Festiniog Railway Welsh Pony - 3 D printed

[-steves-]

Trevor, that looks freaking amazing, I hope you are very proud of yourself.

As far as name plates go, it looks like your plates are lifting at each end the same as mine do. I am going to thicken up the base to try and avoid this but I am not sure if it's getting them off the build plate that causes it or whether it's the curing process under a UV lamp, I might try an outside natural dry to see if it's that. Let me know if you manage to overcome this.

EDIT: Another question, how high and how wide are your rivets as they look perfect, mine never come out as they look in CAD, lol.

[ge_rik]

Excellent work all round. Can't wait to see it in action

Rik

[Andrew]

Nice lining!

Incidentally, (unless you get it right first time, of course!) what do you use to remove any mistakes while lining a plastic model? I use lighter fluid on metal locos, but want to line a tender I've made from plastic at some point and wonder how it would hold up?

Thanks,

Andrew.

[Trevor Thompson]

Trevor, that looks freaking amazing, I hope you are very proud of yourself.

As far as name plates go, it looks like your plates are lifting at each end the same as mine do. I am going to thicken up the base to try and avoid this but I am not sure if it's getting them off the build plate that causes it or whether it's the curing process under a UV lamp, I might try an outside natural dry to see if it's that. Let me know if you manage to overcome this.

EDIT: Another question, how high and how wide are your rivets as they look perfect, mine never come out as they look in CAD, lol.

Thanks for the complement!

I am quite pleased with it.

The rivets are 1mm diameter and 1mm high. Just rods - not actually rivet shaped. I don't think its obvious when they are printed - and even less so when painted.

The name plates were flat when I took them off the build plate - but warped under UV. I was planning to just glue them into place and expect the glue to hold them flat.

Trevor

[Trevor Thompson]

Nice lining!

Incidentally, (unless you get it right first time, of course!) what do you use to remove any mistakes while lining a plastic model? I use lighter fluid on metal locos, but want to line a tender I've made from plastic at some point and wonder how it would hold up?

Thanks,

Andrew.

I do the same. I have been using lighter fuel on the plastic models as well. The underlying paint is Valejo acrylic airbrush paint and doesn't seem to be affected by the lighter fuel - which evaporates almost instantly.

Oh and I do make plenty of mistakes!

Trevor

[philipy]

The name plates were flat when I took them off the build plate - but warped under UV. I was planning to just glue them into place and expect the glue to hold them flat.

I think I'd try to print them on supports with a plate on the build plate, and then trim the supports after curing. Doing it like that should hold it flat.

[Trevor Thompson]

Yes I printed them with supports and a raft - but took them off the supports before exposing to UV. Will be interested to see it curing with supports in place has any effect

Trevor

[-steves-]

I think natural drying on sunlight (when we get it) might improve this vastly as I have had other things go a little funny under UV that didn't in the sun. UV lights also make the resin change colour, again, the sun generally doesn't have such an effect on the resin.

[Trevor Thompson]

Just to finish off this thread here are some photographs of the finished locomotive:

Trevor

[philipy]

You should be very proud of that. Well done indeed.

[ge_rik]

What a beauty!

Rik

[SimonWood]

Absolutely stunning.