simonmcp

So is the lovely looking lady on the footplates a representation of yourself?

That appears to be out of stock. Noch do one as well https://www.reynaulds.com/products/Noch/66250.aspx bit dearer though. Perhaps someone does a 3d printed one. Simon

You forgot the best one, your excellent gear. My vote is definitely for the gear, very impressive, especially if you drew it in Tinkercad. Simon

Wow that show's just how small the Pecket is. Simon

I am not sure but wouldn't it be possible to do the 'mortar' as a background and the bricks as the overlay so all it has to calculate is the bricks. In Illustrator you can 'combine' the bricks to cut down the file size. Simon

Does anyone know why the train in the picture has been quite obviously cut and pasted? It appears to be a narrow gauge train (chopper coupling) on Standard gauge track and you can see the "join" especially around the chimney and the man's legs.

I don't know if you have any commercial printers or an Architect's near by but they would likely have at least an A3 (420mm X 297mm) scanner and or could 'stitch' the separate parts of the scan back into one piece for you. Simon

Oh how I miss your humour, usually at Hayle show but sometimes at Bodmin as well, here's to getting back to as normal as it gets in Cornwall soon . Simon

I think even Photoshop 2 had most of those options, if not something like Gimp will do similar.

I remember we had a 3door Range Rover in 'Desert Sand', the interior was all plastic including the seats in a matching sandy colour. Apparently the plastic interior was so you could hose it clean. No power steering either, you needed strong arms back then! Also the back sliding windows were steel and of course being a 70s car they rusted after a couple of years.

They actually never lost or damaged a parcel I sent via them to be fair. Only problem was the driver who came to collect the parcels woke me up at 7.30am once! Simon

Reminds me of a 37 that bent an old Rover Coupé, like the Queen has, so that the headlights and rear lights were almost facing the same way. It had been left across a level crossing at Golant on the Fowey china clay branch in Cornwall whilst it's owner was launching a boat.

I thought, why are you referencing Andy's Photoshop tutorial, I genuinely thought it was a completely prototype picture until I looked back at the previous page of the thread. Absolutely fantastic work on that building - I have been using Photoshop professionally from when it didn't have a version number and I couldn't 'see the join', I salute you sir, excellent work. Simon

I just used newspaper and PVA to 'line' the mould, three layers of newspaper was enough, and it produces very strong but extremely lightweight and slightly flexible rocks. I will be painting on a layer of plaster into the mould first, on the next batch as the PVA/newspaper tended to stick to the mould and I think might damage it if too many copies are made. Also nothing simulates rock better than plaster IMHO. I have no idea how long they took to dry though as they were made for and at a friend's house and we only went into the room once a week by which time they were fully cured. Simon

That is similar to what happened to me back in the 1980s, it was digital artwork not a photograph and not with Getty, but it was cheaper to pay the bill than fight it. Simon

I was a graphic designer and used to design websites. Someone took a logo that I had designed and used it on his website. All it took to stop it being used was a, totally legal in the UK, bill for £1,000.00 per day for the use of my artwork to the website hosting company and it was taken down in minutes. I imagine that would work for STLs as well. The Chinese copying problems even Microsoft can't prevent. You could always do a deal with the Getty foundation, they are very hot on getting royalties. Simon

Looks like the right shape to me, I can see a flat top on them. Superb as ever. More patience and attention to detail than I could manage.

I prefer Fossiking myself as explained here https://www.google.com/search?q=fossicking&oq=fosic&aqs=chrome.4.69i57j0l4.5826j0j7&client=ms-android-motorola-rev2&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8 Simon

I do have experience, about 15 years ago, of someone being sent a £300.00 bill for using a very small Getty picture on their website so I would never chance it. Simon

What may be happening is that the resolution or size of your bricks is out from the resolution of the printer. Essentially if your make of printer has a resolution or step of .2mm then anything that isn't a multiple of this will not print correctly. A crude but hopefully familiar analogy is why you sometimes see strange patterns (moiré) in copied and reprinted photographs from old magazines or a more accurate explanation is that it is like pixels in a bitmap image -you can't have half a pixel. If you can establish the resolution and or layer height of your printer and only use multiples of that, in all directions, then hopefully you should get cleaner results. Unfortunately it may mean that you have to have fewer rows of bricks than the prototype. Some slicer software allows you to see a preview of the layers in close up. Great work on Saltash Bridge by the way. Simon

I sympathize, I am the same, I gave up on a portable workbox and bought an old bureaux which has good solid hinges and support rails that slide out as you open it. Simon

Thanks Neil, I will look into that I may have to treat myself to one. I saw a prototype picture of one in Switzerland on rail.pictures - there are thousands of foreign railway pictures on there, a long time can be had looking at that site. Simon

Apologies for the lateness of the enquiry but could you please let me know what make the blue industrial diesel is? I thought only Marklin made them.

Apparently some people who are allergic or sensitive to CA/ Super glue use ordinary PVA. The technique is to spread a thin layer on both parts where they will be fixed together and allow that to dry until it's tacky and then spread a thin layer on one of the pieces and bring them together and apply pressure/clamp until the glue dries. I think they recommend roughing up the surfaces to be joined before applying the glue. Read about the technique on Gnatterbox the Gn15 forum. Simon

Great to see this thread on here. I have been a friend of Pendon for quite a while now and always enjoyed my visits, which were sadly infrequent because I live in Cornwall. I look forward to the reopening of the museum but in the meantime I will enjoy the website and Pendon Paper. Back in the nineties I had a picture that I took of Pendon as my screensaver at work and was asked by a colleague where was it a picture of? They were convinced it was of a real place.