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Hi Rob,

Lost the internet for ai bit there.

At this stage Adrian on the G1guild is talking about having links to designers pages on their sites instead, but he actually asked me if Sascha would want to post his 2mm files to the G1 site if he did not have them hosted elsewhere. This might be the closest we get to a dedicated site for railway files. Did you think any more about Cults3d?

What Scottish and North of England wagons have you got in mind next? I know Kevin Kight is working on a body only CR cattle wagon to complement his medium and large LNER cattle vans plus his medium FR one. I have the Coates volumes if you need info for LYR wagon stock. Or are you thinking coaches and NPCSS?

Have you an Excel sheet of what you have drawn already? (You could put prices on it) I have a sheet of what I have available to me already and what I intend to try and draw. However if you are drawing or have plans to draw some of the same stock, I would defer to yours as they are likely to be better and pay you for the files and use my time to draw other stuff. Would you be willing to take payment by Paypal?

Just realised the time and I have an early start. Keep in touch and let me know your thoughts about selling files this way.

All the best,

Stephen

Hi Rob,

Apologies for not getting back to you sooner. I have been printing more containers recently. I ran a few of Sacha’s Freundenberg’s latest creations off over the last couple of weeks for some guys on the LNER Info forum, some whom frequent RMWeb too. I have several frustrating print fails too resulting in several large spaghetti like balls of plastic after two hours of wasted printing. I have printed one of Jonny Duffett’s latest creations. His revised LMS weltrol. It came out pretty well. I have not posted pics as he has not uploaded it to his site yet. The latest containers from Sascha were a LNER refrigerated meat container to D25 and we are discussing just how the doors should best be represented on that one. The other was a D18 ventilated meat container. It prints quite nicely but on my machine it keeps curling up slightly at the corners. Must be a temperature difference somewhere inside the enclosure. The raft sticks like glue to the print bed but the print itself curls.

I have also been sent two designs of LNER single bolster and am waiting to find out from the designer if I can share these.

On that note I was emailing the guy runs the G1 fie g

hosting Service about seeing if he could set part of it for sharing prints to other gauges. It would be a free sharing site though.

All the best,

Stephen

Sorry Mark,

This completely slipped my mind. I will try and do it tomorrow morning. I was even spray painting a few of these today and that failed to jog my memory. 

Apologies,

Stephen

Hi Rob,

I’m going through my dad’s NBR journals now and have come across some NBR carriage stock info and drawings. Are you interested in some bogie coaches as well as the 4 and 6 wheelers?

All the best,

Stephen

Hi Rob, 

It might be a couple of weeks before I’m back up with dad but I think he has a book on NBR carriages which may have some drawings. NER ones I’m not so sure about. I’m pretty sure he has something on Caley coaches as well. I do know that he has some of the Decent Models CR Balerno stock and some of their 45’ carriage kits. I should have a couple those as well. I also have a couple of old Roxy mouldings plasticard sides for GSWR non-corridor stock and some old Ks LNWR 6 wheelers. I also have a few Trevor Charlton zinc sides. I think all of the above are all long since out of production. I know Jim Bennie is still selling his Caley coaches but they are bogie post WW1 vehicles. If I scanned some of those long lost etches against a white sheet would that be of any use to you?

Regards,

Stephen

 Hi Rob,

You might regret that offer to help! If I can supply any info or drawings please let me know. My father and I have pretty much every wagon book on british companies and loads of drawings from old Model Railway Constructer andModel Railways News magazines back to the 1930s in some cases - back when mags were for modelling with the info you needed to make your own stock.  

I will look forward to seeing Marmions Farm when you get it done, complete with the famous flag holding scene? If you need info on US WW2 vehicles I have a reasonable bit of info, and know a little about US battledress and equipment in Europe WW2 just from doing the 1/35 models for years. I’m hoping  to start work on a 1/35 diorama at some stage complete with a BP44 German armoured train set in the Trieste area at the wars end. The railway vehicles have mostly been acquired so I just  need a suitable Gauge1 loco to motorise it! The bulk of the Yugoslav (ex British and American) vehicle kits have also been acquired, along with some captured German and Italian equipment.  I’ve a few Normandy vehicles and am working through a dozen US halftracks, mainly Dragon and am using spares from these to upgrade older Tamiya kits. A couple will be done in US 2nd Armoured Div markings for Normandy. If you have not already come across them, check out FC Model trend’s resin bits  on the web, I think they do some 28mm stuff as well. Your St Mere Elise church would look amazing in 1/35 but as you say it would need a huge build plate or broken up.

There is certainly a huge amount of 28mm and 1/72 vehicle prints designed primarily for resin printers on Cults 3D. I’m tempted to try and scale a couple up to 1/35 just to see how they would do. 

I bought my printer primarily for me and my fathers borders/Scottish railway interests with the intention of designing and printing North British, North Eastern, Caley and LNWR stuff mainly, along with crates, barrels, etc for wagon loads. I had thought there would be some military applications as well, but was genuinely surprised by how much more military stuff was freely available compared to railway items. Apart from some Sherman light guards, I have not printed any of the large number of military files I have downloaded. I’ve mainly printed some 2mm LMS and BR containers scaled up to 4mm while I learn more about the best settings for my machine. Sithlord kindly sent me some of his 2mm LNWR wagon body .stls and they have printed remarkably well at 4mm, along with a Furness cattle wagon from one of his fellow N guagers in OZ. They seem to have a great collective group going there. As they use chassis from the2mm society they only do body only .sls so a LNWr 18’ chassis is high on my to do list once I get to grips with fusion360.  I’ve only been at the printing for a few weeks but it’s addictive and your excellent models posted on RMweb are mainly to blame for making me take the plunge.

Let me know if you are hunting for any drawings.

All the best,

Stephen