I had a crack at the third, first, and two brake third types to start with - in part because they are very similar so a lot can be cut and pasted. I've not found suitable fonts for the LNER brown livery and teak looks to be very very hard so I'll give that a miss for now.

I see you also got the brasso on the underframe as I did :icon_mutter: ...I guess its some black paint to the rescue for that one :icon_razz:

You could pop the underframe off the body before attacking it with brasso. They're easy enough to get off by sliding a steel edge between and twisting near the plastic 'rivets'. It also makes it easy to upgrade the underframe/sole bar section with an etched Ultima kit.

G.

I normally do but this coach like quite a few of the newer ones I've had has the underframe and body shell glued together. I will indeed repaint the underframe - but after I've replaced it.

It now has an underframe on it which has shown up a problem I'd not considered - the solebars I have are designed to fit inside the edge of an etched fold up shell and the battery boxes are designed to fit likewise so needed sawing down to size. I think I may need to etch some alternatives.

Pete: I'm not aware of a method to avoid the white edges. It's one reason I normally use etched sides or paint sides. Adam did post some suggestions to the n gauge group about the white edges. I seem to remember that felt tip pen was mentioned.

Hiya EP

What sort of files does your Vinyl cutter use?

Cheers

Jim

The cutter itself talks a subset of HP-GL and some other vendor HP-GL like language. That seems to be fairly common for such devices although some of the very low end ones have a USB connector and dump bits of the processing onto the PC. Inkscape will convert a lot of formats to HP-GL and the windows softrware supplied (which I don't use) has plugins for some drawing programs as well. In theory anything that will output fairly simple postscript also ought to be convertible into suitable cutting lists.

Sadly its not strong enough to cut thick card or all but the thinnest of styrene sheet and laser cutters are a bit too expensive

Thanks for the info

Cheers

Jim

Thanks for the info

Cheers

Jim

Its a CE5000-40. The bigger brother of the Craft Robo and I believe the version I have was also discontinued some time ago which has the Windows users cross as there is no new software for it now. It's really more of a pro vinyl sign cutter so unless you also do signwriting the craft robo upgrade is probably a new craft robo if you've worn the poor thing out. Maybe you'll be the first person to claim craft robos are 'consumables' to the taxman. [1]

Alan

[1] In the games industry years ago we had a similar argument with the taxman because Amiga and Atari mice really didn't last more than a few months in a work environment !