David Bigcheeseplant

A test piece to see how laser cut knapped flint and brick looked, I may experiment to see how best to paint it but each flint is .75mm

I have just picked up on this thread, fantastic work.

Just one thing I have picked up on is that the GWR type 5 signal boxes were generally built entirly in blue brick rather than red brick on your model. I had a look at colour photos of Tavistock and yes the box is in blue brick.

David

After two years of not having a physical show, we are planning Railex 2022. Due to the unavalible of our traditional dates in May we have moved to June 25th & 26th. for Railex 2023 we wil be back to May.

Railex 2022

Stoke Mandeville Stadium

Stadiun Approch

Aylesbury

Bucks

HP22 9PP

Saturday 10.00-5.30

Sunday 10.00-5.00

Confirmed layouts and traders will be added in due course.

As someone who has had three jabs and pretty fit running most days I got struck with Covid last Wednesday and for the last four days have been completly knocked me out and even moving from the bedroom to the bathroom has been an effort. Hopefully I am on the mend now but the last few days have not been good. I was in the camp that expected if I got it because of the jabs and my fitness it would be very mild symptoms how wrong I was. 

David

Some more images in black & white, I have added some fences and walls,  I have tried to work out from maps and old photographs to see what they looked like and where they went. 

Just now, Nearholmer said:

Interface the model to the right VR software, and you probably could.

 

"Fly throughs" and "walk throughs" are quite common ways for achitects/designers to allow clients/users to test the layouts and looks of complex buildings these days. And, they use the same base files to feed into the printing of 3D physical models if those  are needed.

 

 

There is an animation section on Fusion so I may give it a go.

Nearly there just a few more details to add, I have even popped the correct Flint cottage image in the background, and too give it a period look have given it a black and white filter. I feel its quite an attractive station and one of those lost GWR terminus stations, although to be correct it was only a Wycombe railway station although it was run by the GWR from the start. 

6 minutes ago, Islesy said:

How do Dave, thanks for your feedback here - this is one of the issues central to my EP feedback, there is some degree of adjustment needed with planking which will be in place by the arrival of the decoration samples.

I think there was one the prototype that had doors made up of 3 full width planks and this was copied by Lima the remaining ones seemed to have doors made up of a half plank two full planks and one half plank.

I need to check but I think the planking on the doors looks wrong it should have a half plank at the hinge end.

A more work it is amazing what you can do in Fusion 360 this is the free version, even importing colours such as GWR stone paint. The great thing about designing in 3D is that it makes it much easier to see how parts fit together. 

IKB did visit as there are letters by him as he surveyed the line, but I doubt an Iron Duke got there, I think mostly it was 4-4-0 bogie class or the Sun class.

13 hours ago, RedgateModels said:

 

 

Next Question, assuming it was a through station where did the line(s) go westwards? - all the buildings around look very old

It was a terminus from 1854 till 1862 when the line was extended to Thame in 1862 the line bypassed the old station so for two years until a replacement station was built all trains had to reverse in and out of the station.

The first map shows the proposed extension to Thame and the second an extract from the 1:500 1875 when that shows the old station as a goods shed and a replacement station on the site of the current station.

A bit more work on the 3D model I have now got all the flint panels in and am now starting work on other details like downpipes and gutters. Once I am happy with the finished model I will start to create the DXF files to export to the laser cutter.

David

I wonder how traditional platforms are constructed.  I guess the walls are constructed of brick stone but what supports the top surface is the level built up with earth to support slabs etc.

David

A bit more working up the 3D model, seems to come to like when I add texture renders. 

Some more progress on the 3D model, plus some photos of the building as is is now or before restoration started. Its quite hard in some cases to figure out exactly how it looked like 167 years ago when first built. 

It was only a station for 10 years before being replaced by a new station and then used as good shed.  The design was repeated at Thame ten years later in 1862.

After years if not decades of waiting and plenty of false starts model the original High Wycombe broad gauge station in 1854-62 I have now made progress in drawing the model up in Fusion 360 this will then be used to produce drawing for the laser cutter to produce parts. A couple of days and I have got the attached done plenty more do but at least its looking like it should, I hope  to get as much detail in as posible and all brick and flintwork work will be correct as well as all the trusses.

David

I was wondering what station had the shortest working life, I was thinking one which had station buildings and was not a temporary one plus had to have been included in a timetable.   

Is the mysterious Jago our new Kenton?

I have only just found this www.utube.com/c/JagoHazzard just five minutes per episode on a subject mostly the tube with history by (Jago Hazzard whoever he is as you never see him) in a very distinctive style but quite amusing.

David

Yes the autocoach was used to serve the low level platforms, a number of times the steps were left out and were damaged when they hit the normal platform at Risborough a chair was kept on board just in case this happened so passengers could still alight.

I went to this show for the first time yesterday, and it was my first show since covid. I took a mask but didn’t wear it in the end as the vast amount of people were not either. Plus the hall had high ceilings so probably more airflow than a small room. I went to see Johnny Marr a week ago where no one wore masks and it was shoulder to shoulder packed and zero social distancing. But you did have to show proof of two jabs to get in.

As for the show probably too many box shifters and very little finescale for me but it seemed busy on the Sunday and heard it was busy on Saturday too. The layout of the show seemed strange with having to go through lots of trade before getting to any layouts. I prefer to have headline layouts as you enter the hall which gives you a wow factor of what the show is about. 

Strange to be back at a show and see friends etc, a lot of layouts did not have any lighting and lacked and presentation so were lost in the hall. 

The balconies I nearly missed and would have been better signposted and laid out.

I popped down to see it at Risborough on Saturday, saw my uncle on it who was the guard on the last passenger train in 1957.

When open the Watlington Branch was never operated with autotrains the loco ran round at each end as the locos were not auto fitted using 2021, 57xx or 74xx locos. Also the coach is facing the wrong way from when it did when the line was open, as the driving end of the coach faced Watlington.  

As with anything you want to sell it is probably best to do something you need yourself rather than looking for something to make money on, I have designed a few parts and then 3D printed them as there was nothing I could get from anywhere else, people then started to ask if they could buy what I produced, so started an after market selling parts. That was last year while I was on furlough now being back at work it is hard to get it all fitted in.  I enjoy the design side but the admin, printing, cleaning up and posting the parts out is not enjoyable for me. 

Another thing is the quality of what you are selling, many 3D prints are rough or the parts could have been better produced in another medium. Add in time for research, the time it takes to design what you are doing and the logistics or making any kind of money disappear. 

David