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The border between the blue and the yellow is rather wobbly.

It doesn't look good here: I've never seen one actually look like that in the flesh though.

Simon is active on here, so I suspect he'll be along. He has a very extensive catalogue. My nervousness has always been that because of the sheer breadth of his catalogue he hasn't ever tested most prints. Consider them 'scratch aids' rather than proper kits and you'll be ok I'd suggest. He is looking at ways to make the files available for home printing.

Another failing of water washable resin. If you use acetone or IPA it'll evaporate, and is much easier to dispose. The best you can hope for with water is that the resin settles and cures. Definitely don't go putting it down the drain. I'd ditch the water washable resin too frankly!

I’m actually just embarking on a layout of a heavily compressed Shugborough in N, and with 9x3 it’s going to have heavily compromised train lengths! Crewlisle springs to mind as a compressed WCML layout in a similar sort of space.

The part numbers are clearly printed on the plan, not sure any exceptional traits are needed!

Can you not buy direct from the retailers though? Obviously doesn’t work with stuff like Rails’s second hand listings, but retailers like KJB or Cheltenham you don’t have to use eBay. Obviously if the prices are the same then it makes no real difference though.

MFA/MEAs are 2-axle, those are MBA ‘monster box’ wagons.

Stroll raced nearly 2 weeks after breaking his wrist and having it pinned. Ricciardo has broken a metacarpal, which is an entirely different injury, simply in the same area. First race 2 days after the injury, second race next week, so it’s not really comparable. He’ll be acutely aware of the pressure he’s under, so i imagine he’ll be keen to race next week. Let’s hope for some rain today to try and spice it up. Particularly as Max was whinging about the car being a handful in the wet.

I actually went out for a ride today! Still on for the fewest miles since I started cycling in 2000, by some margin! It poured with rain, then I got a puncture. Wasn’t on the bike for rain either, brakes were atrocious. Was jolly good fun though.

This thread is getting more and more confusing. Shapeways limits are generally far lower than home printers will achieve - wall thickness, wires, overhangs, but you’re at the mercy of the person designing (or supporting) the file. But again, without clarity on what you’re talking about it’s impossible to answer properly. Is this for BRM? Or to make your designs suitable for home printing? Or just a conceptual discussion? Are we talking skills gaps or physical gaps in designs?! You’ve made designs for Shapeways, if you make them available for download then people will obviously be dealing with them on their own printer. Is that your concern? Because people will just have a ‘blank’ STL and it’ll be on them to orientate and support? How do you think this will be handled if you sell CDs of your designs as you previously proposed? Or is that the point?

What do you mean? An example would be good. “Home printing” is a broad church, are you thinking of FDM or resin printing?

But what’s it an analogy for? The internet doesn’t meaningfully change (in this context) at any real interval. Stuff was ‘where you found’ it yesterday. Or are you saying that every time you log on you have to search for ‘model railway forums’ in order to find RMWeb, because it’s not where you left it…? 🤨

Thanks Mike, a white one may mitigate some of the cement staining at least! Until I started researching them I thought they were far more recent builds. I was really surprised they go back nearly 40 years. They’re quite a modern design to my eye!

Thought I ought blow the cobwebs off this thread. Been going through scaling a number of my wagons up to OO gauge. I’m not a OO modeller, but I do like the extra ‘heft’ (and I may have an Accurascale 92, shhh!), not for this thread though! I’ve always liked the PCA-STS tankers, now wearing Castle Cement livery. Although Realtrack have done them in N I just couldn’t bring myself to spend that much on a decent rake. The CAD took an age to get right, they’re a complex shape with all the compound curves at the ends particularly. They’re not perfect, but I’m happy they’re close enough. Getting the ladders to print consistently was tough too, here at (IIRC) 0.25mm. If they survive removal from the printer they’re ok! I could etch them, but that’s just a whole new technique to learn, and I’d prefer not to outsource it! A bit of work on the decals still needed, the handbrake wheels need separating, and I could do with a lighter grey colour, but nearly there!

If you need help with things like decorative wagon wheels Grahame feel free to drop me a PM - trivial to 3D print things like that, and I’d be happy to help out! Having only been a user of London Bridge since 2011 I had no idea Guildable Manor Street (what a name) was formerly a shopping street, fascinating!

But it’s only as good as the items that are on it. You want a site for O gauge STLs of things you want? This is like saying Amazon doesn’t work because I have to search, we need an e-commerce platform which exclusively contains books written about GWR branch lines in 1928. When the model railway site is flooded with thousands of items you still need to know exactly what to look for, and yes, different terms will yield different results. Search for things. Google is extremely capable. You’ll find fewer items designed specifically for O because they’re physically much larger, and that just doesn’t lend itself to 3D printing in the same way. You can resize anything in your slicing software. Yes you may need to do some legwork. You can resize any STL. In O your problem will be coarse design and unnecessarily thick walls from taking smaller items. For me knowing how to use the printer was a prerequisite to buying one. It seems more and more people are doing the opposite these days.

I don’t know what you’re wanting to print, so “useful” is subjective. searching “N Scale” yields 2400+ results. My point is that the answer is not to create a niche site used by a tiny number of people when large global platforms exist. Yeggi is a notionally a search engine of other sites, but I don’t know which ones. If you want to realise even 10% of the value of a printer learn to design.

You’ve just described Cults3D (among others). People upload STLs, they can set a price (or not), people can download them. Job jobbed. There are plenty of places to share designs, I don’t get why people are getting interested in Shapeways doing it, they’re just reinventing the wheel a bit. If Simon thinks his designs are worth thousands just chuck them on Cults3D and see if people buy them. It’s probably me being too capitalist, but I’m not sharing my designs for any amount, as you simply cant control what happens to them.

Sounds like not much freight, as that can still use the tunnel. A frustration for travellers no doubt, but heading over the Gotthard Pass is certainly a detour I’d accept!

And that’s fine, but as we discussed previously I think your valuations are gross overestimations. What does ‘ownership ’ of the designs mean in this context? Given you’re saying people can do with them as they please? I design stuff because I want the items generally. I don’t want to do it commercially. I have covered my equipment/material costs with what I’ve sold, but I would never want to do it for a job, I actually hate the stress of having an order to get ready! I don’t price my time (because it’s a hobby, and I enjoy it), so the price I sell things for is basically covering my costs and a bit. I wouldn’t want to give away my STLs; nor would I want to sell them for most of my models because I’ve worked hard on them, and value them still.

That type of suspension design is called a unified rear triangle, or URT. It’s a very basic single pivot design, but it means the distance between the saddle and pedals will change constantly with natural pedalling, so you’re fighting a losing battle with knee soreness I suspect. As said you can’t retrofit discs there, those are just mudguard attachment points. 20 years ago there were adapters you could add on to provide a disc mount, but I’d avoid them (if they still even exist given the ubiquity of discs now). With the best will in the world I’d put any money you were considering spending on that into a new bike.

Just what I was coming to say. I can only assume it’s easier to get a production slot when the artwork is all done, it makes no sense otherwise to re-run five liveries when there are 20+ we’ve not seen.

What the hell happened to the Williams?! Albon was on a charge, up to 11th when everyone in front was yet to pit. There was talk of 6th place being up for grabs, and then he finished 14th(?). Decent race though. Aside from MV winning.

Damn! I’d have gone and seen that had I known, was out too!