RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted March 16, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 16, 2021 43 minutes ago, Tricky said: In real life about 3.5mm across, so about 1 1/2” scale. So you won't be doing these in 4 mm scale anytime soon? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tricky Posted March 16, 2021 Author Share Posted March 16, 2021 12 minutes ago, Compound2632 said: So you won't be doing these in 4 mm scale anytime soon? Like this? 4 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tricky Posted March 19, 2021 Author Share Posted March 19, 2021 (edited) Some more detail work on Truro island building, including some ridiculously tiny door knobs getting a coat of ‘brass’ paint. Edited March 19, 2021 by Tricky 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted March 19, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 19, 2021 Are you holding the building upside down, or has the photo been posted the wrong way up? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tricky Posted March 20, 2021 Author Share Posted March 20, 2021 11 hours ago, Compound2632 said: Are you holding the building upside down, or has the photo been posted the wrong way up? The latter. For some reason it rotated it.... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike G Posted March 24, 2021 Share Posted March 24, 2021 Richard Are the doors and door handles available on the website...4mm scale? regards Mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tricky Posted March 25, 2021 Author Share Posted March 25, 2021 16 hours ago, Mike G said: Richard Are the doors and door handles available on the website...4mm scale? regards Mike Afraid not in 4mm. They are only 7mm, available through Intentio. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tricky Posted April 17, 2021 Author Share Posted April 17, 2021 Here’s some sack loads for a commission I’ve been working on. The eagle-eyed will notice both types are shown displayed in the same wagon as the loads are removable. Individual sacks made up from cotton cloth and stamped with the logos. 6 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted April 17, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 17, 2021 Interesting goods yard scene your customer must be modelling... I'm much taken with your roosting clamps. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tricky Posted April 17, 2021 Author Share Posted April 17, 2021 30 minutes ago, Compound2632 said: Interesting goods yard scene your customer must be modelling... I'm much taken with your roosting clamps. I had a discussion with him whether to sheet or not to sheet (say it carefully). Can’t remember the outcome now! I have a plague of roosting clamps, about 50 at the last count! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted April 17, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 17, 2021 6 hours ago, Tricky said: I had a discussion with him whether to sheet or not to sheet (say it carefully). Well, ask him from me if he'd let his daughter go out flaunting her wares like that. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted May 4, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 4, 2021 Happy Birthday. I put this photo on my wagon building thread when I first received the Huntley & Palmers crates from you. I'm afraid lockdown lassitude has been hitting me a bit so I've not, I'm afraid, done much more towards the planned micro-layout "The Lower Loading Shed": Compare the original photo. I really should have tweaked the positions of some of the ropes before taking the photo. I blame my excitement at having these exquisite little objects in my mitts. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted May 4, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 4, 2021 Gorgeous bits of the model maker's art aren't they? Dave 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tricky Posted May 5, 2021 Author Share Posted May 5, 2021 Thanks guys! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted July 6, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 6, 2021 (edited) I just want to give credit to Tricky for the service he has provided to me. A while ago he agreed to have a go at 3D printing some panels for the sides of the 7mm Midland water tank I am building for my MPD layout but then had trouble with them. However, he persevered at great cost to himself in time and effort with the result that this morning I received a parcel containing the requisite panels but not only that, they were ready mounted on plywood backing sheets and primed. Truly outstanding service. Thank you Richard. Dave No connection with Monksgate Models except as a very satisfied customer. Edited July 6, 2021 by Dave Hunt 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tricky Posted July 29, 2021 Author Share Posted July 29, 2021 You may recall me making mention of a photo plank. I’ve made a few now for customers but have decided to make one for myself. I started one a little while ago but in reflection it was too shallow to get a retaining wall in plus some undergrowth behind it. So I’ve started again. This time with a hardwood frame and rebate to take an acrylic dust cover. I’m also repurposing a bracket signal redundant from Monk’s Gate and added the toe end of a turnout to a) justify the bracket signal and b) give a bit more interest. The groundworks will be taken care of by my very good friend Neil Podbery. If anyone wants to make use of the Mk I photo plank then I could finish it off for a good price. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tricky Posted August 17, 2021 Author Share Posted August 17, 2021 Been working today on a collection of O Gauge crossings. These are for a commission where the whole layout is on a curve so nothing is straight! Here I’ve drawn the whole layout in Autocad and then used those drawings to cut templates on the laser. The templates are oriented upside down so the vee can be soldered from below along with scrap brass ties which fixes the vee and wing rails together. I’ve got a couple more plain crossings to do before moving on to the last one which is the most complicated one where I’ve combined crossings and a diamond in close proximity. Using these templates means that the rails can be formed to the required curves very accurately and held firmly and accurately while being soldered up. All of the wing rails are drawn over-length as these are trimmed to length and flares added later once the crossing is removed from the template. The only slight niggle to this technique of making crossings is the templates aren’t reusable as they get damaged during the build process. 8 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brylonscamel Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 I have only just started to make turnouts, so I am watching your posts with interest! Out of curiosity, are you using AutoCad rather than tools such as 'Templot' because it's a familiar package and is more suited to producing files for the laser-cutter? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tricky Posted August 18, 2021 Author Share Posted August 18, 2021 3 hours ago, brylonscamel said: I have only just started to make turnouts, so I am watching your posts with interest! Out of curiosity, are you using AutoCad rather than tools such as 'Templot' because it's a familiar package and is more suited to producing files for the laser-cutter? Autocad is very familiar to me, yes. It’s what I grew up with - old dogs and all that…! And yes again, it’s ideally suited to making drawings (dxf) for the laser. Here’s some crossings I made the other day using the same method. These wyes are so tight (it’s a dockyard setting) and unprototypical that I am told Templot would throw it’s hands up in horror! 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold martin_wynne Posted August 19, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 19, 2021 14 hours ago, Tricky said: These wyes are so tight (it’s a dockyard setting) and unprototypical that I am told Templot would throw it’s hands up in horror! Of course it wouldn't. Templot is a tool. It does whatever you tell it to do. Martin. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tricky Posted August 19, 2021 Author Share Posted August 19, 2021 3 hours ago, martin_wynne said: Of course it wouldn't. Templot is a tool. It does whatever you tell it to do. Martin. Thanks Martin, as I said, I was ‘told’ by my customer that he had tried Templot and couldn’t get it to do what he wanted. I’ve got no real experience with it so just went down my usual Autocad route - especially as drawing for the laser is a doddle. Nothing derogatory intended about Templot, no offence meant, I hope none taken. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tricky Posted September 24, 2021 Author Share Posted September 24, 2021 Been working on an interesting prototype - a concrete silo which was used in a stone crushing plant attached to a Great Western branch near Exeter. The original was built around the turn of the last century and is in quite a brutalist functional style! It makes extensive use of shuttered concrete and is just about still standing, although fast succumbing to the ravages of time. Construction is mostly 3mm mdf laser cut and covered in paper strips. I may well do a write up with a more in-depth description of the methods used. 12 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Kris Posted September 24, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 24, 2021 Cracking looking model, but oh my is it ever ugly. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitpw Posted September 24, 2021 Share Posted September 24, 2021 You've got the boarded shuttering for the concrete spot on (and the corrugated sheeting too). Quite an early date for in-situ mass concrete construction: is it still in existence? Not everyone's cup-of-tea but I have a liking for C20th industrial architecture and it's a remarkable piece of work - original and model! Kit PW 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tricky Posted September 24, 2021 Author Share Posted September 24, 2021 1 hour ago, kitpw said: You've got the boarded shuttering for the concrete spot on (and the corrugated sheeting too). Quite an early date for in-situ mass concrete construction: is it still in existence? Not everyone's cup-of-tea but I have a liking for C20th industrial architecture and it's a remarkable piece of work - original and model! Kit PW It is still there, just. No corrugated exists any more but the concrete I think is fairly bomb proof! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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