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First attempt at painting some london bricks for these arched retaining walls, feel they need to be browner, so working on a 2nd attempt.

While im doing some painting tests to try an achieve a good look for those arched retaining walls, I have been working on knocking up a LBSCR Signal box in 7mm for our club layout and just liked the look of this lovely signal box at Crawley. We may not end up going with this box, but i'm going to print it and paint it for fun regardless. I still have some detailing inside to do before printing but here is what i have so far

Hello Linny that is indeed a good thought, I was thinking of glueing and filling every other brick, but I maybe able to stagger the bond as you suggested, helping to hide the joint more, especially as i intend to use fine filler for the mortar joints on these all being well

Working on some London Brick retaining walls for the clubs new O gauge layout, printed these test prints up to try and get a distinct Victorian vibe, and to do some test painting on achieving that yellowy brown brick look, these are just primed at present, hope to publish my test results as I go

Absolutely stunning work Andy cracking job sir! I told you the GNR livery was definitely the way forward, and now you have mastered it, perhaps a C1 next in GNR or and N2? Not sure about being a 3d printing whizz, but I will certainly do my best to create those lovely Howlden 6 wheeler Carriages to go behind this beautiful C12 of yours! Can't wait to see, hopefully you will bring it along tomorrow night Rob

Hello Ray Thanks sir. Yes im hoping the clean up will work, if not sadly they may stay until I have replaced the screen! But if not Deluxe perfect putty sounds perfect i might get some for my models! As for the louvres I was super happy with them so far as its the straightest i have achieved at that scale, I would have to thicken them up quite a bit I imagine to give them more strength at this scale. I would like to print an Incline Brake at 7mm with some added details including the interesting handrails Cheers Rob

Doing some test prints of the SECR Stock, a few issues, mostly I think my screen needs cleaning as im getting a few lines in the final prints, but none the less once painted and transfers have been added I can ship these off to my Dad to run behind his C Class, as I think he was a bit to late to snag one of Dapols/Rails lovely D classes Anyway hopefully more to come soon, all in 4mm without transfers, NEM pockets yet either

Hello chap Like you I was well into my FDM printing, and still do so with mostly environment/architectural elements as you can get some great results, but have been resin printing for a year now, and completely hooked by the shear difference in detail and quality you can achieve with the media. Modelling anything from drawings and photographs does take its time to get something solid, but If there is anything in particular you are looking for wagon wise? Only thinking if there is enough demand to make it worth while I would definitely consider modelling some wagons and then selling an STL to those who wanted it? Cheers Rob

Printed off this little SER Brake Van in 4mm from my wagon collection, need to add the Decals to finish it off, and a spot of weathering, but reasonably happy with the result

I can tell Jason your building stuff is looking fantastic chap, really coming on, and true the buildings give you more freedom, i find the rolling stock is far stricter, and less forgiving from folks

Looking back through this thread I only posted a few pictures of the model village I built from these 3d printed buildings so thought I would add a few more as I was going through them today

Hi Stephen Thanks for sending over that link to Mousa Models, some excellent wagons, and very nicely finished, and while Bill as you say at Mousa Models does this for a business, and the prices certainly reflect this and quite rightly so they are very nice. I'm not a business and have modelled this stuff up during lockdown, happy to sell a few prints to anyone who might like some, really only to help fund the hobby which it really won't especially as the cost of printers whilst coming down are still expensive, I have just ordered a new Phrozen 8K which when it ships finally later this year should probably cost around 1500-2k but the possibilities it throws up are fantastic, and put 7mm rolling stock on the cards. I have modelled this stuff mostly for my father to have something to pull at 4mm, and then for the ESMRC and their exciting new 7mm layout currently in production, based on a fictitious LBSCR and GNR Terminus set in London which i have posted a link to below For the most part a lot of this stuff can be hard to get hold of, or expensive especially at 7mm, so I figured I would build/print what I can on my current printers, and plan for newer printers coming along. As I really enjoy the modelling aspect and the creating side more than I do the running of trains, but one day my ambition would be to build an entire layout modelled completely from models I have built myself. That is way off in the future right now, so in the meantime just happy to crack on modelling, but I'm always happy to get folks feedback and thoughts, as it really helps and pushes me to make better models as i progress through this process

Hi Ray If completely honest i love working on the buildings more, mostly because I get to add an element of design to them, with the railway wagons, and carriages I have been modelling this stuff has to be spot on, but i first started in 3d printing with buildings, building up the scenery for my dads MR, whilst off topic in this thread it was great fun to make, and it was using FDM printing far less accurate than the new resin printers, but painted up doesn't look to bad, although slightly overscaled stone work As for the wagons Ray yes I am up and printing again finally, so just email me any you would like and I will get cracking sir

Morning Stephen Thank you for sharing this is perfect and I can now see exactly what you are referring to, and looking at my models they don't have that small chamfer as you pointed out, however at 4mm would it read? At 7mm it would be more obvious, and something i can certainly apply, I currently have a 30 degree taper on my planks which help push the planking definition along the wagon fascia. But it is something that can be applied, and something I feel the 7mm wagons may well benefit from this detail Cheers Rob

I'm using the Anycubic series of Mono screen printers both the Mono and Mono X which have a pretty good resolution of 2K and 4K as Quarryscapes points out its very much a testing process to see what works! Foe example It took me several test prints to get the feel for the brickwork on some of the model buildings I made on this earlier thread The brickwork and stonework on these models is clearly exaggerated along with the mortar gaps to help with the printing process, admittedly this is FDM printing not resin, which can provide a better resolution and detail, but once painted a reasonable result can hopefully be achieved. Cheers Rob

Hello Ray Hope you are all good sir? So to answer that question roughly about 20 have been test printed, and I have made many mistakes along the way, however im pretty confident they will all print well, and during the rest of this year I will printing and posting the progress, and painting them all up, a lot of them in 7mm for the club all being well, especially the GN, and LBSCR wagons, but the rest will get printed mostly on request and for my fathers model railway who is always complaining he has very little to pull behind his pre-grouping locomotives!

Hello Compound Im always happy to get feedback chap, especially as I have seen your thread on wagons and its very good chap. However im not entirely sure where you are referring to exactly on these wagons, apologies for that. I have made the gaps slightly wider than in reality, this is just to help with the definition during the printing process, its a personal choice, some think its perhaps a wee bit wide for their liking, however printing out in 4mm I have been very happy with the results, especially for painting, and weathering these wagons it certainly helps. All the planks have a very fine chamfer that is hard to read on these images, but softens the actual print i find, and doesn't give hard edges. Though it will depend on the printer, and its resolution.

Theres a surprise Andy I have some more planned for row 4 along with a row of GCR and L&YR next as a heads up

And just for kicks I figured I would take stock of all my Wagon modelling during the lockdown period!

a few more wagons to add to the stock LBSCR 7plk LSWR 20T Brake 1545 LSWR 18T Brake 1542 LSWR Med Cattle Wagon 1508 LSWR Large Cattle Wagon 1502

Adding some more LSWR wagons to the inventory LSWR 1409 Covered goods LSWR 1401 Ventilated covered goods LSWR 1462 8 Ton Refrigerator Van LSWR 1483 8 ton Meat Van

Building more stock in the form of some LSWR Open wagons 4 plank SR 1309 10 ton 5 Plank SR 1310 10 ton 4 Plank Open for stone traffic SR version, need to find the differences for the LSWR version 8 Plank SR 1316 12/15Ton Open goods

Very true! I was printing in my garage all summer last year, the weather changed and every print failed because the resin viscosity changed as you say! However my pal prints inside his kitchen! And he has solid results every time so he claims! So maintaining a steady temperature environment is crucial to printing!

You just can't beat resin printing chap, these parts look great, especially the wheel and chair as you say! I do wonder why it is that sometimes you can have a successful print, and then use exactly the same settings and the print isn't as good as the last, with exactly the same resin! 3D printing Mysteries! Great work, looking forward to seeing this painted up, are you going to put a small LED light inside the signal to illuminate all your great work?

Love the arm chair Jason cracking stuff sir