Another Useful Tool
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.
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!
Side Tank Loco – URIAH
Chris Ward claims that these locos can be ‘Up n Running in Less than One Hour’ so I’ve merely changed that a little to be ‘Up n Running In An Hour’ and used the derived acronym URIAH.
Chris Ward Side Tank Loco
Whilst at SWING in May, I got chatting to Chris Ward of C W Railways about his 3D printed loco bodies. There’s a couple I like but, after cajoling and barracking from some of my fellow Surrey Area Group members, I put my name down for a Side Tank Steam Loco with some modifications.