Nn3

[chessie system fan]

In my code 25 tests last year, I just opened up the area holding the rail in place a smidge on version 2.0.  That worked.

[timwatson]

And it is hard to find cars, trucks, and wagons for a 1915ish layout. Artitec makes a model-T, but it is a fancy touring model. And it can go for about $35 bucks. I found this online for free and printed it for about 15 cents. yeah it is also a touring model, but what can you do?

Ewww very nice mind sharing the link to that car?

[Chris333]

Ewww very nice mind sharing the link to that car?

https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=59520.msg820403#msg820403

[Chris333]

Random call out to all the Z scalers out there...

Does anyone have a Marklin 88741 locomotive for sale? Or for you to leave on the window sill next to the pie.

https://www.maerklin.de/en/products/details/article/88741

[Chris333]

More on the boxcar, now in primer.







It is to scale now, but I think I'll lower in .015".     The grabs are drawn .010" thick. Maybe on the next one I'll slim that down a little. I was worried about the stirrups, but they are strong.

[garethashenden]

Can you print the grabs freestanding? If the stirrups work the grabs may too.

[Chris333]

I dunno, this is Nn3. I'm fine with cast on grabs. (I just need to draw them better) My Starrett pin vise will not grip a piece of .010" piano wire. This is also Nn3 with wire grabs:

[dem34]

Think its fine to reserve the more nerve wracking drill work for Locomotives and Cabeese. Those are where your eyes are going to focus on more anyways.

[Chris333]

Some dirty work. Hard to get an idea of scale in Nn3. I keep switching between x1.5 and x2 reading glasses because nether works all the time    I have a x5 pair that I use once in a while. If this layout was 2" longer and 2" wider it would be the scale size of my whole HOn30 layout. But oh well here is the slop.



This depot was on the Waynesburg & Washington in PA.


Mabry Mill that I did in HO scale:

[garethashenden]

Dude! I think I'm going to take up knitting. Or stamp collecting.

[randgust]

Wow, your entire project reminds me of that saying that 'if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail'.... in that you've become a master CAD designer + RP printer and now that's your first go-to on about everything.   Particularly impressed with the ties.

Your little depot looks nearly identical to the PRR depot at Trunkeyville, making me wonder if that really was a standard plan, I've never been able to prove it though. 

But given nearly a similar Nn3 layout, I've gone through more stripwood, jigs, white glue, and styrene than I have in years.   Nothing is RP printed, but the results are scarily similar on the buildings.  And I've done that same bridge in stripwood for the Hickory Valley modules.

I've always leaned to wood for wood, if for no other reason than with some tie stain, it weathers so well, especially for unpainted stuff.  Anybody else I'd be skeptical to pull it off, but I have no doubt here.

I've got one of my sons doing my RP printing for what little I need, but yours is the most 'all RP' project I've ever seen!

[Chris333]

Wait till you see all the Blair Line feed store wood parts that I re-did in 3D resin.    At one point I was designing something new while the printer was printing the last. I almost bought a second printer to keep up.


Do wish I could do wood grain and rock/stone work in 3D.

[peteski]

Chris,
looks like CAD and 3D printing have become your main hobby.     By that I mean it is the hobby you likely spend most time on.

[Scottl]

Wait till you see all the Blair Line feed store wood parts that I re-did in 3D resin.    At one point I was designing something new while the printer was printing the last. I almost bought a second printer to keep up.


Do wish I could do wood grain and rock/stone work in 3D.

I did some simple wood grain on generic board shapes in Blender following online tutorials, very simple.  I exported them to Tinkercad as OBJ files and added them to a project there.  It worked really well.

[timwatson]

Wait till you see all the Blair Line feed store wood parts that I re-did in 3D resin.    At one point I was designing something new while the printer was printing the last. I almost bought a second printer to keep up.


Do wish I could do wood grain and rock/stone work in 3D.

I will release my Bildr Mats soon. It will be stl's of wood grained and brick textures created in blender for use on creating models like the ones we like to make.