The prints come out very nicely:

A quick mock up of the parts before glueing:

very happy!

A little bit of clean up to ensure the join line is square and the body is glued together, surface finished and primed:

The chassis was glued and primed and painted. I will glue the chassis and body together but it could be drilled and bolted or double sided tape….just paint before assembly…

I used Vallejo Model Air and the finish came out great!

the chassis detail comes out nicely and the Replica Railways B5 bogies go in to the pivot mount holes with only minor cleaning out to get the pivot action nice an smooth.

Some transfers from Railtec and we have a nice model:

A really straightforward build - all the hard work done at the design and print set up stage!

Brilliant. Love it.

Very nice job indeed.  Is it commercially available ?

If people want to PM me I can make them available 

New single piece prints. Very pleased with these:

On 08/07/2022 at 15:27, LMSfan72 said:

New single piece prints. Very pleased with these:

 

These look great! Just about finished my two piece one. A 2 piece one would be far easier though! When will these be on eBay ? 

I should have some available in a couple of weeks time. Just bedding in the printer to make the print reliable!

Lovely I’ll keep a eye out for them! 

Had a go at a TT scale version too. They came out nicely! Just need to work out what to do for bogies. Maybe it’s time to draw my own B5….

For the most part I don’t need to do any finishing now that they are one piece bodies that I print. Occasionally I will get a line in the body that needs to be sanded/filled but that I think is resin temperature related in the cold weather. If that happens then I would tend to fix that before I post cure, or, I throw it away and print another! The red TT version has had no work done at all. The yellow one didn’t have any sanding and is primed and then painted with a Halfords rattle can.

I just use a standard resin, nothing fancy. I do them in the cheapest colour I can find at the time. Usually I use Elegoo or Anycubic brand.

I have an Elegoo Jupiter printer that I use for these as I can print them in a single piece due to the large dimensions.

Just PM me when you’d like one!

I have decided to clear out my development models for space. If anyone is interested in some of them please PM me (I am not giving them away but before I put them on eBay I thought I'd give followers the chance) - I have 10 in total, all painted of which 8 are in full livery. They will all need bogies and buffers to complete and I can add in bushings for certain bogies if you know what you want to use.