Mike Trice
Western Thunderer
I thought it about time I posted something on here showing what I am up to. I don't tend to model very often being involved in prototype research and occasionally producing artwork for the full size railway.
In the past my modelling projects have been described in detail on RMWeb and include the following:
1. Reproducing a Stirling Single from a Bachmann "Emily" from their Thomas the Tank Engine series. Typically this was before Locomotion announced their model:
2. Extensively rebuilding the Rails LNER Dynamometer Car to 1938 condition correcting a large number of issues with the model:
3. Playing around trying to improve the original Bachmann Thompson Coaches:
4. For a while I have been producing 3D printed detailing parts which are available via Shapeways. This is one of my GNR Carriage models completed:
5. I also own an Anycubic Photon 3D printer which I use to develop parts for my own use. This one was a free download from Thingiverse that I could not resist:
6. Some railway related mouldings produced on the Photon:
The effort I had to expend correcting the Dynamometer Car and the ever escalating cost of modern RTR has led me to change my philosophy going forward to become more self sufficient relying more on components I can produce on the Photon such as the V2 body posted on a previous thread:
I did this more as a challenge to see if I could.
So having set the scene I will move on to something more worthy of WT.
In the past my modelling projects have been described in detail on RMWeb and include the following:
1. Reproducing a Stirling Single from a Bachmann "Emily" from their Thomas the Tank Engine series. Typically this was before Locomotion announced their model:
2. Extensively rebuilding the Rails LNER Dynamometer Car to 1938 condition correcting a large number of issues with the model:
3. Playing around trying to improve the original Bachmann Thompson Coaches:
4. For a while I have been producing 3D printed detailing parts which are available via Shapeways. This is one of my GNR Carriage models completed:
5. I also own an Anycubic Photon 3D printer which I use to develop parts for my own use. This one was a free download from Thingiverse that I could not resist:
6. Some railway related mouldings produced on the Photon:
The effort I had to expend correcting the Dynamometer Car and the ever escalating cost of modern RTR has led me to change my philosophy going forward to become more self sufficient relying more on components I can produce on the Photon such as the V2 body posted on a previous thread:
I did this more as a challenge to see if I could.
So having set the scene I will move on to something more worthy of WT.