chuffinghell

Much better, have you given any thoughts about scenery? As this may have an effect on your track plan. Its difficult to tell from a track plan but do you have enough room from the edge of the board to the track

HAPPY NEW YEAR to all

Have you finished your Aero wagon yet? I’ve already finished mine 🤪

@Bluemonkey presents.... and @MrWolf flattery will get you nowhere 🤪 but it’s appreciated 👍

You certainly put me to shame, I don’t think I’m moved my ar** off the sofa since Christmas Eve

I have neither so both don’t run at all 🤪 I’ll also get my coat

“Too many kits” is like “too many Panniers” not possible! 🤣

Keith 3D printing is 50% knowledge, 30% luck, 20% dark magic and 20% maths Chris

Someone is going to be a busy boy in the new year 😉

Not a bad idea This particular wagon would be out of place on my layout though, it’s was drawn/designed for someone else modelling a later time period than myself These were introduced towards the end of the thirties to transport crated aircraft propellers so not really suited to an early-mid 1930’s layout……unfortunately

With the standard Anycubic water wash resin I print at 2 seconds/layer at 0.03mm layer height (or 2.5s @ 0.05mm) 30 second base layers So 8 seconds seems like a massive increase but then exposure times are based on the printer as well as the resin As far as plate adhesion I think it’s just the exposure of the base layers need reducing quite a bit I have a Elegoo Saturn 8K but will be going back to Anycubic as soon as I can because I really dislike the two point levelling on Elegoo printers* *although the Saturn 3 ultra has the proper four point levelling and also looks cool in black

I can see this topic ending in tiers Last ‘dad joke’ of the year, promise!………….Well this year at least

I wanted a little flexibility but not this much Not exactly what you want in a wagon chassis I’m probably doing something wrong

Something that was said to me when I first started was “less is more” Although of late I’ve taken that too literally and have done as little as possible 🤪

Sunlu appear to do a water washable version but I don’t really want to waste another £27 on something that might not work and be stuck with a litre of resin I can’t do anything with

Honestly I’d not thought about that! I’ve since bought another bottle of the standard water washable stuff but I do have a little left so I will mix that with the cr@p stuff at the ratio suggested and see what happens (he who dares wins Rodney) I only use the water washable stuff now as previously once I ran out of isopropyl I couldn’t do anything until I got some more…..its much more convenient having water ‘on tap’ as it were 😂 Rubbery is definitely how I’d describe it although sh*t is also an acceptable description. I thought it was due to it being the water washable type though

You’re far too kind ☺️ but thank you Looking good so far, excited to see these finished

This is not a complaint, more of an observation to help others who are considering trying the same product For a while now I’ve used Anycubic Water Wash Resin for my prints and I’ve had great results, my concern was that the prints were too brittle So when I saw Anycubic now do an ABS-like water wash resin I thought I would give it a try While it is true that parts are no long brittle the problem is that they are now far too flexible even after curing This was after curing for twice as long as I would with the standard water wash resin Also after curing and left overnight Left (standard water wash) Right (ABS-like water wash) Other issues The parts were very difficult to remove from the build plate so much so I sliced my thumb on the scraper I also found that fine details are less sharp I don’t think this has been miss-sold, I think I may have misinterpreted “tough and durable” Perhaps it’s more suited to solid models or large parts with much thicker walls? Just my opinion but I’ll be sticking with the standard Anycubic water wash resin for now

I hope you mean idiotic comments and not just idiots in general because I don’t want to be blocked 🤪

‘blush’ I’ll do you a sketch tomorrow that you can send to @railtec-models so Steve knows what dimensions he can work with in

Thanks for the mention Matt

Wishing you too a Happy Christmas Chris (AKA reformed Grinch)

guilty as charged your honour But instead of converting a RTR chassis I designed and printed my own