Brackhampton Snow Hill

Hi Dean, well I know nothing about this sort of thing so can't offer much of an opinion I'm afraid. For something that would otherwise be tricky to scratchbuild,  they look good to me. The wall piece is an interesting idea, has this sort of thing been done before in laser printing? As for material, white plastic sounds more easy to work with than frosted acrylic, but I have no idea whether it's possible. 

I wonder if the laser prints could be used as masters for resin casting...?

Thanks MIkkel, it struck me that the platform buildings lent themselves to being broken down into standard parts - bit like the old timber framed buildings do. I'll be posting a picture of the finished design work for this bit of wall probably tonight. Although it has taken an awful long time adding all the brickwork, if it can be used either as is or for producing castings. At least it will mean that the arches and such like do look then same which would have been the problem with scratchbuilding.

 

As to materials, like you I don't know much about them, but the cheaper the material the coarser the level of detail. Shapeways wouldn't print the exterior column as it was too brittle in White plastic, but was ok in Fine Ultra Detail acrylic (and more than twice as expensive).

 

Horsetan - I'm toying with moulding and resin - something else new to me - but I think it will work better for the wall sections, than for the columns and girders as these have relief both sides and the walls are flat on the back - or could be.

 

If I do cast the walls I need to consider whether leaving the windows out and perhaps having these etched. At the moment the wall section includes the window frames.