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Talentless bumbling around the murky world of pre-grouping...

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Project No.1: SMAR 1-3 IV

By the end of the year, he said... It's looking slightly unlikely now, although I guess for more positive reasons than that I just haven't been making the progress...   The last major chunks of the model - the smokebox door hinge, buffer guides and cab steps - have been added. Rivets have also been counted (I know...) and drawn on and I decided to add the cab handrails to the main body. I had envisioned locating wire into pre-drawn holes for these, but the space I'm working in between the side
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Project No.1: SMAR 1-3 III

More incremental progress - my SMAR 0-6-0 has gained: a smokebox, a chimney, a dome, boiler bands, a safety valve mount, sandboxes, some semblance of water tank filler lids. And frankly it's starting to look like the real deal... (If I do say so myself). I feel close to a test print, now. It's hard to say. Cab steps and buffer housings are definitely going on, and I want to put some small holes in to help locate some of the details I'm not going to print (handrails, pipes, etc
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Project No.1: SMAR 1-3 II

How time flies...   In the Summer of 2017, I was preparing blog post number three when my laptop hard drive packed up. As backing all my personal things up had sat at the top of my to-do list for several months, a lot was lost. Most upset about the photographs, although naturally it had a big impact on my 3D printing modelling ambitions too. Short term, I started using my work laptop for internet things. This was fine, although is too locked down for installing any of my own software. I had th
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Project No. 1: SMAR 1-3

Longer term, I have ambitions to dabble in custom chassis. I've seen a few people on here who designed them to be 3D printed, although little evidence, one way or another, to suggest whether they have ultimately proven successful or not. I have my reservations, but also no experience, so I'll reserve judgement for now. The sensible option for project number one seemed to be to design something to fit to a commercially available chassis - walk before you run, etc.   Browsing through Nile's exce
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Welcome

Hello and welcome,   I had started writing out my introductory post on here when I was called away from my laptop, it locked itself, refused to unlock and decided to update Windows for two hours when I tried to restart it instead. Rather thrown my off my stride, but there we go. I'll probably keep this brief, maybe add more detail tomorrow...   So a couple of years ago, I attended an exhibition in Milton Keynes, and there was one particular layout there that stood out, primarily just because
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