The Great Bear

I used a combination of Modelu stools and piano wire and Brassmasters bits for the cranks and compensators. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/26456-marlingford-langford-lane-more-toplights-in-action/?p=2202883 http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/26456-marlingford-langford-lane-more-toplights-in-action/?p=2560784

That does look very good in termsn of detail, the corners on the base cubes also look nice and crisp. Pity the build volume is too small for my needs.

Thanks - yes, the images of 3930 I've used as best I can work out for the compartments. Plus some pictures of a David Geen kit in an MRJ. But not found anythign really showing the luggage sections.

Hello Can anyone post or point me in the direction of pictures showing details of the the vestibule and where applicable guards and luggage compartments. In particular it's the wood paneling detail in the vestibule and on the doors as will be seen reasonably clearly through the corridor windows. I think it is was horizontal boarding alongside the compartments and vertical boarding at the WC end. The detail both sides of the luggage compartment and doors to it I can't find any details of so I've guessed. (My reason for enquiry is over past few months I have been drawing up and getting 3d printed a variety of coaches http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/130385-3d-printed-gwr-coaches-getting-to-grips-with-fusion-360/page-7&do=findComment&comment=3249949 but so far in my designs the vestibule walls have been plain and I was thinking the paneling detail might just be visible, worrth adding - the Geen masterpieces have it I believe.Not that my stuff approaches them I hasten to add.) Here's what I am currently assuming, interiior wallas for an E95 Thanks Jon

I doubt it. He's a politician and an ambitious and scheming one (somewhere he was described as making Francis Urquhart look like Eddie the Eagle), this kind of thing plays well to party members.

iMaterialise and Sculpteo in Eurpoe, at least and I think US. I haven't explored what's available in the marketplace on either. iMaterialise you have to make a design before selling and prices don't include sales tax until checkout Sculpteo shipping signifcantly more than Shapeways both offer SLS nylon aka Shapeways WSF or whatever it is now Neither do something like Shapeways FUD, iMateriliase do a resin with a better finish but very picky and conservative design requirements I've used Sculpteo a fair bit, they give you the option for delayed production at a discount, but their shipping costs are 3x Shapeways.

Some back of the fag pocket costs: Typical length of bridge over hs2 - say 60m Width between parapets no cycling faciltites - 7.3m carriageway + 2 x 2m verges = 11.3m Deck area - 678m2 Bridge works cost - say £2700/m2 Cost = £1.83m Width between paraperts with cycling facilities = 2m verge + 7.3m carriageway + 1.5m separation to cycletrack + 3.5m combined cycletrack/footpath + 0.5m allowance for edge shyness = 14.8m So extra width = 3.5m Extra bridge cost = £0.567m Now that's just the cost of the physical works. To get a total budget cost say multiply by 2 (it can be more, probably is on hs2!) so thats £1.13m for the bridge alone. Add in a bit for the extra earthworks and bits and bobs either side so you're looking at £1.2m extra per bridge crossing or thereaouts. Now on a project this size even with well over 100 bridges I'd guess arguably that's not significant but neither would I say it's "minimal". I

Could you care to explain, please? Having spent he last 2 years working on a £500m plus road scheme with a BCR betweeen 3 and 4 that comes as a surprise.

Sublime modelling, Mikkel...

Second the above! The video with all its different view points along the layout also shows how well you've integrated it into the rolling model landscape and backscene with a bit of depth, due to the 2mm scale. The lane (?) and hedges behind the station at the join is neat

John Now I have had chance to look at your toplight pictures on the pc, blimey your painting is very very neat, the droplights and bollections look perfect. If only I could print remotely neatly as that! I'd love to see what you could do with one of my nascent coach kits, my painting and liing rather lets them down. I'd also say that even with the glitch in the GWR transfers being oversized I'd say your Toplights look better than the adjacent Hornby Collet. Fab. All the best Jon

Thank you. I've just had a play with Shapeways for a D56 brake third using that approach. Interesting... First, whole body and roof done in Smooth Fine Detail Plastic A whopping £91.85! Now, using your approach... Sides and ends in Smooth Fine Detail Plastic £30.62 (which bizarely is cheaper than the White Natural Versitile Plastic at £39.02) Roof in White Natural Versitile Plastic £12.65 So £43.62, less than half the price of doing whole thing in Smooth Fine Detail Plastic (FUD was a lot quicker to write!) So for doing stuff in Shapeways this seems a neat approach. I had shyed away from printing with shapeways for the recent coaches because the light sanding needed even with the Smooth Fine Detail Plastic was a pain with a paneled coach. For the smooth sided Multibar Toplights this isn't an issue of course. Just need to crack a more efficient way of doing the underframe and interior if doing via Shapeways... Once again thanks Jon .

Very, very nice, John. Your painting is really neat. I may try your trick with masking tape for whatever next coach I try - though using HMRS pressifx transfers my issue is getting them straight! All the best Jon

On and off over the last few months I've been getting to grips with Autodesk Fusion 360. Very different from Autocad that I'm used to, but I'm slowly getting the hang of it... My plan is to use this software for coach designs moving forward, well, fingers crossed... I also got another test print, this time only part of a coach, from the Photocentric printer mentioned above, this time at 50 micron layer and in a hard resin. The grooves on the door ventilators have come out on this print but that apart the finish isn't discenably better than the 100 micron print. The edges of the panelling are still a bit "soft". If I'd seent this print back in January or even compared with the Shapeways FUD I think I'd be convinced, but not after seeing what can be done after getting the 3d hubs print. So more thinking...

I've used Sculpteo a fair bit. One thing to note is their shipping cost is a lot more than Shapeways £11 or so. Otherwise no discernible difference in service than Shapeways really

Very nice, especially the one looking down the station access road.

Not tried that option. I wonder how it compares to the HP Jet Fusion, that's done on slightly bigger layers 80 micron I think. As you say, Sculpteo are a lot more affordable for the HP material, little more than their normal SLS nylon service I think. The HP material has benefit of slightly thinner wall thickness requirements I think.

How true, not forgetting a Saint, arguably one of the most seminal of all loco classes, for which there isn't even the Airfix/Mainline models only a lame adaption of the Triang Hall.

Here's the D45 coach as above in an up stopping train, hauled by a Dukedog:

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.

Here's the completed D45: Once again the basic model rather let down by my finishing, in particular applying the lining transfers (HMRS Pressfix) - in particular on the paneled coaches where it runs along the ribs Practise makes perfect I suppose but any tips gratefully received... The commode grab handles in brass by Shapeways look good on the coach I think.

My latest experiment, door T-handles in brass, again by Shapeways. They had to be rather oversized to get them to print so I am not sure how they'll look on a coach. (I know 247 Developments do turned brass handles so may try those too.) Not the easiest things to get a clear photograph!

When I had a power cab before upgrading I used a different power supply, from Maplin I think, to deliver a bit more voltage.

Not sure if this is the kind of thing you have in mind?

Oh yes. I was referring to coming off the Midland Mainline platforms. Going the other way I use the lift, cuts some of the mall, that's what I do, anyway; I'm a lazy so and so so wouldn't walk further than necessary!