Tom Insole
Western Thunderer
Great to see you're still getting a go at things, looking forward to catching up with you when you'll be a couple of doors away from mine at the bury model club exhibition
Brushs Laser Cutting and 3d Printing workbench
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BrushType4
Western Thunderer
A customer sent me one of their kits that they’d painted and added details too.
Amazing that this is 4mm. Excuse the AI background!
Amazing that this is 4mm. Excuse the AI background!
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BrushType4
Western Thunderer
I’ve got a LNWR shed being built in the workshop. One of the later concrete structures there is still a fair bit of brick detail to add. Not sure how long these sheds lasted but not long I don’t think.
John57sharp
Western Thunderer
Fab!
BrushType4
Western Thunderer
Wow thanks for your appreciation of this build. I’m really pleased how this has come out. The kit will be delivered to the customer this Friday dry assembled for them to glue and detail up. I’m looking forward to seeing the finished result.
BrushType4
Western Thunderer
All done. None of this is glued at all. Dry assembled only. I quite fancy doing the side offices with the awesome bay window. A project for another day.
Coming up next back to GWR. I’ve a 4mm goods shed and some more GWR varieties of signal boxes.
BrushType4
Western Thunderer
I needed that to get this together! I make my kits with twin walls and over engineered with tabs on everything. It’s great for a long lasting model but sometimes some force is needed!
BrushType4
Western Thunderer
7mm
BrushType4
Western Thunderer
Argh, someone said ‘can’t you make it look a bit like Holyhead and just the front too?’
Well yes, we can.
Well yes, we can.
Pencarrow
Western Thunderer
Could you also make it look like Wadebridge in Cornwall? (Suspect that might be a slightly bigger job....)
BrushType4
Western Thunderer
Not much on the workbench this week.
A mimic panel made up and ready for the wiring by @coastaldcc
These panels are engraved on the backside through a black and white laminate layer to the clear front layer and backfilled with paint or left clear for where we want lights to shine through.
Next up. A ‘brace’ of concrete garages.
A mimic panel made up and ready for the wiring by @coastaldcc
These panels are engraved on the backside through a black and white laminate layer to the clear front layer and backfilled with paint or left clear for where we want lights to shine through.
Next up. A ‘brace’ of concrete garages.
BrushType4
Western Thunderer
Busy one this week and just as well as so cold in the workshop.
For a while now I’ve been thinking that to go with our Wellingborough Shed kit we need the Fuel tank.
A reminder of the shed kit.
The prototype tank and pump house.
I had an idea to use the tubs many of us will have lying around the house and especially this time of year to make the basis of the tank cheaply.
Progress so far. A nicely laser engrave gauge. Note it’s showing the space available in the tank rather than the level left.
The prototype ladder was a bit to difficult to do. The geometry was fine but as a laser cut parts it’s near impossible to assemble. Should be brass or possibly 3D printed.
So I used a vertical ladder type. Prototypical as I manage to find a handy dxf on the internet from a full-size manufacturer.
A bit of a hiccup with the scale.
But an hour or so later we have this.
Just needs some pipes and then it’s going to the paint shop as this will become a demo kit aka intentio display cabinet!
For a while now I’ve been thinking that to go with our Wellingborough Shed kit we need the Fuel tank.
A reminder of the shed kit.
The prototype tank and pump house.
I had an idea to use the tubs many of us will have lying around the house and especially this time of year to make the basis of the tank cheaply.
Progress so far. A nicely laser engrave gauge. Note it’s showing the space available in the tank rather than the level left.
The prototype ladder was a bit to difficult to do. The geometry was fine but as a laser cut parts it’s near impossible to assemble. Should be brass or possibly 3D printed.
So I used a vertical ladder type. Prototypical as I manage to find a handy dxf on the internet from a full-size manufacturer.
A bit of a hiccup with the scale.
But an hour or so later we have this.
Just needs some pipes and then it’s going to the paint shop as this will become a demo kit aka intentio display cabinet!
Overseer
Western Thunderer
I think the ladder is too modern. The current standards require wider ladders with the rungs closer together than older ladders. The ladder up the floodlight pole is more typical for the construction date.
BrushType4
Western Thunderer
You’re right. The ladder is modernish and built to current prototype standards. The actual steps are too difficult for the home modeller to build from lasercut oarts. It would work if I etched in brass but that adds a big cost and my objective was economical hence using the Jacobs snacks tub.
I hope it will still be of use to modern image modellers.
I hope it will still be of use to modern image modellers.
Overseer
Western Thunderer
Just a thought for the staircase, could you laser a wrapper for the Jacobs tube from thin card, Manila folder or similar, with the stair tread locations and the bracket locations cut? With a set of treads and bracket/balusters it could make assembly relatively straightforward.
BrushType4
Western Thunderer
Thanks pretty much what I did but with slightly thicker material.
Just going back to how modern my design is, very similar was installed at Kings Cross refueling tanks at least as early as 1970!
BrushType4
Western Thunderer
I’ve put a bit of primer on the tank which had improved the overall look. I’ll follow this up with Halfords yellow primer as I hope that’s pretty close to prototype colour.
