3D van

[Chris Vernell]

The twins:

Australian style while the epoxy on the solebars cures, and ABS angle under the ends to attach the Binnie couplers to.

 

[Chris Vernell]

After chucking laundry in the dryer, I got the Binnie couplers installed:



Next, cut the roof planks, install the roof planks, sheet over the roof planks — all the while trying not to slice my fingers or glue them to the plastic

 

[ge_rik]

Looking good, Chris.

Rik

 

[Chris Vernell]

Roofies!

Well, it’s a start, innit?

 

[PhilP]

Roofies!
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Well, it’s a start, innit?

Guttered! You haven't done more..


PhilP.

 

[Chris Vernell]

Guttered! You haven't done more..


PhilP.

Yes, I have.

Just have to slice out a thin plank to fill the gap, which I will do once the epoxy under these planks has set up a bit.
I have also cut the planks for the twin van.

 

[Chris Vernell]

Ze plank, boss, ze plank!


I ran out of white styrene, but by chance found a leftover piece of black, so the vans are roofed. I’ll do the overlay in a couple of days after the epoxy is properly cured.

 

[Chris Vernell]

Not a van, but it is the very first 3D wagon I did when I bought my printer. Just got around to assembling it

 

[Gerard]

Hi Chris, nice project you describe here. Could you inform us about the nozzle , raisin and printing parameters you used?
The walls and roof panels look like they are about 3-4 mm thick and probably take a lot of raisin?

 

[Chris Vernell]

We does love our clamps, we does:

Twin1 gets its top cover.

 

[Chris Vernell]

Topped:


I rather like the contrast of the white roofs

So I think I shall repaint the AnDel van roof to break up the outline a bit.
Yes, I know that in real life, white roofs lasted until the first blast of exhaust from the loco fell on them
I shall wait to paint the three new vans until the temps fall a bit toward the end of next week.

 

[dunnyrail]

Topped:

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I rather like the contrast of the white roofs
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So I think I shall repaint the AnDel van roof to break up the outline a bit.
Yes, I know that in real life, white roofs lasted until the first blast of exhaust from the loco fell on them
I shall wait to paint the three new vans until the temps fall a bit toward the end of next week.

Many wagon roofs tended to be painted a ‘Roofing Lead’ colour that looks white in pictures. A light weathering with matt bkack tends to lift roofs in light colours, but that is a rule 1 thing.

 

[Chris Vernell]

Temps down, so got outdoors with rattlecans:

Grey primer


Red primer because the grey can was empty, and because I’m thinking that brown vans might be a thing.


“Army green” for the work train.

And I don’t know why these pix are not horizontal.

 

[dunnyrail]

Temps down, so got outdoors with rattlecans:
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Grey primer

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Red primer because the grey can was empty, and because I’m thinking that brown vans might be a thing.

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“Army green” for the work train.

And I don’t know why these pix are not horizontal.

For some reason pics not changing to correct orientation, been occuring since last weekend. I have resolved it for some of mine which were upside down by taking them with the iPad the other way up!

 

[Paul M]

For some reason pics not changing to correct orientation, been occuring since last weekend. I have resolved it for some of mine which were upside down by taking them with the iPad the other way up!

Of course it may not be the pictures that are up the wrong way, but the words

 

[PhilP]

Time for a new slant, on large-scale modelling...


Of course it is the rest of us who are wrong... As any Mac user will tell you, they never get viruses, or have problems.


PhilP.

 

[dunnyrail]

Time for a new slant, on large-scale modelling...


Of course it is the rest of us who are wrong... As any Mac user will tell you, they never get viruses, or have problems.


PhilP.

If only that were still true!

 

[JimmyB]

As any Mac user will tell you, they never get viruses,

PhilP.

True, due to the current architecture, Macs cannot get a virus in their system, and you cannot introduce malware, however as with any systems, clicking and following links is never a good idea.

 

[Chris Vernell]

Second rattle coat, recommended 48 hours after first:

After cogitation, I returned the red van to grey. The camera is pickiing up red wot the eye cannot see.

 

[Chris Vernell]

Photo test:

This was taken in landscape mode rather than portrait, and lo, it turns out horizontal.
Anyway, the vans will spend the afternoon in the hi-tek paint booth so the fooms can evaporate.