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This is really interesting... I've been thinking along similar lines, as the recent work I've seen on the Bambu looks really good. I don't really enjoy mucking out resin vats either! And... this weekend my LCD screen failed on my anycubic M3 plus. I have since discovered it's considered a consumable item! With that in mind, testing prints on a FDM printer makes a lot of sense. I'm going to on ponder this for a while before I rush to replace my dead screen. If I invested in a FDM for testing, I could even potentially outsource the final prints.

I've uploaded the chassis files that I used to cults3d. They're a freebie if anyone wants to play around with them or just take a look. https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/tt120-scale-chassis-files-for-class-313-emu

The full work, as it were, is massive. Still nothing on what it was in the 50's. I dont think there's any way I could do it all in my loft... I've been offered a garage by my brother. I'm not sure how serious he was! Don't know what's up with my messages, but it would explain why I've never received any. I'll have another look. Edit=> still no idea why you can't send me a message but I have discovered that I don't know how to send them either.

I have started whiteboxing some rough building shapes over the map, and added my 313 and 55 models for fun too. I've cut the size of the depot a bit, but it's still far too big for my loft. Hard choices ahead... for now I will work on the station and neighbouring garage as a minimum! The garage is basically still there, kind of. I believe that the Hornsey Historical society have a photo of it from the eighties.

Thanks - yeah, it was wonderful to finally see it going. Especially with the Deltic still up on blocks. It's given me a real boost

Thanks. I'm going for a 1980's blue and grey... I've got 3 sets of usable bodies so I'm intending to paint up a couple of non-runners too.

Ha ha, I think I'm good for another hour before I have to get food on the table!!

I got the DM running today. Not a very exciting video! You can skim forward to see it running at different speeds. It's been running for a couple of hours now on printed drive shafts... I was hoping to get the carriage chassis going too but somehow the latest version of my bogies have 0.5mm less clearance!? I don't know how I ****** that one up, but they are painted now so will whittle them down rather than reprint.

Hmm... it's at this point you begin to wonder if 2mm wouldn'thave been a better idea. The green lines are meters, I clearly need to nudge some buildings and maybe lose a couple of sidings. There's a tower block, Dylan Thomas House, off the top of this image that I want to bring in... maybe I can reduce the size of the steel yard - (which is still visible on Google Street View if you travel right to the end of Hampden Road!)

Well, they're quite a bit more than a landranger... £22 for the paper copies, £12 for digital, plus £18 royalties per map to the OS, so I'll have to sell a few models to cover them! I could try and access them through other archives, but I'm a sucker for a nice map. York is also a bit far for a day trip for me, I think I'd struggle to get that one wife approved 🤔

Sadly not... I've just spent all my money on maps, so it would be too dangerous 😂

I had an appointment at the Haringey archives last week and found some nice photos of the area... and a lovely 1:1250 map surveyed in 1981. It looks like the scottish national library have the neighbouring grids from 79 to 81. Now I think I'm going to blow this months budget on maps... I don't think I can reproduce any of this online, but here's a little bit of the 1981 map!

I remember seeing rows of them when I was working up at Anfield. Not that we don't have a few in North London, but the impact of seeing a whole road boarded up has stayed with me. I was just checking out the metalwork on that spitfire. That's incredible stuff... I don't think the T7000 would be a substitute for fine etched parts, I was going to use it mostly for holding the chassis parts/weights together.

Maybe, it smells like a contact glue - but it's black. Has a bit of flex to it.

It was partly inspired by the metal panels they bolt onto derelict buildings. I don't know if it has cured the windows. These are better than my earlier prints... but they were also a different resin. It looks like a black rubber cement, but smells like an impact adhesive. Might have to be careful bonding some plastics like styreen or hips. Also quite a long curing time. I used clips to hold everything together... ...but it can hold glass screens onto metal/plastic phoned so I think it would be good for a range of non-porous materials. £4 for two tubes on amazon!