Dazzler Fan

Not the best kind of data for working on.

I was given to understand that *.STL files are accepted by Shapeways from

packages like Google's Sketch-Up.

Ian, would you be willing to post a tutorial using say readily available Sketch-Up

to produce the J-hanger spring?

Ian,

Can the items be scaled to 4mm?

Are *.stl files available for any of the items?

Noel

Thank you Ian - I am not a CAD person. I already downloaded SketchUp and even with

the very good tutorial videos, it will take time getting into it before I can produce anything

that satisfies. With the add on for exporting STL file formats, this will be a very powerful tool

for the scratch modeller.

With examples such as yours, I would strongly recommend the set up to others.

What 3D software package do you use?

I read somewhere that the CAD software gives options for thickness to print.

Waht 3-D drafting software do you use?

Ian, can you give some sample costings?

There are several methods, and some are more expensive

than others with powder etc..

I bet Max Williams at Lawrence Hill had something like that in stock.

His was a most fantastic Model Shop for the scratch builder, right next

to the railway bridge on Stapelton Road.

Very nice, would love to look throgh the library you found.

I never could understand the point of moulding the chassis structure underneath .........

............. because the protoype has the same configuration of support members.

There is a similar tool for cutting strips of Formica for edgings, and that has two opposing

wheels of the type used in glass cutters.

I have been researching and collecting for a number of years to build Box in 4mm, built the

station building. I did a photo reconisence in the late 1980's, when several of the buildings

on the northside, and the coal office on the south were still in use. I was interested in the

culvert and cattle tunnel, because the view was to be from the North, with Box Hill rising in

the background.

I see a video on Youtube - of an HST125 cab view from Box to Bath that the scene has finally

overgrown with dense woods down to the track bed.

I was drawn as a convenient run to model between Middlehill Tunnel and the A4 road bridge.

However, Cosham looks like a better option with the background rising steeply away from the

trackside: interesting to see the coal siding served by Kilmersdon and Camerton Collieries.

Very nice model.

It is said that the sheet rail was popular with other railway companies,

and many of these were held captive by them. Apparently, the design

was not repeated because of lessons from the attrition.

Regards