Following a period of building some loco bodies out of cardboard I've returned to my CAD work and have some models pending from the printers. I am hopeful that I will be able to successfully clean up the resultant prints (having spent a lot of time experimenting getting the best out of my existing prints - as well as making some BIG mistakes as well!). My current work is mainly concentrating on a K3 body which is designed to be a direct fit onto Farish V2 chassis (with rear pony removed!). I have two of these on order - one is being printed in plastic and the other in stainless steal!

One problem with 3D printing is being able to remove the print lines. This is a side effect of the way the items are manufactured layer by layer and preserving small details during clean up is difficult. This is why I have order a print in steal as hopefully the finer details will survive some rougher handling during the clean up operation. I find 3D designing more satisfying that my scratch building efforts and hope that I will be able to create a good enough master to cast from.