TangoOscarMike

Impressive!

I've been generating coal "procedurally" for 3D printed locomotives, using OpenSCAD. Each piece of coal is the intersection of two polyhedra, pseudo-randomly scaled and oriented. The pieces of coal are placed on a grid (on a pre-defined surface), with random displacements from their orderly grid locations. It's not a reliable process - I must generate the coal multiple times until I have a result that is free of too-regular looking features.

I wonder if I can use your approach for coal.

On 06/06/2021 at 23:19, pH said:

I remember building a 1/72 version of that almost 60 years ago - not to that standard, though!

Me too! Well, more like 45 years. I suppose it was the Airfix kit

12 hours ago, MikeOxon said:

At first viewing, I hadn't appreciated the man carved from a soid bar.  An amazing piece of workI 

While all our minds are boggling, I need to add something to this.

Many years ago I made a wooden castle for my daughter. And (since all Britains knights are in hacking-each-other-up poses) I sculpted a 54mm prince and princess out of polymer clay, and cast them in metal.

I had the luxury of working the an armature, and since I was using polymer clay I could add and remove material as much as necessary, only stopping when I could no longer make improvements.

And I reckon my 54mm faces are about as good as snitzls 20mm faces.

I enjoyed the forum post - thanks for all these construction details.

Well done! It's all pretty plausible (at least for my tastes).

More importantly, the locomotive looks plausible - something which isn't necessarily the case for real-life Garratts!

Here's a funny thing. I had never used a like button (since I think that social media is the death of the Internet), until I started using it on RMWeb a couple of months ago.

Several times I found myself having nothing to say, but wanting to make some sort of acknowledgement. And I realised that the like button exists (ostensibly, at least) for precisely this purpose. So I started using it. And it is useful (I choose to regard it as useful) that there are different types of like, to express particular types of approval.

In normal speech we make all sorts of brief approving noises, some of which are actual words, when we have nothing to add.....