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3D printed Arley Station Building (inside the real thing: Spring Gala 2015)

Will J

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A little while ago I mentioned I was drawing up a 3D model of Arley station (as preserved on the Severn Valley Railway) and the results have arrived from Shapeways, rendered in the relatively coarse 'White Strong and Flexible' material which was the same thing I used for the stone abutments on N Gauge Victoria Bridge...

 

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All scaled from the very useful drawings in Barrie Geens' very useful book 'The Severn Valley Railway at Arley'. Nice to see the drawing apparently rising up from the surface of the page!

 

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In the 3D model I left the door to the gents' loos slightly open.... for no other reason than 'because you can'.... other details like the post box on the other end came out crisply, able to accept little 2mm/ft letters....

 

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Next step... make a start on painting it, and create a station around the building. Some interesting challenges lie in store like the smart Hawksworth 12 wheeled sleeping car which provides volunteer accommodation in the yard.

 

Back to mini Victoria Bridge, a wonderful weekend was spent (with the station building 'fresh' from the printers on show) in Arley waiting room itself in March for the unusually spring-like Spring Gala. I really enjoyed being a small part of an excellent event and it was great to meet such an appreciative crowd at Arley.

 

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I will have Victoria Bridge, and the beginnings of mini-Arley, on show at Wyre Forest MRC's 40th anniversary event in Stourport on Severn (a short hop from Kidderminster and Bewdley) on the 25th April. See: http://www.wyreforestmrc.com/exhibition.html

 

Please come along and support the show if you are in the area. It is a small local event bringing layouts for all tastes, N gauge, OO modern image depot, 009 micro, big 009 layout, scenic 0-16.5, even bigger Canadian HO scale, drawn from our club members collections.

 

We will have layouts on shelves and ironing boards, up to something more ambitious in scale: http://cprailmmsub.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/great-canadian-model-railroad-in-england.html

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Rammstein2609

Looking Good!

 

Have you modelled the mortar joins in the brick work?  If so how well has it printed?

 

I've got a station building and signal box to model and I've been wondering whether to go the 3D printed or laser cut route.  

 

That building looks like a cracking little model.

 

Martin

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Will J

No brick detail to report on I'm afraid. The texture of the brick is very smooth on the real thing, so the walls are smooth and bricks will be suggested with paint. The flat surface will be broken up with plenty of posters etc... Photographed and then stuck on separately. I may use a similar trick for the tiles on the roof.

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