njee20
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If an exhibitor wants to lean on their layout that’s their prerogative. One assumes they’re doing so consciously in the knowledge that the layout is not about to buckle under their weight/fall over/get broken.
If a punter does it that’s beyond rude! A lot seem to do it to steady a hand while they video. Madness I tells you.
same goes for all sort of things frankly. Cars, bikes, bags, food. Not yours? Don’t bloody touch it.
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Headed to Billingshurst station for 8:20. Quite a crowd awaiting Mayflower, but they announced it was 90 minutes late. I couldn’t even find it on Traksy/RTT until the posts here, by which time it was at Horsham. Made it back in time with the children. Still a big crowd waiting for it!
excuse the poor quality stills taken from a video!
D1935 (47805) pushing hard on the back, presumably to help regain time. Looks like it pulled back 20 minutes.
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Meanwhile yours truly has been quoted on the matter in everyone’s favourite publication “Reinsurance News” 🤓 https://www.reinsurancene.ws/high-number-of-cargo-claims-anticipated-from-stuck-vessels-following-baltimore-bridge-collapse/
Got a couple of follow up interviews tomorrow, watch this space for more vague comments about the cost of it!-
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Why can’t it…? I often use Dapol mk3s to check point work as it’s easy to remove the bogies.
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Haha, they’re very tempting! I eschewed the 3 as the 2 is great, but I feel I may ‘need’ a 4! Look forward to hearing about it either way 👍
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Does look very interesting. I need to work out if the marked reduction in Z height is a problem for anything I print.
as ever with us it’s a gamble on pre-ordering and getting stung with taxes versus just waiting until Amazon have stock. The prices are compelling though.
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39 minutes ago, Rugd1022 said:
Photo by Doug Pritchard : superb weathering here...
It's a nice depot diorama, but they've messed up the red stripe on the back 47 - it doesn't extend around the cab side like the other two, and they've obviously not yet done the weathered Railfreight logos.
The dry brushing is good, but I'd urge the modeller to look at photos of the real thing - the brush marks on the roof that one in the foreground look really unnatural, and they've missed altogether the bit above the windscreens.
Don't get me started on the opening door gimmick too. At least they've not gone with the cliche of having a driving leaning out.
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Personally always preferred the red, but I like the heritage concept and they’ve done a great job on 611.
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That’s really helpful. That does suggest it would be useful to add one to the arsenal! If the print volume was slightly bigger than my existing FDM printer it would be a no-brainer!
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Thanks, that’s helpful. I guess I’m more interested in the Bambu alongside other FDM printers. I’m totally happy with the workflow for resin, although I can see how much more faff it is, and I definitely see me always using resin printers more. The speed is sort of attractive, but ultimately I start a print and leave it, so it doesn’t really matter.
essentially I only ever use my resin printers for railway stuff at the moment because the finish on FDM is so massively inferior, and it’s whether the Bambu printers have closed that gap, for things like buildings where you’ve got lots of straight edges and hard corners where resin will not be optimal.
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As a precis to stop the “well for detail buy a resin printer” comments - I have multiple resin printers and I have an FDM printer, so obviously I need more!
I’ve been impressed with what I’ve seen from the Bambu Lab X1/P1P (I believe they’re the same hardware, but no enclosure on the P1P and it foregoes some of the bells and whistles), anyone using one?
I confess I’ve never messed about too much with my FDM printer, it works fine for what I want it to do (which is basically never railway stuff), but the Bambu Lab printers really look like they’re blurring the lines (often literally) between FDM and resin. Obviously at a fundamental level the technology is still the same, but with the speed and the finish they seem to achieve it’s a tempting proposition!
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Even if you did slavishly recreate it I’d argue that just laying a 36-road yard is easier than building a complex shed building in an already complex yard!
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8 hours ago, 97403_Ixion said:
Hi all,
Happily purchased a Dapol N 59005 to complement the Revolution pair I have. While very happy with sound on both (the Dapol was a little loud by default!), I noticed the side lights on 59005 (i.e. the Yeoman 59/0) only show on one side of the loco. The instructions seem to suggest you can have day or night lights, or off, using internal switches. Watching videos of 59/0's I cannot find an occasion of just one side light being on.
Does the Dapol N gauge 59 only illuminate one white marker or should the model have both lit, i.e. as per the real loco?
I have tried looking through this and the OO threads and it does read like there is/was an issue with the OO and I think I saw mention it may be addressed in future. I wondered if it may have been addressed on the N gauge model.
Just trying to ascertain if my model is faulty, or as per the manufacturer designed it.
Thanks in advance,
Ixion.
It’s by design, and it’s wrong. All 4 lights should be illuminated. I have seen it fixed, but not sure how.
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I think Nick is probably right to pose his ideas, becuase if I was spending £20,000 and many years of my life on a layout I would want everyone's considerations, even if I eventually ignore them!
I think what Drew has come up with is a little bit the 'safe' option for people who find themself with a large space in which to build a layout. Ultimately it's a scaled up version of what you'd build on a 6x4 board; roundy roundy outside, with some sidings in the middle, there's just more of them.
Nick's idea really is ripping that up, and probably making better use of hte space, insofar as you couldn't build huge elements of that in a small space. It's a more adventurous approach too, which could be seen as better or worse.
I think scale plays a factor here - N gauge is brilliant for watching scale length trains meander through scenery, and less good for lots of nadgery (definitely a word) shunting. If that's what the OP wants then great, sitting back with a tea/beer while your trains circulate around you, or shuffling stuff around in the yard while that goes on is probably quite therapeutic, if not the ultimate operating challenge.
I've no dog in this fight - like others I was attracted by the idea of a large N gauge layout, and a lot of the considerations are ones I have had for when I get around to undertaking a garage conversion to give me space for something similar! From a completely blank canvas I prefer Nick's idea, but I fully understand the rationale Chris has employed of evolution versus revolution, and I think where he's got the plan is excellent.
TL:DR: they're both good!-
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I'm a big fan, it's my 'day-to-day' resin. Well priced, although the grey is often out of stock (I usually use black in these instances). I typically pay £16-18/litre. The 3 litre bottles are particularly good value.
I don't have a MonoX2, so no help there though I'm afraid.
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You cure for an hour?!
IME if you intentionally break something it’ll often fail along a layer plane.
I printed turnout bases at an angle. They came out well. No chairs failed. I’m happy with this. I note your opinion based on theory though. 👍
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That’s the headhunt. The siding is behind the camera. It’s 330m long (2.2m in N). Look on Google Maps, turn on satellite view, there’s a 5-car unit there, as said.
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So you mean you heat to 60 degrees for an hour prior to curing…? I’ll confess i skimmed that video, but it hasn’t changed my mind - printing something like track bases flat to the bed will make failure of the chairs in sheer far more likely than if you print at an angle.
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That was my other concern, by printing flat you’re compromising the shear strength of the chairs, as the layers run ‘through’ them.
Personally I’ve shelved rhe printed track at the mo, as lots of stock bumps on the chairs and the running is poor! Adjustment takes longer than building with copper clad! One to return to in future…
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1 hour ago, Siberian Snooper said:
Martin Wynne of Templot fame prints track bases directly on the build plate for fdm prints, but emphasis that it it needs to be flat and level. He uses a glass build plate. Hayfield of this parish, has some experience of 3d printing.
FDM is totally different in this respect. You don’t get elephants foot with FDM.
I printed track bases at an angle, use lots of light supports with a 0.15mm contact patch and depth, minimises the marks.
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2 hours ago, Siberian Snooper said:
I know that this is closing the stable door after the horse has bolted, but I can see a case of tugs being compulsory where large ships are required to navigate through bridges.
My thoughts are with the missing and their families.
The flipside there is how many thousands of vessels successfully navigate under bridges without hitting them? What's the limit? No barges under Tower Bridge without tug escort?
The video of the collapse and the daylight footage is harrowing, we can only hope the casualty list remains short.
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Rugby:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/AoX5LcvbVFih2MTo7
The new building is off to the left, but the old station building is the red brick one atop the platforms that can just be seen. Sure there are plenty of other examples.
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Leaned the same myself and left the plastic on most of my printers! Looks differently rubbish!