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After many hours of printing finally got something out I can work with, this print did warp a bit in a few places, which is an issue with abs,  had to print the roof 3 times, but finally got there! It is the biggest building by far I have attempted to print, and a good test for my next venture making some WW2 Buildings for Bolt action wargamming for a friend of mine who wants to recreate Saint Mere Eglise, the church alone at 28mm figure scale will be nearly 2ft! Anyway hope you folks are staying safe in all this craziness, a good opportunity to  get some modeling done in this lockdown :)088C0E93-7F80-4964-BD9B-BADD59720FC0.jpeg.0661da30e3c40c1c291277a5f462299e.jpegAC06B832-FF1F-4D29-972E-482AEE819CDC.jpeg.c3b7d7ac2564f8840f20e5af722747c5.jpeg44AD3D7E-4909-4AAD-9F19-BB0380848959.jpeg.f11bc621989504b1628fd73a4fc19be3.jpeg

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Finished the church scene for the corner of my dads model railway! Although I have to admit some of the printed headstones are a bit big! And im finding the lack of variation for characters in OO a bit limiting hence these folks are HO scale! May have to start printing my own! BE9941E5-56A1-4003-8ECB-BBDD6CC0149F.jpeg.db99a8f666886ff115bf8e94ce1374ef.jpeg48F705D5-5A98-4080-81DC-9230D58241F1.jpeg.8428cccc34da3cbfc56ddccc4e5a83c4.jpeg244498C2-4871-4F9E-97F5-1F92EEB9A276.jpeg.67eda61d6352bdf0f43515e8667c1c37.jpegF2224A7A-C082-44C1-9A22-FD3DDF80AE8C.jpeg.b8c47a2515eb7f8039b6cc502d7340fd.jpeg

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That looks great! 

 

Re headstones,  I've done a whole heap using a free photogrammetry programme.. You just need to spend  few hours in  a cemetery with a camera, which I guess might be a problem there right now.

 

I got carried away and now have  dozens of the  bu99ers! Might need to model Rookwood Cemetery sometime..

 

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14 hours ago, monkeysarefun said:

That looks great! 

 

Re headstones,  I've done a whole heap using a free photogrammetry programme.. You just need to spend  few hours in  a cemetery with a camera, which I guess might be a problem there right now.

 

I got carried away and now have  dozens of the  bu99ers! Might need to model Rookwood Cemetery sometime..

 

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These look great dude, are they resin printed? 

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On 08/05/2020 at 18:33, monkeysarefun said:

That looks great! 

 

Re headstones,  I've done a whole heap using a free photogrammetry programme.. You just need to spend  few hours in  a cemetery with a camera, which I guess might be a problem there right now.

 

I got carried away and now have  dozens of the  bu99ers! Might need to model Rookwood Cemetery sometime..

 

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Must be a rich church. Look at the size of them. They look great.

You could have more, the simple poor ones and in the corner the little pauper grave with just a number on a small stone. 
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31 minutes ago, richard i said:

 

You could have more, the simple poor ones and in the corner the little pauper grave with just a number on a small stone. 
 

 

I am not sure of the case in municipal cemeteries, but in a churchyard it would be most unlikely that a pauper's grave had any marker at all.

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On 08/05/2020 at 19:50, woko said:

Finished the church scene for the corner of my dads model railway! Although I have to admit some of the printed headstones are a bit big! And im finding the lack of variation for characters in OO a bit limiting hence these folks are HO scale! May have to start printing my own! 

 

That is rather beautiful! Nicely done. 

 

How are you printing these such that you don't get any obvious layer lines? 

 

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17 hours ago, richard i said:

Must be a rich church. Look at the size of them. They look great.

 

 

On 09/05/2020 at 04:20, woko said:

Although I have to admit some of the printed headstones are a bit big!

 

I was surprised how tall some headstones can be. Here we obviously have pretty well no existing  headstones prior to 1800 and many up until the mid 1800's were carved from the local sandstone which can often be very crumbly and flaky, so not many have survived. Consequently   most of our early surviving headstones date from the  Victorian era, carved from better quality sandstone or  more suitable materials such as granite or marble and  can be very ostentatious.

 

Like I said, I spent some time in some of our larger cemeteries, in particular Rookwood here in Sydney ,  photographing suitable headstones, statues, monuments and so on and was surprised to find many of the headstones were close to 6 feet tall, and  5 feet seemed to be a common size for the 'standard' pointed top ones.  Printing them out for 4mm/ft scale they looked unrealistically large when placed beside some model folk. 

 

Got to admit it got a bit addictive photographing, processing and printing all these headstones and statues, sufficiently so that for a little while I was seriously considering a model of Rookwood Necropolis - after all it did have 5 stations inside it so it could be a viable model railway, albiet one with very limited operational variety, but the original station building with its repetitive gothic detailing would make a great 3D modelling subject!

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16 hours ago, monkeysarefun said:

 

 

I was surprised how tall some headstones can be. Here we obviously have pretty well no existing  headstones prior to 1800 and many up until the mid 1800's were carved from the local sandstone which can often be very crumbly and flaky, so not many have survived. Consequently   most of our early surviving headstones date from the  Victorian era, carved from better quality sandstone or  more suitable materials such as granite or marble and  can be very ostentatious.

 

Like I said, I spent some time in some of our larger cemeteries, in particular Rookwood here in Sydney ,  photographing suitable headstones, statues, monuments and so on and was surprised to find many of the headstones were close to 6 feet tall, and  5 feet seemed to be a common size for the 'standard' pointed top ones.  Printing them out for 4mm/ft scale they looked unrealistically large when placed beside some model folk. 

 

Got to admit it got a bit addictive photographing, processing and printing all these headstones and statues, sufficiently so that for a little while I was seriously considering a model of Rookwood Necropolis - after all it did have 5 stations inside it so it could be a viable model railway, albiet one with very limited operational variety, but the original station building with its repetitive gothic detailing would make a great 3D modelling subject!

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That isn't at all ostentatious is it now:huh::rolleyes:, that would be a great subject for a model, I assume the mourners travelled by train as well so you could have more than just a hearse train.

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On 08/05/2020 at 23:33, monkeysarefun said:

That looks great! 

 

Re headstones,  I've done a whole heap using a free photogrammetry programme.. You just need to spend  few hours in  a cemetery with a camera, which I guess might be a problem there right now.

 

 

 

 

Hi :) 

 

Do you mind me asking which photogrammetry program you used please?

 

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Good morning Graham, I use 3D Zephyr.  They have  free version, as well as a licensed  lite and a pro. The free has a couple of limitations, the main practical ones being a maximum of 50 photos can be used per project and it doesn't output to .stl natively.

 

In reality these aren't serious  limitations, the only time I've needed more than 50 photos the subject could be broken up into two sections, upper and lower, and the .obj format that the programme does export can be imported into other packages such as meshmixer and exported as a.stl.

 

I did actually buy a license for the lite version thinking I'd need it but I have never installed it due to the free being good enough for my needs, but I have made enough use out of it that I felt the developer deserved to make some cash off of me!

 

https://www.3dflow.net/3df-zephyr-free/

 

There are some videos on their website to show the basics and once you get the parameters right its simply a matter of working through the steps under the workflow menu to complete  the process -  for what it can do its very easy to use.

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15 hours ago, monkeysarefun said:

Good morning Graham, I use 3D Zephyr.  They have  free version, as well as a licensed  lite and a pro. The free has a couple of limitations, the main practical ones being a maximum of 50 photos can be used per project and it doesn't output to .stl natively.

 

In reality these aren't serious  limitations, the only time I've needed more than 50 photos the subject could be broken up into two sections, upper and lower, and the .obj format that the programme does export can be imported into other packages such as meshmixer and exported as a.stl.

 

I did actually buy a license for the lite version thinking I'd need it but I have never installed it due to the free being good enough for my needs, but I have made enough use out of it that I felt the developer deserved to make some cash off of me!

 

https://www.3dflow.net/3df-zephyr-free/

 

There are some videos on their website to show the basics and once you get the parameters right its simply a matter of working through the steps under the workflow menu to complete  the process -  for what it can do its very easy to use.

many thanks.. I'll start playing :)

 

Graham

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I popped along to my local model railway club tonight to talk about joining them, a lovely bunch of folks at the East Surrey Model Railway club, which has inspired me to post my latest bit of printing, although not strictly model railways, its been a test build for some bolt action wargaming in 1/56th scale. So here is my Cafe J Philippe Epicere in France, building, and telegraph pole, plus walls and cobbles all printed. And my first attempt at some autumnal foliage! 93D33398-044F-44C9-8339-A2D53EA2FE0F.jpeg.d7a5fe1d7cb986e43b651831b8910adf.jpegE400EA30-41F7-4151-95DA-8FE322BDCB3B.jpeg.24722195a01e9599e413ecf4d72802ff.jpegC30E0022-1ED3-4B49-8C4B-6239520AEB0A.jpeg.af5dcfb9bb2b4a346d3c4b3e0b4c75ed.jpeg101760B5-34F6-497C-AAF9-FF144CCEA387.jpeg.36ba730aa64101dcc02d54fa383c8e76.jpegA601061F-59DF-40E4-879E-F2AD22F21075.jpeg.194bdc40b0239ed6d8de327ea2ad4df9.jpeg

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12 hours ago, teiger said:

Hi!

Could someone please point me to a tutorial, how-to and/or You-Tube video of how to make stone textured walls suitable for 3D-printing for OO scale.

TIA Steven.

 

 

 

 

Not sure there are any specific ones for 3d printing but lots of Z Brush tuts to make stone! What software are you using? 

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Actually its been a while since I have done any printed buildings or scenery, which I have missed doing if honest, but a few months back I got the chance to print some brick bridge abutments for the ESMRC and try to perfect my brick painting technique, whilst not perfect, im fairly happy with the progress since printing and building the Dairy! 

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52 minutes ago, njee20 said:

Stunning work here, really impressive! I may need to buy an FDM printer for buildings!

Ta dude, yeah the FDM printers still have there uses, mostly the larger build beds! You can’t achieve the crispness of a resin printer, but i think for stone, and brick stuff its ok! Im hoping Prusa bring out their XL this year, so i can do 7mm scale buildings. 

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33 minutes ago, njee20 said:

might be... :blush: number 6 if I get a larger resin printer too. 
 

The material cost of FDM is interesting though - higher than resin. 

Depends what you buy, i tend to go for the Sunlu ABS or PLA which is less than 20 quid for a 1kg reel on amazon!

 

which larger resin printer you thinking of going for? 

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