Re: The Railway in the Valley of the Mill
Posted: Mon May 11, 2026 4:54 pm
Unfortunately I didn’t manage to take any! Hopefully Simon will come through with lots,
Phil
Phil
Thank you Trevor! I am most likely to follow your lead in making buildings this way, I made a whole N gauge (albeit small) layout from 3D printed bits and pieces. I have also just completed a G scale bogie coach. I have a print bed size of 320mm x 340mm so I should be able to print out some nice modular style buildings with that! I am only using tinkercad at the moment, but I may move on to some other more advanced software when the time comes.Trevor Thompson wrote: ↑Wed May 06, 2026 8:17 pmSorry to take so long to respond to this. I haven't been on the forum for a while.nlc1072 wrote: ↑Fri May 01, 2026 12:23 amI know it's a while back, but do you have any photos or talks on how you designed and built these station buildings? They're quite incredible.Trevor Thompson wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 4:16 pm The station building is now finished and installed on the railway:
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The goods shed is temporarily in place to mark its footprint in the station area. All three buildings are set in dry mortar and levelled. I am looking for a damp night tonight. and from the other end:
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I made the tunnel yesterday, and you can see the its mouth in the distance. The tunnel is made from old bricks, with paving slabs for a roof. I am going to hide the bricks by cladding the entrances with stonework , and extending that to edge the cutting each side of the trackbed.
Finally a low level photo which shows some of the detail:
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The adverts were printed onto self adhesive photographic paper, mounted on a printed backing, and varnished. Just need some customers to occupy the seats under the veranda.
Trevor
I don't really know what I can show you to answer your question about the buildings. I think I have put quite a lot onto the forum about them already - and I don't want to bore everyone by going into copious detail.
At least I can say that things have moved on even in the last 12 months. A new computer has enabled me to use Autocad Fusion, instead of Sketchup to design the buildings. It still involves finding a plan for the original building and inputing it into the CAD software so I can trace it. Because it has to be built in pieces (maximum print size is 250 x 250 mm) the design has to be done with that in mind. In the end it still comes down to laboriously drawing stonework onto the surfaces and then "pulling" the stones out 1mm from the surface - to create the appearance of stonework.
Then it is a matter of printing each component and glueing them together as they are printed. That can take weeks for the bigger buildings. It all seems a bit extreme - and I don't suppose any one else is likely to follow my lead in making these large buildings!
Trevor