Rob Pulham Posted July 31, 2021 Author Share Posted July 31, 2021 After joint the Gauge O Guild's special interest group on 3D cad and printing I have been drawing up a few items that I have long been unable to source from the trade. Slaters do very nice lost wax castings of brake standards and stoves but they are both LMS in origin and I wanted the LNER versions so since having a dabble at drawing I decided to have a go at them. I started with a brake standard. and then with the version with the wooden box over the mechanism. More to follow. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Pulham Posted July 31, 2021 Author Share Posted July 31, 2021 Moving swiftly along from the brake standard modifications. You may recall further up the thread my making a stove for the brake van using my Silhouette cutter. Although I proved it was possible, it was extremely fiddly to assemble and I certainly wouldn't want to be doing a lot of them. It's also a perfect candidate for 3D printing so yesterday morning (after amending the brake standard files) I started to draw up the stove. It has proved to be my most ambitious and ultimately satisfying design project to date. My apologies for the image overload but I am delighted at how well it has turned out. 5 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Pulham Posted August 5, 2021 Author Share Posted August 5, 2021 I don't really want to start yet another thread in another part of the forum so I will just pop this here. If I get around to having them printed, they will ultimately feature on an item of rolling stock at some point. I plan to do springs for them at some point too. After having it pointed out to me by a friend that we don't always model the full axle box behind the W Iron in our scales I modified the file to produce a version that sits in front of the W Iron 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Pulham Posted September 5, 2022 Author Share Posted September 5, 2022 Back in March last year, I had finally got around to painting my hand crane and match trucks after adding additional tool boxes. I also made some tools to go with the tool boxes. Consisting of a couple of crow bars, a hammer, and a shovel along with a length of chain. Fast forward to this year and I decided to enter it into the modelling competition at Guildex. At the beginning of last week I thought that I had better relieve the plain black livery with some lettering. A friend had kindly let me have a second set of "Crane Runner" transfers as you only get one set on the HMRS sheet. A couple of shots taken out in the sunshine this morning. As it turned out it was one of three cranes entered in the competition and as I was setting it up I knew that it wasn't going to take first place. In contrast to mine was an enormous scratch built modern crane, complete with a pair of bogie match trucks and a professional paint job, that made a really good model into a superb model. A worthy winner in my view. I was pleasantly surprised and pleased that mine took the third place "Commended "spot. 8 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffP Posted September 6, 2022 Share Posted September 6, 2022 Rob, I've just seen your 3-D printed stuff on this thread. Is any of it available to buy? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Pulham Posted September 6, 2022 Author Share Posted September 6, 2022 14 hours ago, JeffP said: Rob, I've just seen your 3-D printed stuff on this thread. Is any of it available to buy? Hello Jeff, Some of it is available through Mike Hopkins Of Scale Factor (https://scale-factor.co.uk/) His website isn't fully up and running with a catalogue just yet but if you tell what you are interested in I can tell you whether Mike has the STL files for it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffP Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 Thanks Rob. The stove and the open sided brake standard. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Pulham Posted September 7, 2022 Author Share Posted September 7, 2022 56 minutes ago, JeffP said: Thanks Rob. The stove and the open sided brake standard. Hi Jeff, Yes, they are both available from Mike. He had some for sale on his stand at Guildex last weekend. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffP Posted September 8, 2022 Share Posted September 8, 2022 Thanks Rob. Missed both Kettering and Stoke this year. My duties as a carer don't give me much leeway. I'll try and contact him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgeT Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 Hello Rob, Very nice to see you Stafford last weekend, l mentioned some sort of windows for the mail train l am building, after thinking about them l have decided to use some black transfers l have left over from some wagon kits l have had in the past, take care mate... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Pulham Posted September 10, 2022 Author Share Posted September 10, 2022 It was good to see you too George, it's always nice to catch up. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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