Really interested in what you learn from this RIk. I'm surprised these devices aren't more common in our scale, I've thought of getting one, but a bit deterred by the fact that few others are doing it!
My main question would be... how small can you go with the lettering?
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- Thu Jan 19, 2023 4:10 pm
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: Any advice on vinyl lettering?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4073
- Thu Jan 19, 2023 4:07 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Persistence pays!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3920
Re: Persistence pays!
Very crisp! And an absolute bargain.
- Wed Jan 18, 2023 8:24 pm
- Forum: Useful Web-found files
- Topic: Headboard customisable with your own text
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2940
Headboard customisable with your own text
I had a go at creating printable locomotive headboards in Tinkercad. The benefit of printing was being able to create headboards for any occasion without the time, expense and organisation needed to get an etch made.The downside was it actually still took ages to lay out the lettering in Tinkercad -...
- Wed Jan 18, 2023 8:18 pm
- Forum: 3D Printing
- Topic: Tan-y-Grisiau Station Building
- Replies: 27
- Views: 8996
Re: Tan-y-Grisiau Station Building
It's already looking absolutely magnificent!
- Wed Jan 18, 2023 8:14 pm
- Forum: 3D Printing
- Topic: Using OpenSCAD to produce drawings for 3D Printing
- Replies: 51
- Views: 23796
Re: Using OpenSCAD to produce drawings for 3D Printing
I meant to update this thread with progress on my headboard, but forgot to do so. I'd got to the point where I could generate a headboard but the letter spacing was causing me a headache: Even after fiddling the parameters you can see the letter spacing is a problem more generally - since really hav...
- Wed Jan 18, 2023 8:12 pm
- Forum: Useful Web-found files
- Topic: Lego wagon compatible with Tesco 0 gauge train set
- Replies: 0
- Views: 7693
Lego wagon compatible with Tesco 0 gauge train set
Here are the files for my 'lego wagon' which requires a lego plate, Binnie wheels and axles, and the sole bars from Rik's short wheelbase Southwold van to complete. Lego wagon compatible with Tesco 0 gauge train set by mrsimonwood is licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution - Non-Commercial...
- Wed Jan 18, 2023 8:05 pm
- Forum: 3D Printing
- Topic: Lego Wagon
- Replies: 23
- Views: 13753
Re: Lego Wagon
I don't think I every shared the files for this. I've now put them on Thingiverse.
- Wed Jan 18, 2023 7:05 pm
- Forum: Useful Web-found files
- Topic: Multi height couplings for HGLW LB1
- Replies: 0
- Views: 7742
Multi height couplings for HGLW LB1
My good old HGLW LB1 loco, was my first and is still my most used loco. But when I got a little PS Models Hudson Hunslet I loved the multi-height couplings and ever since felt LB1's bumpers were inferior. So when my nephews knocked the LB1 of my bridge and the buffers were damaged, I took the opport...
- Fri Jan 13, 2023 8:45 am
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Time to build a railway...but where?
- Replies: 3391
- Views: 1112170
Re: Time to build a railway...but where?
I think badgers are the most likely culprits. They are quite active in my garden, and seem to dig at things without rhyme nor reason. I certainly avoid giving them reason - such as using the live yoghurt method for encouraging moss - especially as they are capable of quite impressive feats of destru...
- Thu Jan 05, 2023 12:43 pm
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: PDF single Fairlie
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6173
Re: PDF single Fairlie
Ooh, another 50HP Baldwin - we will be able to have a proper parade of these at a South West Wales group meeting, I think this will make a third - matching the number of Kerr Stuart 4415s in the group (at least once I finally finish painting my one!) Though we're probably a way off yet matching the ...
- Mon Dec 19, 2022 5:35 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Domestic oil tank leak
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4659
Re: Domestic oil tank leak
I'd have thought the obvious answer would be to build a small (5" or 7 1/4" gauge) railway between the two oil tanks, and then fabricate some suitable container wagons to form a tanker train... More seriously, in your position I'd be inclined to suggest the recipient pay an oil company to ...
- Mon Dec 19, 2022 3:28 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Kerr Stewart 4420 - Live steam and 3D printing
- Replies: 78
- Views: 29544
Re: Kerr Stewart 4420 - Live steam and 3D printing
And now I have a big grin on my face too! It really is just wonderful to see this beast running. Fabulous.
- Fri Dec 16, 2022 10:47 am
- Forum: Printing problems and solutions
- Topic: Resin Printing & Temperature
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2856
Resin Printing & Temperature
This is a theoretical problem so far. I haven't printed anything yet with my new resin printer, but that's partly because of a note that arrived inside it, to the effect that the optimal operating temperature was 20-40 deg C. My shed was at 14C when the printer arrived and with the change in the wea...
- Sun Dec 11, 2022 10:06 am
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: The Railway in the Valley of the Mill
- Replies: 356
- Views: 77846
Re: The Railway in the Valley of the Mill
Love the ground frame. Also interesting to see the hedge 'naked' as it were, makes it so much easier to see what the route of the railway beyond this point is going to be, compared to when it is fully foliaged... Of course once the line is cut and then the leaves return in spring it will become a us...
- Wed Dec 07, 2022 8:10 pm
- Forum: 3D Printing
- Topic: Tan-y-Grisiau Station Building
- Replies: 27
- Views: 8996
Re: Tan-y-Grisiau Station Building
This is really starting to evoke the sense of atmosphere you get from the old pictures of the original Tan-y-Grisiau. Interesting that the back isn't parallel with the front. Is that based on the real cottages? It's the station building that is that interesting wedge shape - it really was like that....
- Wed Dec 07, 2022 3:41 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Kerr Stewart 4420 - Live steam and 3D printing
- Replies: 78
- Views: 29544
Re: Kerr Stewart 4420 - Live steam and 3D printing
Very neat Trevor! Have I understood the orientation right - that the gas valve will be accessed from the cab opening (port side) and the gas filler vale will be accessed through the water filler chute to starboard?
- Fri Dec 02, 2022 12:11 pm
- Forum: Rolling Stock
- Topic: (WH)WHR Rolling Stock
- Replies: 939
- Views: 366303
Re: (WH)WHR Rolling Stock
Absolutely agree the weather is brilliant. Stunning job.
- Fri Dec 02, 2022 12:09 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: The (Windmill Hill) Welsh Highland Railway
- Replies: 772
- Views: 334688
Re: The (Windmill Hill) Welsh Highland Railway
Lovely pics! The passengers are lucky the season extended long enough to enjoy this. even my wife commented on that yesterday, although she did resist my suggestion that we probably ought to buy another one... "Ought to" :lol: Well quite, it goes without saying. The logic is inescapable.
- Thu Dec 01, 2022 5:59 pm
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: Volks Electric Railway
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6515
Re: Volks Electric Railway
The penny finally dropped, 1:16 scale on 45mm track works out near enough to the weird 2' 8 1/2" gauge used by the VER that commercial wheels and track can be used for the models......... We measured the gauge on the models (they are not motorised and there is no track). The gauge of the wheel...
- Mon Nov 28, 2022 10:43 am
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: Volks Electric Railway
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6515
Re: Volks Electric Railway
Well, this is bad timing. Last Saturday I was at the Brighton Model Railway Club exhibition (helping out - I'm still a member - I was born and brought up in Brighton). VERA was there. As was the model of the Daddy long-legs. And these incredible models. I got chatting to Ian Gledhill and asked what ...