Another Useful Tool

Posted by Alan on 11th September 2025 in 3D Printing |

We’re continuing to push the local knowledge boundaries, so I thought I’d throw this into the mix, a portable bench vise for the travelling modelling kit.

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Adding A Bit Of Colour

Posted by Alan on 8th September 2025 in 3D Printing, Model Railways, Rolling Stock |

In between mowing the lawns and pruning the wisteria at the weekend, I managed to get some base colours onto those 3D prints. As my Halford’s primers are running out, I’m replacing them with Plastikote from Toolstation. Halfords have apparently changed their paint supplier and gone is the range of manufacturer-specific colours for matching your […]

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Improving Print Quality

Posted by Alan on 22nd August 2025 in 3D Printing, Model Railways, Rolling Stock |

Having been advised that a train of five hoppers plus caboose was going to be too long for most of the fiddle yards and passing loops in our modular group, I decided to print a sixth. Irish logic? Maybe, but I’m entitled, second generation. No, that gives me two trains of three which, with removable […]

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Scaling The Learning Curve

Posted by Alan on 5th August 2025 in 3D Printing, Model Railways, Rolling Stock |

Flushed with that apparent success, I printed a pair of flat wagons, one with bulkheads, both in two parts. These will take some weighting before they’ll track well on the modular layout!

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Access to a Bambu Labs P1S

Posted by Alan on 5th August 2025 in 3D Printing, Model Railways, Rolling Stock |

Work recently acquired an FDM printer, a BambuLab P1S. Obviously, it’s for work stuff, obviously. I might have printed some model railway bits on it, purely as part of the learning process you understand. The learning process does not yet involve CAD as it’s enough for me to download and print the work of others. Thingiverse, […]

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