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Fantastic project! I am in awe at the ambition, and excited for the updates on here. Double header with Victoria once it's finished?

Superb! Looks wonderful with Linda giving a sense of scale.

Isopropyl Alcohol rather than Indian Pale Ale. Both have their uses but it’s best not to mix them up.

To my untrained eye, that looks very much like Boston Lodge, with the mainline on the right there.

Very nicely finished. Like the figure - the specs are an excellent detail.

Love it! Balcony coaches are my favourite, one of the reasons I love the Welshpool & Llanfair. It's spoiled riding trains indoors for me. I agree, a train of variants on the theme would be fantastic.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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...

She looked great and definitely benefited from running in - a very nifty little loco and a lovely build.

ge_rik wrote: ↑Tue Feb 14, 2023 8:30 am I couldn't get your link to work

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

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’...

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...

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...

Great build. Very nice kit, lovely finish, brilliant explanation of the build.

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 ...

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?

Very crisp! And an absolute bargain.