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- Thu Mar 09, 2023 3:13 pm
- Forum: 3D Printing
- Topic: Pont y Gelli - A composite printed bridge
- Replies: 28
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Re: Pont y Gelli - A composite printed bridge
I have some deck printed. That really looks the part! Deck, sleepers and chairs all printed together? It has inspired me to think that I could upgrade the look of my bridges, not to anything as impressive as you are printing, but with a deck and handrails it would be a big improvement in appearance.
- Wed Mar 08, 2023 12:57 pm
- Forum: 3D Printing
- Topic: Pont y Gelli - A composite printed bridge
- Replies: 28
- Views: 6935
Re: Pont y Gelli - A composite printed bridge
Looking great Trevor. That was printed in 8 sections, 2 at a time flat on the bed of the printer. I used the "tree like" supports which enabled the true shapes of trelliswork to be printed. What do you mean by 'true shapes' here? Is that in the sense that you could have fudged things and d...
- Fri Mar 03, 2023 8:35 am
- Forum: 3D Printing
- Topic: Pont y Gelli - A composite printed bridge
- Replies: 28
- Views: 6935
Re: Pont y Gelli - A composite printed bridge
Instantly recognisable!
My first book on the Welsh narrow gauge was Prideaux's pictorial history. There's a superb double page spread of a photos of a passenger train posed in front of the viaduct with the rows of cottages behind. Very memorable.
My first book on the Welsh narrow gauge was Prideaux's pictorial history. There's a superb double page spread of a photos of a passenger train posed in front of the viaduct with the rows of cottages behind. Very memorable.
- Sun Feb 26, 2023 9:45 am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Help please - if you can
- Replies: 48
- Views: 15537
Re: Help please - if you can
Oops. Misremembered her age despite the extra couple of years suggesting a more plausible date. Glad you’ve found your answer, Rik. Though I’m now feeling sad that Jeanette, who I’d never heard of a couple of days ago, dies so young and is not around to tell her (great) grandchildren about the day s...
- Sat Feb 25, 2023 8:45 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Help please - if you can
- Replies: 48
- Views: 15537
Re: Help please - if you can
Seven million by even by the late 70s seems quite impressive! How about this? A Jeanette Gardiner died in New Zealand aged 52 on 8 September 2010. She would have been 23 either 21 April 1981 or 1982. That’s still a reasonably impressive number of passengers in under 30 years, but certainly fits with...
- Wed Feb 15, 2023 9:42 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Yr Hen Felin & Yr Orsaf Newydd
- Replies: 297
- Views: 51242
Re: Yr Hen Felin & Yr Orsaf Newydd
She looked great and definitely benefited from running in - a very nifty little loco and a lovely build.
- Tue Feb 14, 2023 8:47 am
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: The Railway in the Valley of the Mill
- Replies: 321
- Views: 69690
Re: The Railway in the Valley of the Mill
Thanks Rik I think I have fixed it (I stuck some unneeded quote marks in the BBcode). It should work now?ge_rik wrote: ↑Tue Feb 14, 2023 8:30 am I couldn't get your link to work
https://photos.simonwood.info/index?/ca ... ruary_2023
- Mon Feb 13, 2023 9:21 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: The Railway in the Valley of the Mill
- Replies: 321
- Views: 69690
Re: The Railway in the Valley of the Mill
That's worked out well, Trevor. Having seen it in person, I can confirm it definitely has worked out well. And the printed Tanygrisiau building is just incredible - it just looks so good in situ. https://photos.simonwood.info/i?/uploads/h/h/7/hh7xrynhca//2023/02/13/20230213202232-0b3ca6c9-la.jpg I’...
- Mon Feb 13, 2023 9:16 pm
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: First Ever Garden Railway
- Replies: 57
- Views: 12441
Re: First Ever Garden Railway
That’s a great garden with a lot of potential! Whatever you do is going to look great in it, I think. That said, I’d be inclined to agree with Peter. The wall is really just at a perfect height, almost made for the purpose, dog-boning the ends will give you good running options, and if you don’t wan...
- Sat Jan 28, 2023 11:01 am
- Forum: Printing problems and solutions
- Topic: Stringing!!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2678
Re: Stringing!!
7C still seems pretty cold. I can't say what my prints are like in that temperature - the Adventurer 3 has a heated bed and a plastic enclosure so it's always a bit warmer than that. But I wonder if you could build quite an effective thermal box out of the solid polyurethane sheets used for insulati...
- Fri Jan 27, 2023 9:06 am
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: Jerry Irwin Kit build for FWLR
- Replies: 29
- Views: 8197
Re: Jerry Irwin Kit build for FWLR
Great build. Very nice kit, lovely finish, brilliant explanation of the build.
- Sun Jan 22, 2023 9:47 am
- Forum: 3D Printing
- Topic: Festiniog Railway Cleminson 6 wheel coal wagon
- Replies: 25
- Views: 6561
Re: Festiniog Railway Cleminson 6 wheel coal wagon
Thanks Trevor and Philip for this discussion about resin printing and slicing techniques, every line here is illuminating: these are exactly the details I’m going to need to get my head around. For reason a bit too involved to go into here I haven’t had a chance to do more than make a test print on ...
- Thu Jan 19, 2023 4:10 pm
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: Any advice on vinyl lettering?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3011
Re: Any advice on vinyl lettering?
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?
My main question would be... how small can you go with the lettering?
- Thu Jan 19, 2023 4:07 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Persistence pays!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2910
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: 2234
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: 7298
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: 20684
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: 5341
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: 12230
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: 5404
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...