frogster

Over a Week late I have finally got the prototype print completed, it worked out great except for the fact that i realised that my hole in floor was off centre. I was going to upload some photos but they were too large, they will come later.

Interesting suggestions, I'm new to this sort of project, but i did have the roof attached but after some research and understanding of the 3d printer I will be using a decided to remove the roof since it wouldn't be able to be supported well enough during printing, and with the interior the only thing I know about is the general size of the boiler, I have no idea what else was inside the loco. I have also assembled the body as such because the floor wouldn't be thick enough without the lower chassis mounting area because i wanted to hide the motor as much as possible which meant using a specific chassis that would mess with the floor if there was any separate sections between the two. But thanks rue_d_etropal for the ideas, I will take them into account if I make a model of different loco. If anyone has any information concerning the interior of the prototype that would be greatly appreciated

Thanks for the information so far, I have just made major changes to the design within the last few hours and have opted to instead of designing my own chassis for the locomotive i would use a bullant gozunder unit with a small machima 1020 motor hidden inside the boiler, but due to this i have had to make the boiler slightly over size (added about a mm all round) to fit the motor), at the moment it will have a 15:1 gearing ratio but i hope to improve that with some tricky gearing hidden in the part of the boiler that sticks out under the body. The chimney will be made from 4/16" brass tube, which can also hide the extra little shaft from the motor where you would normally fit a flywheel. I hope to print off a test print by Monday.

I recently was given a box of model railway magazines, whist reading a the august 2004 of railway modeller I came across an article on an Atkinson-Walker Geared steam locomotive which sparked my interest, it seemed to be a fairly unique locomotive, it also featured a model version created by the author Neil Burgess made of brass and technical drawings. As i am currently building a small industrial layout and thought that this locomotive would be an ingesting locomotive to run on the layout, so I started making one to be 3D printed in 4mm scale. . I would be greatly appreciated if anyone might have some information on the locomotive or more pictures of it since information on the locomotive is limited.

I have recently begun building a prototype open source DCC controller unit that could be sold to model railway fans around the world. I am beginning this blog to update those interested and gain feedback and see what the community would want in an open source DCC controller unit or if it even wants one. If you are interested in this project please leave a comment bellow with any features you would be interested in seeing on the unit.

hey you should check this out, im planning on using this system with electro magnets