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A fence. Hmm....

Dave John

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A friend of mine described this as a fence. Well, thats her off the christmas card list.......

 

Anyway, I have been building sections of balustrade. I have no idea how I could have done this without the silhouette. There are 100 sections on the bridge, each of which is laminated with 3 cuts of 10 thou styrene. Thats 2700 shaped holes.

 

I'm sure there is someone out there who has done something similar cutting it all out with a scalpel. It wouldn't be me.

 

So, a pic of the balustrade assembly jig.

 


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I have got the first 20 panel section on the bridge, looks ok from a reasonable viewing distance.

 


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A bit closer, some tidying up needed.

 

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My compliments of the season to all, hope you get a bit of modelmaking time.

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vitalspark

Looks superb and puts me in mind of the Caley down at Scotstoun with the elevated stations.

 

We have been discussing if we should buy a silhouette cutter for our new project and probably will as there will be a large number of 'repeat' on the station frontage apart from the many other details.

 

Still to decide which is best suited as regards the thickness of card it cuts and blade life etc.

Then theres the issue of who in the group will sit down and digest the programme needed to operate it!!

 

What did you purchase and whats your findings re above?

 

Dave / ScRSG 

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Dave John
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Hi dave, 

 

My first tip would be to go to the silhouette site and download the software. Its free, easy to learn, and will let you get a feel for things before buying a cutter. Also various people can design things and just email the files to a group member who has the cutter.   Next step, there is a great thread on rmweb, with lots of folk trying cutting card and styrene, I learned a lot from that.

 

That led me to buy the basic portrait cutter, big enough for my needs in 4mm. I paid about £150, that included spare blades and a couple of spare mats. I am still on the first blade. 

 

Similarly the thread on the CRA forums is full of good stuff, I have uploaded the file for the balustrade there. Feel free to use it. I note that the girders with curved stanchions at scotstoun is the same as Benalder street, in fact they turn up all over the caley in glasgow. Look back a couple of posts at the station building, I think the windows along the L+D have similar stonework details, pics of scotstoun east seem to be like that.  In time I will start an architectural thread on the CRA forums and upload my drawings there. 

 

Also a lot of modelmakers have been using the silhouette to make period rolling stock, I will be catching up on that as time permits. Plenty of info on forums about that. 

 

Hope that helps a bit.

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I like the instructions with the middle picture.

 

Joking aside, that looks brilliant.

 

Adrian

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Londontram

   Dave's right its a very useful tool and has transformed my stock making allowing me to fulfill a dream of building a range of pre grouping stock which would have taken years to get to the point where I am now even if at all.

 

   Some people think its a wonder tool and will produce finished kits. It wont but as an aid to scratch build its brilliant as it can produce complex shapes and designs again and again cutting down the time and risk of error completely.

 

   As Dave said the tutorial on here is very helpful and I soon picked it up and as a 54 year old technophobe who thought he was to old a dog to pick up any new tricks I've surprised myself about what I've learnt and how far I've come in just a year.

 

So come on in the waters lovely

                                              Steve

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That looks excellent, Dave. Thanks also for the tips on the cutter - I hadn't thought of downloading the software first.

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