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, […]
Why the sporadic updates?
Ask any woman and the one thing that no man can do is multi-task. Who am I to argue with that apparent fact? Railway modelling comes way down the priority list when you have a family and updating a blog about railway modelling below that!
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.
Testing for continuity
Have made up all the jumper cables the other evening, the last remaining electrical job was to solder the dropper cables on the corner boards. These hadn’t been done because I wasn’t happy with the track alignment. However, with the first exhibition looming …
Making the Jumpers
After another long hiatus, and with the Seaboard Southern Show now only a few weeks away, I sat down this evening with a film on Amazon Prime, two rolls of cable, a bunch of banana plugs and sockets plus some chocolate blocks and proceeded to make up the jumper cables for connecting power to adjacent boards.
Track and wiring
Progress on the modules has been slow, for which read non-existent. With the looming date of the Seaboard Southern show in September, at which these are expected to not only appear but be operational, it’s high time to extract the digit!
The Extension Begins
Erik’s been incredibly patient, his test track not being particularly testing. However, work has now begun on the centre board, on which the points and sidings will sit. Some of the sidings will cross the joins onto the outer boards but, in test track mode, this will just provide track on which to sit rolling […]