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Your assertion that mitres cannot be cut with the likes of Trotec lasers is tecnically not accurate, it is possible to laser cut at an angle if the laser cutter has the added hardware uually used for working on cylindrical objects, however I am only aware of one company currently using such techniques and they don't use it for mitres but instead use it for adding brick detailing, that would be intentio model railroads https://www.intentio.shop/index.php?route=common/home

Agreed, but at least their newest trains have some style to them, the WAB ones in recent years look like the bodywork was done to the cheapest budget possible

It shouldn't be difficult to get someone to custom print some decals. the text was not white which is I'm not sure however I think I recall that the BOB letters on the sides of some of those Brown and Cream locos were raised silver rather than painted cream or brown.

Sleeper trains from SNCF certainly went to Interlaken Ost from Calais, I know as I used them many times, eventually (certainly after Eurostar) the French trains stopped going to the Bernese Oberland they may have stopped sooner than that I cannot remember exactly when, there was a route after that went from Oostende to Milan but the trains never got to Interlaken heading south at Spiez

I would not be so sure about that these two were built in 1910, the red one runs regularly in the summer and certainly the green one was still running all year round in 2019 doing excellent work at Lauterbrunnen, over 100 years old and still climbing mountains for a living

I would say that the old one has stood the test of time very well, after all the real one has certainly had its paintwork freshened up over the last 30 years, I've been studying the station in Wengen for the purpose of building as accurate a model as I can, the original station there went from 1893 until 1908, but the replacement despite being repeatedly modified and upgraded since then is still recogniseable, despite many alterations, extensions and repaints as the building form 1908, mind you the hill next to the station has lost something like 15 feet off it's top in the last 125 years

Regarding cutting metals, the latest 20W (optical output) diode heads are capable of cutting very thin steels and stainless steels circa 0.005 inch (0.125 mm) maybe a fraction thicker but they won't cut brass or aluminium (or copper) because those metals are too efficient at conducting heat away from the area the laser is hitting

It has to be said, this is a really impressive bit of work

It occurs because the data about which way up the phone was is stored in the picture, in an image editing package even a free one like GIMP when you save the jpeg there is usually an option to uncheck that says save EXIF data the option may be hidden under advanced options or a siomilar phrase but thats how to do it

The foam is likely XPS (extruded) polystyrene, I'd not seen green before but you can find it in Blue, Pink and more recently Grey versions, the different colours being from different producers, the Blue was Dow (or DuPont) Styrofoam and is now aparently Grey marketed as Ravatherm XPS in the UK unfortunately in the UK they tend to want you to buy minimum order quantities, the Pink foam is from Owens Corning, you can often purchase small quantities at excessive prices on Amazon David

Is that supposed to be the Eiger, Monch and Jungfrau in the background ?

Interesting, perhaps the operators in the box found the worst weather always came from that direction or maybe they enjoyed a bit of fresh air on the porch without getting wet, if it was not fitted to other boxes it then suggests there was a particular reason for having it on this box

Well I imagine that those with a toilet at the top of the steps welcomed a porch up there as well for the days there was a downpour, the toilet was as I understand typically a late addition to the box which explains the various different designs added to otherwise similar boxes, in the same way that the signal men added a bit of comfort inside the boxes it is I suppose entirely possible that some paid/persuaded the person adding the toilet structure to put a little porch on

Very odd but I suppose the controller could have failed first and caused the motor to die

Very nice, however in the interest of accuracy what you actually produced was not a mold but a Jig, Jigs are used in engineering where repeatability is important to ensure that parts can be put together quickly and accurately. I think your idea of putting the clay on the pillar before applying the texture won't work, at least it won't if you are using air dried clay, the clay shrinks as it dries and if you have wrapped it around a wooden core then as it shrinks it's going to split, you might try using epoxy putty (e.g milliput) instead og clay, this doesn't shrink so you could wrap it around the core, if you do use milliput then you are likely to find the roller sticks to it, you may be able to prevent this by applying the roller under a gentle flow of water from the tap. David

Possible electrical supply fault burning out both motor and decodet ?

The Fordhampton playground is actually the Faller Playground (180576) and so will be H0 as are many of the Fordhampton kits, that said they are sometimes cheaper than the identical Faller kits and kids playgrounds often vary in size so this might be perfectly fine

Interesting, my own plans involve a rough recreation of Wengen (WAB) though I plan to do a meter Gauge version mainly because trying to get rack rail onto that is slightly easier at 12mm compared to 9mm gauge, I can get very accurately laser cut version of the Lamella/Von Roll rack and plan to create a hybrid rack/adhesion system, adding rack to the rails is likely to add £10 per linear meter of rail so where the rails will go below the scenery to a hidden fiddle yard I will drop the gradient and run adhesion, on the rack I hope to be able to get close to the prototype which is roughly 1:5 the old track actually managed 1:4 in places Lamella rack should make it a little easier to recreate the points Rack rail points are another odity, there seem to be quite a variety of designs the WAB itself has two very different designs one type are basically very similar to regular points with just a short section of moving rack rail , the others have far more moving parts, but are more likely to be scalable to a model railway setting

All of the above, however if you have had a bad print fail let the contents of the tank settle over night then do a clean, all the bits will then end up embeded in the single sheet of resin at the bottom of the tank, if the FEP is correctly tensioned its not too difficult to remove the waste if you are careful

repetative prints are i guess more likely to wear out the screen faster, I only clean the tank when I drain it but because I don't use it all the time I guess I end up leaning it the equivalent of once every 5 or so days

Out of curiosity is that little cafe by the station any good ?

I've always called these toolmakers clamps, I even made one 30 odd years ago doing a BTEC NC in Mech Eng, they are actually very effective, most of the time though you set the front screw to more or less the correct jaw width and use the rear screw to apply pressure to the jaw tips, I believe woodworkers have a similar but larger device, you can buy toolmakers clamps off amazon or flea bay, they come in a variety of sizes so if looking to hold something small don't buy the largest ones, With access to a lathe, vice, hacksaw and a drill press plus some suitably sized taps and dies almost anyone could make one in a couple of hours or less, as I recall we finished them including oil bluing in less than two 2 hour lessons and that included delays because of having to share the marking out table and drill press, strangely everyone had their own lathe LOL

Now that is uncommon, don't think I have ever seen 31 in on platform 1 at Wengen before looks like it bought something up on the flatbed maybe Sklp 851 or just possibly 852 If this was taken on the first of July I might suspect it was involved in the delivery of the Wengen Pump Track

Many stations if they still exist have had alterations applied to them over the years, many of which require planning permission, so if you like a particular station you have seen it's worth finding out which council planning office covers it and seeing if they have submitted any plans in the last 10 - 20 years, it varies by council but many will allow you to download all the planning doccuments which often include an accurate architects survey before any work takes place

Must admit I've never seen Aberdeen Bond before, it's very distinctive and you have capture the look very nicely