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This is looking cracking Neil nice work sir

Thank you both @Bucoopsand @doilumi will check out ABC motors and gearboxes also! And Premier seem the definite way to go in terms of coupling rods much appreciated guys, I have quite a bit of motors and gearbox research to do this weekend now :) As for the rear pony truck I’m already on the narrowing of the back of the chassis! I noticed this would be an issue when negotiating curves so figured it will have to narrow to allow the back pony truck axle to slide! Much like I built when I made my GNR 8 wheeler brakevan on sliding axles. Thank you Rob

Thanks John some good points! one of the reasons I wasn’t keen to buy an existing chassis is that I currently don’t have the skills to build one in metal. I have been told it’s quite tricky getting the chassis true/square in general so figured it may just be easier to print this? however you do make a solid argument, and looking at your link it’s not a great deal extra money wise, considering I need to buy coupling rods As for motors and gearboxes I’m completely in the dark here, so previous folks experience and advice is invaluable. I appreciate the advice will check out both Roxey and Slaters sets thank you thanks for your advice and help Rob

Thanks Doilum, some great info there! How you finding printing the chassis for the loco? Its working well? Do you end weighting the locomotive? But thank you for the information much appreciated

More 7mm Wagon builds this time GCR fish van, i need to make some custom decals for the Fish Van text, and get the amazing mr corbs to print them! Secondly 4 wheel Billinton Brake, built this for a chap at the club who is kindly helping me with some couplings for my GER 4 wheel coaches! this is only the test print to see f it goes together, have almost finished printing out the 2nd one for him, and i may do a 6 wheeler Billinton or a Stroudley to compliment it on the layout, undecided yet. Both need roofs fixing as i need to weight them both, and weathering still. Extra decals required I need to find some 7mm guard transfers for the Billinton doors, and Fish Van for the GCR truck, if anyone knows who does them? If not i may draw my own along with some additional LBSC components like the illiterate symbol, and Ballast truck and brake text!

Hello folks So im guessing I'm possibly going to open up a can of worms here, and ask a bunch of dumb questions so I would like to apologise in advance if you folks get this a lot, but I would greatly appreciate any help you can give me. So i'm looking for some advice on how to go about building a chassis and adding a motor, wheels and coupling rods for this L77/N7 I have porotype 3d printed. Originally I was thinking of using a Dapol Jinty Chassis, and fabricating a small pony truck at the back! @thegreenhowards Idea which is a sound idea and worked extremely well beforehand when we used the Dapol Terrier chassis for S56/J69. However I have since printed out the body for the N7 loco, and I have found the motor on the jinty sits far to forward, resulting in having to cut a section out of the boiler up to the first boiler band in order for the motor to fit properly, which in my opinion would spoil the look of the locomotive! So I am thinking Rob, why don't you just see if you can build/3d print a chassis for this loco instead, it be worth trying out, seeing if i can get it to work! I know I can source the wheels from Slaters I will need 3 pairs of 4'10 wheels, and a pair of 3'9 wheels for the trailing set at the back, this is as much as I know that I need so far! Not great I know ;) So my questions are: What motor should I go for, a biggie I know, but I haven't a clue about this, and where to start? Where is the best place to get coupling rods for the N7, I believe Premier Components do a set? Does anyone know the standard width for a 7mm chassis out of interest for when I start to build this in 3D? The hole diameter for the axles according to slaters is 4.763mm so making this slightly larger say 5mm would hopefully allow the axles/wheels to run fairly smooth? I could also create some wheel spacers to be set inside the chassis to add further support! Do I need to add weight to the chassis, and if so how much is recommended and what to use? Have I forgotten anything or over looked something glaringly obvious? And is there any previous threads or videos that I can take a gander at that help with a lot of these questions? Many thanks folks in advance an apologies for the Noob question on this but any advice is greatly appreciated here First test/prototype print below, still some cleaning up to do and there are some issues I need to fix, a bit of warping which just needs some supporting columns inside to fix this issue, and some strange chamfering off in the corner that was the result of an unsupported area I believe. All other details have been printed out separately for attaching later Cheers Rob CAD Model below

Errrr no its 3d printed still :)

A pair of LBSCR single bolsters in 7mm, not yet finished need to do some weathering to finish these off properly!

Excited to see how your saddle tanks turn out Steve

Cheers me too Andy, for your later version i need to do an alternative roof without the arch, and a slightly amended westinghouse pump that sits further forward on the boiler. Technically the dome is a little further forward as well if i remember rightly but i will see how noticeable that looks.

Lets see how she prints Finally starting the L77 project in 7mm

Yes you are probably right Andy maybe Brass be better, but i might have a go at seeing if i can do it ;)

Since getting back from my short break in sunny Budapest im now finishing the CAD files for these GCR implement wagon, and twin implement wagon, im still wondering whether to model the chains holding the boiler down on the twin implement wagon or not! GCR 20ton Implement Wagon and Twin Implement wagons with Boiler load

Thanks for posting I agree I think for 4mm this program would work okish but for the larger scales the detail isn’t there! I need to look at make human not had a chance to yet! It’s getting the attire/clothes for the characters I want which is the issue! Sadly they don’t really cater for the Victorian/Edwardian period! :(

Hey Simon it be lovely to see some of your finished printed work on this thread that you have been referring to? cheers Rob

Thought I would post some of my Ally Pally pictures from Saturdays trip! I have to say a huge thank you to the BRM guys you folks put on a cracking exhibition, I honestly came away super inspired by the fantastic array of layouts there. Obviously my all time favourite being Norwich Central and the first time I got to see it in the flesh, what a stunning layout, Peter and his team have made something quite magical, the stock was inspiring and such a beautiful combination of liveries with the GER and M&GN complimenting each other. Copper Wort as well beautifully conceived and built, filled with frame after frame of cameo's and interesting little scenes to keep the visual interest! Plus the standard of model building was stunning, along with the very lovely Plumpton Green just to mention a few of the fantastic layouts. Thank you to all the exhibitors and folks behind the scenes putting this together I was truly inspired by my visit and now thinking I would like to start planning my own exhibition layout for some time in the future! just a few of my personal favs from the day

Verts are around 70k, I just knocked this one up playing around with the background I have noticed that gradients seem to work a little better, and finding the best contrast for the background to the figure. For instance if the figure is darker at top make the gradient lighter, at the top, and bit darker at the bottom! Still not bang on, the right hand on this little chap is a bit dodge but i can perhaps rub that down a bit we shall see or continue to try and buff out in zbrush!

Haha me too chap, exactly what I am after Victorian and Edwardian figures so happy to let you have any figures that come out good sir? Perhaps we could set up some kind of figure dump for folks who don't mind sharing their meshes for others to potentially use :)

First attempt, with image straight from google Image from google Then I thought what if i change the background colour a bit, and levels in photoshop to see if i can get a better result! Image after slight manipulation darking levels and adding a darker background to help push the contrast between the figure and the background hoping to get a better read for the model Slightly more detail comes through now around the hands as you can see, but still missing some geometry which is annoying so I thought I would try a bit more image editing to see if it helped. I put in a slight gradient in the background, and coloured the sleeves to help make them more readable i hope? image amended slightly And then finally we are getting more detail to the figure I think i might keep this one, see if I can clean her up slightly in Zbrush and have a go at printing her at 7mm

Haha not wrong Andy I think i may need to start 3d printing more of me!! Speaking of which I been finishing off this little 3plk with a spot of weathering

Ohhh this is exciting, i need to get looking at this pronto then as I would be keen to print some Edwardian figures in 7mm for the club layout

Hi Stephen Thanks some good points, I will look to get some kind of visual catalogue together, however as I'm currently going through my 3d model wagons, and i am adding more detail to get them up to a higher level of detail, especially for 7mm. So I wouldn't expect all of of them to be available very soon, plus I know Gary has a hell of lot of stuff he has already in the pipeline, and I imagine he will have to test print them all first, which is a huge undertaking bless! But I will try and work up what I have, and get it working all in 4mm, and then later on all being well 7mm eventually through Gary. As for making STL files available I'm probably going to see how this goes firstly. NBR carriages are definitely something I want to model up, they are very beautiful carriages, but I need to finish the GER N7, and then the 7mm GER/LBSC coaching stock, along with updating, adding and detailing of the LSWR 6 wheel stock I which I promised to do as an experiment with Bill of LSWR association, after which im hoping to tackle the LNWR stock, plus potentially work on a J65 to sit on my newly acquired 7mm Dapol Terrier chassis! Oh and after visiting Ally Pally on saturday chatting with those lovely folks on Norwich Central I feel really inspired to start planning and potentially building an exhibition layout! But perhaps this is a tad ambitious! Cheers Rob

A pair of LBSC Diagram1368 5 plank wagons finished in 7mm ready for the club layout. Though looking at this I need to finish painting the strapping inside! These will have loads! CAD below for comparison! I have painted the iron work black on these even though they where the last round ended opens built for the LBSC, but for some reason they are shown in this livery in the southern wagons railway volume 2 so figured they looked pretty good and I would go with that :) The wagon in the background is a my next project a GCR Fish van, and I hope to be adding to the GCR stock soon with some extra stuff.

These models look fantastic

Thanks Schooner for the kind words. I hope so really looking forward to finally getting some of this stuff out there if not all of it one day :)