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Re: My locos
Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2021 9:14 am
by ge_rik
wsrbloke wrote: ↑Sat Jul 17, 2021 5:13 pm
Hi, this is my other loco, a 5" gauge Class 27 diesel sitting on our club track ready to go.
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I'm not a wild enthusiast of diesel locos, but ........... What a beauty! Wow! She looks immaculate.
Rik
Re: My locos
Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2021 11:15 am
by Scrat
That Class 27 looks good.
My 5" gauge V200 (nicknamed Taigatrommel) also has several 3d printed parts.
Headlamp housings, brake valves,...
Length over buffers is 1.65m.
Six axle-hung motors and a 24V 300Amp controller give her enough power to pull anything.
Re: My locos
Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2021 3:30 pm
by wsrbloke
Hi,
I must apologize as I should have said at the outset that my 27 was built from a kit a few years ago when I had a bit of spare cash, not printed. It is a Bexhill models one and I am sorry to say the owner Robin Neighbour has passed away after a fight with cancer. He actually delivered the kit personally and stayed and had a cuppa with us. He was a lovely chap. It also looks as though the site has been taken down too.
Ron
Re: My locos
Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2021 5:08 pm
by ge_rik
Ooooohh! This is all so tempting. But I really can't justify a 5" gauge loco ....... can I?
Rik
Re: My locos
Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2021 8:10 pm
by Phil.P
ge_rik wrote: ↑Sun Jul 18, 2021 5:08 pm
Ooooohh! This is all so tempting. But I really can't justify a 5" gauge loco ....... can I?
Rik
No! Of course not!!
You need to go directly to 71/4" gauge..
Re: My locos
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2021 8:55 am
by Scrat
ge_rik wrote: ↑Sun Jul 18, 2021 5:08 pm
Ooooohh! This is all so tempting. But I really can't justify a 5" gauge loco ....... can I?
Rik
Yes! You can.
Sad to hear about Robin, he was a nice chap. I have built one of his TOAD brake van kits.
Re: My locos
Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2021 5:39 pm
by wsrbloke
Hi,
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here are some photos of the one coach i've printed so far. I must now give a shout out to a guy known as Robertino who very kindly posted the files for it on Thingiverse. I had been looking for a coach to print for ages and then found this one, so I'm extremely grateful to him. As you can see it is a Southern region 1st-3rd corridor coach. I had to print it in four parts and then glue them together. The corridor wall and partitions are from card with the seats hot wired from polystyrene. The roof is balsa with a tissue covering fixed with white glue to represent the canvas roof of the original. The print time was quite long but worth it. I may do some more in the future.
Re: My locos
Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2021 6:32 pm
by philipy
Very impressive, well done.
Re: My locos
Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2021 5:09 pm
by angr607
wsrbloke wrote: ↑Sat Jul 24, 2021 5:39 pm
Hi,
20210724_170119.jpg20210724_170119.jpghere are some photos of the one coach i've printed so far. I must now give a shout out to a guy known as Robertino who very kindly posted the files for it on Thingiverse. I had been looking for a coach to print for ages and then found this one, so I'm extremely grateful to him. As you can see it is a Southern region 1st-3rd corridor coach. I had to print it in four parts and then glue them together. The corridor wall and partitions are from card with the seats hot wired from polystyrene. The roof is balsa with a tissue covering fixed with white glue to represent the canvas roof of the original. The print time was quite long but worth it. I may do some more in the future.
I saw that coach on there and was also tempted. Then I looked at the printing time and I can literally design, laser cut and build one in the same amount of time. Including a full interior. So my bullied dreams remain so. For now......
Re: My locos
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2021 6:27 pm
by wsrbloke
Hi,
I know it is a huge print time but I can do mine for a fraction of the cost and at my own pace, and for me they turn out just as good. Everything is printed except the tyres and roof.
Ron