Search found 577 matches
- Thu Jan 19, 2023 4:07 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Persistence pays!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3498
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: 2648
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: 8396
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: 22695
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: 7042
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: 13216
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: 7058
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: 3388
- Views: 1104980
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: 5615
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: 4235
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: 28131
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: 2545
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: 350
- Views: 75214
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: 8396
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: 28131
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: 362731
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: 765
- Views: 331983
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: 5899
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: 5899
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 ...
- Sun Nov 27, 2022 12:11 pm
- Forum: 3D Printing
- Topic: Choosing and Using a Resin printer
- Replies: 20
- Views: 23723
Re: Choosing and Using a Resin printer
I’ve ordered a Whale 2. As far as I can see 50 micron resolution is more than adequate for my needs, and the saving over the Photon M3 Plus will pay for a wash and cure station which I am sure will make a difference to my real life use! Many thanks Steve for putting me onto this deal. (I also redisc...