Modules Acquired & Wiring Updates
Back in October last year, I purchased the modules of somebody who since left our group, giving me another 90° and 9′ of track. These fitted into the car quite snuggly, as they were already crated for transport. Bear in mind that I already have 180° and 6′ of modules of my own, but I’ve […]
Adding A Bit Of Colour
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 […]
Improving Print Quality
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 […]
Scaling The Learning Curve
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!
Access to a Bambu Labs P1S
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, […]
Modules finally named and ballasted
In other news, the dry weather today was exploited and my boards have received ballast! Davidson Crossing, Sunstone Creek, Balfern Curve and Inworth Curve are now drying in the shed.
Modules depths reduced to 100mm
Using a jig that I constructed last night from bits of wood in the shed, we have this afternoon reduced the depth of all the Tim Horn board kits in stock to 4″ from 6″, or 100mm from 150mm in modern money.
Autumn Modelling Day 2015
At the 7mm NGA‘s Surrey Area Group Autumn Modelling Day, I took my four module boards to set up in the hall with Brian’s, partly to show other people the concept but also to try out other operating methods.
Painting the module boards
Another hiatus, another school holiday! Having put my Dear Lady Wife and Son / Heir on a plane to Slovakia for half-term, I was able to take the module boards out of the loft and treat them to a coat of paint.
Making stock boxes
For years, in fact forever, my rolling stock has lived in the boxes it arrived in, regardless of whether I bought it new or used. In the case of Bachmann stock, that means either large or larger green boxes with a great deal of dead space inside. When you put it all in the cupboard, […]