Week ending 27th October
During the week we erected Frecclesham in the Layout Room to check that all was working satisfactorily prior to the Open Day. Thankfully it was.
At the start of the week work started on this and other 3D printed small wagons in 4mm. Below is one of the prototypes.
As 3D prints they arrive with support structure as below. They clean up pretty easily though carefull filing is needed to finish off. They are small, the material is light and adding extra weight for an empty wagon will be a bit of a problem
The hand rails on the ends do not always print well, so some 0.33 NS wire has been used.
Also on Friday Luke was putting together DG couplings for his shunting plank. The Dinorwic quarry wagons are some of the latest releases from Bachmann.
Not to be outdone, LBH is also building some short wheelbase Welsh wagons, this time in Scaleseven.
They are from the same source, Andrew Smith (eBay 3D printolutions) and are in development.
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