Bedders Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 After a near 20 year break, I've actually started to do some physical model making. It was a shock to me too! But seeing as Richard I was making more progress with my 3d files than I was, it was time to gently ease myself out of the armchair. A few weeks ago this arrived: Which I prompted fell in love with and put in a cupboard as I was too scared to touch. Courage was summoned and the desire to at least make a start on it before the other Richard finished his. I detached the internal sprues and inspected my handiwork closer. The Good: Body came out very well, internal sprues with buffers/vac hose and coupling hook seems ok. Solebar printed well and the brake lever is a highlight. The Bad: On the downside, printing the roof in 2 halves hasn't worked well, with wax being trapped between them and the alignment not being all that. The brake gear was too flimsy, with 3 shoes coming away when the sprue was detached. Could do better: One piece roof, thicker supports for the brakes, re-position the sprues for the brakes to reduce strain when de-spruing. The concept behind the design was to make it as cheap as possible on Shapeways by reducing the footprint, height and supports. I think I've gone too far, but as an exercise in finding the limits whilst still giving me a workable object, it's been a success. A bit of primer later: 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 Impressive. Please tell us more (to my ignorant GW eyes, this looks like a sawn-off siphon, but it is a delightful vehicle, so please educate us) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poggy1165 Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 Funnily enough the GC had some slatted milk vans that were as near as damn it identical to a certain GW siphon. Sadly, I have only ever seen the diagram book drawing, never a GA or a photo. Though I suspect that if one showed up in the background of a photo, 99.9% of people would think it was GW. J. G. Robinson was trained at Swindon, and I strongly suspect that he had contacts there that influenced some of his designs. The GC had a number of fish van types (it was a house speciality). This type is one of the prettier ones and the parts look great. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedders Posted April 4, 2018 Author Share Posted April 4, 2018 It's the smaller sibling (only 16' long) of the bogie fish van; built at the same time with the same styling cues. The L&Y had a very similar van as well - http://www.lyrs.org.uk/images/uploads/D72_web_version.jpg 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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