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by SimonWood
Thu Mar 09, 2023 3:13 pm
Forum: 3D Printing
Topic: Pont y Gelli - A composite printed bridge
Replies: 28
Views: 6935

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.
by SimonWood
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...
by SimonWood
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.
by SimonWood
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...
by SimonWood
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...
by SimonWood
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.
by SimonWood
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

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
Thanks Rik I think I have fixed it (I stuck some unneeded quote marks in the BBcode). It should work now?
by SimonWood
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’...
by SimonWood
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...
by SimonWood
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...
by SimonWood
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.
by SimonWood
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 ...
by SimonWood
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?
by SimonWood
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.
by SimonWood
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 -...
by SimonWood
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!
by SimonWood
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...
by SimonWood
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...
by SimonWood
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.
by SimonWood
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...