I am repairing an area where the baseboards have sagged by building embankments and bridges to raise the track to level.
For the bridge abutments I used builders vinyl moulding, for the piers which will hold the aluminium track support beams I designed them in Tinkercad and 3D printed them.
To give a bit of character to the bridges I decided to make some veneers to attach to the abutments to give a stone look.
They were drawn using Tinkercad, the stone texture design came from the shapes library.
The stone wall (search "stone wall") is for a castle but I just cut the crenellations off.
There is another without mortar found by searching "brick wall"
This was my first foray into using Tinkercad to design something that actually worked, so a big learning curve was involved.
Pictures tell the story better than me
Stone veneer
Veneer detail
Vinyl abutment
Abutment with veneer
Piers
3D printed Bridge Abutments using Tinkercad
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3D printed Bridge Abutments using Tinkercad
Graeme
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Re: 3D printed Bridge Abutments using Tinkercad
Thats really well done Graeme. I have tried to do something similar, but it always ends up looking like the bricks and stone work is full of gaps in the mortar or the brick/stone overlap.
Looking forward to more on the abutments.
Looking forward to more on the abutments.
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