So anyway, the stl's imported into Sketchup with no problems at all and I've spent the last couple of weeks adding rivets etc, and redrawing a few bits to get them the way I wanted. Once you start down this particular rabbit hole it is amaaaaazing just how many rivets and bolts and lumps and bits, there are!
Rather than an "Alice" I'm doing a "Britomart" type and since it won't be an exact model of an exact protoptype, Rule 1 applies! The final batch of Quarry Hunslets went to the Nantlle Vale quarries, two to Pen-yr-Orsedd Quarry and one to Dorothea Quarry I believe.
Strangely enough I can't find any references to the 4th one of the batch.
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So anyway, back to the model. I'm printing most of it in resin and the chassis and footplate are now off the printer, together with 2 buffer beam overlays. I'm doing it like this to take advantage of printing things flat on the plate to improve the surfaces with little or no supports to worry about. The wheels are also done, but in filament. I'm trying a new type of filament for them and I'll say more about that later.
Now with the footplate glued to the underframe and the buffer overlays alongside, this is where I am today, in primer.
I'm going to try painting the various components and sub-assembly's before putting it all together in the hope of avoiding all sorts of masking issues further down the line.