBO likes to sit on the bench near the head of the...