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Whilst there are several booklets, for conifers in particular YouTube is very good, Luke Towan and Boomer Diorama have both done excellent videos showing how they make beautifully detailed trees and there are several others out there. For broadleaf trees there are a number of videos but Kathy Millat did an excellent video creating one tree in 4 seasons. I appreciate these are videos not books but they are a. free and b. allow you to see the process far more clearly than in most books

The BOB is a mystery but perhaps because it's only a short link to Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen it's not popular enough for mass market, the lack of WAB is easy to explain, it's not meter gauge (only 800mm) and mostly it runs at a 20% gradient which means you need to have your turnouts complete with the central rack rail and that whilst possible gets expensive very quickly it also means that over even a short distance the track climbs very quickly. I'm going to have a go at building the Modern Wengen station since that is pretty much level over the platforms along with a feed in and out

This is used in theatre and if I recall correctly is called using flats. it allows you to give the appearance of significant depth in a very short distance, low relief by comparison typically uses a distorted perspective effect on a 3D structure, the two techniques can be combined so you go from true 3d in the foreground to low relief to flats to a often hazy backdrop of sky

The previous single car train was longer, but the tight turns on the road up to winteregg along with the removal of the old funicular track meant that its replacement now articulates in the middle. Many of the updated narrow gauge trains are being put in to improve disabled access, Not sure if that is the case here or if the old ones had just worn out

Sort of/Maybe, to create a 3D object you need lots of points of data, a photograph is a flat view from one direction, but what you can do is use AI to effectively generate an approximation, but to do so requires you to teach the AI what you are after, thus people are common so it's relatively easy to create a good/realistic looking human using AI or an Egyptian Pyramid or a loaf of bread, but tell it to create a hybrid between a Grey Alien and a Oriental Human and chances are you will just get an oriental human with grey skin

There's still some work to do with AI for image generation but if one uses negative constraints to eliminate the more obvious AI aberrations such as six or more fingers per hand and odd looking eyes then the results can be remarkably good for the small amount of time it takes. Potentially as a source of ideas for scenery it might be very effective the image here was created by simply asking for a village bakery, with lots of baked goods on display in the window, less than one minute of processing got me this, with a tiny bit of effort one could easily take the window on the left and turn it into a display behind a model shop window

Typically with post processing DXF files different layers (or frequently different colours) are used to differentiate different types of cut. As an example Red used for outline cuts around objects Blue used to etch a surface Green used to cut holes within objects When the dxf file is processed the etching is often done first, then any cutouts/holes and finally the outline Sometimes especially with very small parts it's better to not fully cut out the outlines, typically with a large laser the bed allows debris to fall through, if your very small parts fall through they will be lost forever

Generally most places will want DXF files, in theory you could probably use G Code but if the G Code is wrong you could be looking at an expensive machine to repair

costs will depend entirely on how much work you have already done, if you have decent accurate 2d drawings the costs will be a lot less than getting someone else to do the reserch first before doing the modeling , you also need someone who can take the design and turn it into something that will look in scale and 3d print, I've been 3D CAD modelling for 30 years now feel free to PM me

It's almost certainly data stored in the image, most commonly found in pictures taken via mobile phone or tablet, edit it in a photo editing package and when you safe as a .jpg do not save the EXIF Data, it should then import correctly

To be fair many 3D printers take at least 48 hours for large models, A lot depends on the size of the print and the resolution as well as what material, large 3D printers may load up multiple prints in a single printer, this takes time to set up, using the maximum volume for each print run, then they may need to remove "sprues" or other post processing work . Pricing so far as I am concerned will be related to the size of a print, If someone comes to me with just a couple of 00 scale figures that need printing and they are in no hurry then I will add them to the next print run and the price will be low (materials wise a 00 scale figure in resin is only a few pennies) on the other hand if they want the print ASAP then that means making a special print run. clean up and then sending out by courier and the cost will be much much higher. If you purchase STL's then there will normally be restrictions such as printing for yourself only and not selling the prints to others This can potentially be difficult if you want a third party to print for you.

I live just half a dozen miles from Hurst Castle, the wall collapse was I'm afraid English Heritage ignoring repeated warnings that the wall at that end of the castle had been undermined by wave action and doing nothing to protect it, they were apparently too busy working on the other wing of the castle to even check it out, a lot of locals are very angry about this... The little diorama looks pretty good to me though obviously the stone wall needs work David

That is very helpful, page 341 of Southern Nouveau suggests 4' 5 2/8" between centers for the end panels with a poster board sized as 4 Sheet D.C, at 5'5" tall and 3'9" wide Page 61 same book By the way I think the doors are slightly out, the ones in your drawing appear to have a concrete lintel above the doors, however as built at New Milton no such lintel can be seen, this is possibly due to the early nature of the New Milton construction circa 1930 and is certainly unusual, but a few other pictures in the above book appear to show doors without lintels so it was not unique, perhaps lintels were a modification when SR took over production ?

So my copy of Southern Nouveau arrived yesterday and there are several very similar designs on pages 346-347 the one at the bottom of 346 is longer by one 3'4" panel but narrower by the same amount however it has an identical chimney and a similar roof angle with the ends and roof clad in corrugated asbestos, but they have the same longer end panels and theres even one at the top of 347 with a silmilarly sized poster area, given the New Milton one seems to have been installed prior to 1931 it must have been a fairly early example. Thanks to everyone for their help. I may look at creating a set of 3D parts to enable pre fabricated buildings of this sort at 00 scale, I think I only need 2 3'4" panels (one with a window) a double and single door, mid post and corner post to be able to produce the walls plus a selection of top and bottom of wall beams which should be easily doable, if I do these then addin the extra bits needed for the larger goods shed would only add another half dozen or so parts if anyone here thinks that worthwhile ?

Quite possibly especially if they purchased a pre supported model from someone else