The Great Bear Posted May 31, 2018 Author Share Posted May 31, 2018 (edited) Gosh, you've been very productive! Having just read through the thread on the toplights I'm full of admiration for the way you've mastered and refined the technical issues as you went along. And what a variety of diagrams. Nice work. Think I'll just plough on with the couple of kits I've got in hand, while awaiting the promised Slaters renaissance! Would love to see more pics of Marlingford & Begbrooke in due course. John C. You are making some nice progress, I see what you mean about the 3d hubs ones, that's quite a nice finish. Fingers crossed we see some from Slaters, as with those costs I'm thinking we won't see much uptake! Thanks, both. It will be interesting to see what the selling price of the re-introduced Slaters ones are, the unavailable ones on Mr Dunn's site are £45 and some ebay prices have been silly. I am guessing some increase, around the £55-60 mark? That being said, the bogies in the Slaters kit are said to be rather fiddly to build so on top of that maybe another £10 outlay. I would also be interested to see how the finish and details compare with the resin prints I have got done; I suspect the resin prints are as good as/near enough to the Slaters ones based on photos I've seen. The next step up, if you have the skill - I don't, is the gold standard of the David Geen kits, £95 or more if one wants better roof. There are question marks over the future availability of these, the business being sold. Putting the cost aside, the beauty of the 3d printing approach is that an unlimited array of diagrams can be produced eg the 70 footers or brake composites or slips or indeed non-corridor stock. Also it would be pretty easy for panelled stock to delete panels here and there or the toplights to represent stock in its later life. It's just the design time to do it and - as it stands - me having the need for such stock. (Edit - and a drawing or photos to work off: enough to at least be able to make reasonable guesses as to dimensions, anyway!) The Slaters range I think only covered panelled diagrams so the steel bodied multibar ones plus the more eccentric diagrams as above might be an opening for a cottage industry, if it can be done for something more reasonable in cost and reliable supply. I am thinking about this but no promises! Happy to receive peoples' thoughts on this. Jon Edited May 31, 2018 by The Great Bear 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post The Great Bear Posted May 31, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted May 31, 2018 (edited) So here are a couple of the Toplights in action:) Edited June 1, 2018 by The Great Bear 23 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium M.I.B Posted June 1, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 1, 2018 Brilliant photos and great work on the Toplights. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post The Great Bear Posted June 2, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 2, 2018 With the layout in a state of being able to run trains rather than covered in junk, here's another one. A 28xx heads south with a class H freight. I've been thinking about changing the station name for a while. I like the alliteration in this one and it is the first name for what eventually ended up being named Kidlington. The weathering of the 28xx didn't go completely according to plan but rescued it I think. All the best Jon 25 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold checkrail Posted June 2, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 2, 2018 Great loco & train, great bridge & signals - splendid stuff. Good to see views of your layout agaIn. Like new name too. John C. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold sjrixon Posted June 2, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 2, 2018 Love the 28xx always fancied one, but a little big for my layout. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Mawer Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 Jon the Cordon 3D printed wagon had 4 coats of paint with a rub down between each coat and the bubbles still showed through. I will be heavily weathering it to hide the finish. WP_20150903_11_47_03_Pro.jpg Mine was the same. In the end I smeared miliput over the tanks and then rubbed down. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Mawer Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 Jon I love the layout. Track, ballast, scenery all very good and evocative. Can I ask a few questions about your grass banks. Is that hanging basket liner? Did you tease it out and glue the fibres down? Or did you lay the liner as a sheet? If its teased out fibres glued down, whats underneath it? How did you colour the liner/fibres? Paint or fabric dye? Rich Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Great Bear Posted June 3, 2018 Author Share Posted June 3, 2018 Jon I love the layout. Track, ballast, scenery all very good and evocative. Can I ask a few questions about your grass banks. Is that hanging basket liner? Did you tease it out and glue the fibres down? Or did you lay the liner as a sheet? If its teased out fibres glued down, whats underneath it? How did you colour the liner/fibres? Paint or fabric dye? Rich No problem, Rich. Yes it is hanging basket liner. It was just placed on slopes and then given several goings over with a comb and beard trimmer. The bits of it are still all over the place and are resisting the Dyson - be warned! Most of it was bought years ago now, blimey 5 if not more, and needed no colouring. The last lot I bought of the same brand, Guardsman rings a bell, was a lot paler in colour, not very green so I resorted to painting it, dying it, whatever. See http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/26456-marlingford-begbrooke-southbound-freight-and-a-new-name/?p=2158644 and the following few posts. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post The Great Bear Posted June 22, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 22, 2018 Another train with a couple of my Toplights in it: Need to disguise / improve on the blu tack base for the telegraph pole and top up some of the ballast, All the best Jon 22 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post The Great Bear Posted June 22, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 22, 2018 Few more of the same train: 25 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Great Bear Posted July 17, 2018 Author Share Posted July 17, 2018 My latest coach builds. A C32 "Multibar" Toplight 3rd and a D45 "Bars I" Toplight Brake 3rd (I am a bit confused with the diagrams of some of the coaches based on Russell, especially those that were used for Ambulance trains.) My painting and lining is still not great but slowly improving with practise. The C32 was done by 3d hubs as before, the D45 was a sample I got done by Photocentric a UK manufacturer of printers to see what their HR2 printer could produce. 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Great Bear Posted July 17, 2018 Author Share Posted July 17, 2018 Here's the D45 coach as above in an up stopping train, hauled by a Dukedog: 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium OnTheBranchline Posted July 20, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 20, 2018 I want to live in this world. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamespetts Posted November 6, 2018 Share Posted November 6, 2018 (edited) [Mistakenly posted in wrong thread, cannot delete] Edited November 6, 2018 by jamespetts Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Great Bear Posted June 23, 2019 Author Share Posted June 23, 2019 Back in the autumn, as detailed in my 3d printing topic, I bought my own resin 3d printer. I'm finally getting around to finishing the models I've made with it. Most of the below are some of the earlier prints I did with it. D56 Brake Third: This was one of the fist prints I did with the machine whilst testing out resins, it's not perfect, nor is my finishing either! D52 Brake Third: E98 Composite: C25 Non-Corridor Third: This is one of the most recent prints. This diagram being a clerestory body but with an arced roof. My intent is to put this coach in to a rake to add to the Hornby non-corridor ones. There are some niggles with the above in addition to my painting and lining, the fit of the underframe to the body. I've a large backlog of other efforst to finish. Nonetheless I ought to tidy the layout and run some trains... All the best Jon 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Great Bear Posted August 4, 2019 Author Share Posted August 4, 2019 A couple more recently finished home printed coaches. Both are brake composites, filling a gap in the RTR provision. Whilst my painting and lining is very slowly improving its doesn't bear close scrutiny An E83, originally a tri-composite brake compo and a E94: A couple of other coaches are neary there - infuriating how taking a picture shows problems! There are also a couple of other brake compos in the pile of semi-finished models. All the best Jon 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Brinkly Posted August 4, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 4, 2019 Lovely work Jon, very nice. Regards, Nick. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Great Bear Posted August 9, 2019 Author Share Posted August 9, 2019 A couple more, further variety not catered for by RTR A K22 full brake With all the toplights the body proved a bit vulnerable with my rough handling, one crack being pretty obvious still A way down the to-do list is to add grills to the luggage doors of this and the other brakes. My first go at a clerestory, a C23 non-corridor all third. The commode handles were a different design I got printed due to issues with Shapeways checkiung and are noticeably more chunky. I've since managed to tweak the original design to get past their checking again. I also had a go at showing some of the panelling being boarded over. Just need to weather this now to show a coach on its last legs. It should nicely break up the Hornby suburban set creating a 5 coach set. All the best Jon 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denbridge Posted August 9, 2019 Share Posted August 9, 2019 Have you had any further thoughts of making these available? You certainly seem to have got over many of the hurdles. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Great Bear Posted August 9, 2019 Author Share Posted August 9, 2019 47 minutes ago, Denbridge said: Have you had any further thoughts of making these available? You certainly seem to have got over many of the hurdles. The printer broke, PSU went bang, in April and I haven't got around to fixing it yet So I need to get over that hurdle first. Also actually building some has shown some minor tweaks to the designs needed but achievable. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules Posted August 9, 2019 Share Posted August 9, 2019 I like K22 the full brake - I could do with one of those! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Great Bear Posted April 3, 2020 Author Share Posted April 3, 2020 A few more home made coaches. An E73: An E82: An E85: My goal for the coming weekend is to clear all the junk resting on the layout and get these in a train. Might as well do something productive whilst under house arrest! 12 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 Nice looking coaches, they deserve to be in a train! 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Great Bear Posted April 5, 2020 Author Share Posted April 5, 2020 After a long gap, a train... Not what you were expecting?! Probably the only time a photo of a diesel will appear here. Well, unless I succomb to a Dapol railcar In hindsight I should have got something more appropriate ie western, a Warship maybe. But, whereas before the 56xx I used to shove the CMX around really struggled the 37 shifts it no problem. Running this around has revealed a few niggles in the up fiddle yard, which I had forgotten about whilst doing my coach building. 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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