That does look very good indeed - this white detail stuff seems to offer a much finer finish

Looks good.

How strong is it compared to bodies made from other materials?

Paul.

Paul, James,

Yeah detail is pretty good, the finish is much better than i expected,I'll be looking at various ways of 'smoothing' the slight imperfections, there appears to be quite a few things I'd like to try, regarding strength, well, I've not destruction tested it (yet) but I'm happy with it, it has a wall thickness of about 1mm, it's certainly as strong as a plasticard fabricated tram, it requires less careful handling than one of my normal scratchbuilt ones, primiraly because there's no joints, to a degree there is always a strength issue with the window pillars on a plasticard/plastruct tram, not so with this thoough.

Mark.

I really must check my spelling before posting a comment!

I like the look of that Mark! and if you want it testing to destruction...

Paul

Jamie, the print in the pictures is 4mm, I'm thinking of getting the CAD done to 2mm and 7mm scale as well...........

Paul, let me get it finished first, you or Andrea get try and destruction test it first when operating 'Grime Street' , my money is on Mrs Red Devil.............

Very nice!

Mark,

Terrific work! This new technology opens up all sorts of exciting possibilities for tram modelling everywhere.

Cheers,

Graeme

Cheers all for the positive comments, very quick pic of it in it's first coat of primer on this thread

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php/topic/8147-3d-printing-class-25-parts/page__st__125__gopid__351997

I'll try and get some more done over the weekend and stuck up on the blog but I've got a pretty busy weekend and I may not be in the mood.........fa cup tie.........Old Trafford 5.15...........!!!!

I can't help but think that one of these in 7mm scale, and in the original blue and white livery, would be absolutely awesome.

I can't help but think that one of these in 7mm scale, and in the original blue and white livery, would be absolutely awesome.

7mm version of the CAD being done asap. Terry Russell already does the trucks http://www.terryrusselltrams.co.uk/motorimages/C18_lge.jpg I've spoken to Terry about it.....!

In fact, was checking on the Shapeways site, maximum model size is 70x38x58cm. 7mm would be approx 245mm long and a 1 /16 version 667mm...........!

Quite a few Leeds ones that are not easily available at the moment, and also 2 in particular that I really fancy having a go at are a Grimsby and Immingham long car and an ex Gateshead single decker that ran on the G&I, I really habour plans to model the G&I and the Grimsby district light railway, trams and B1s etc running parrallel..!