the italian job (april update)

[borsig1963]

Over a year later, work in the depot area is finally well underway, and it's possible to begin installing the poles and then the overhead line...

PS: Background added with geminiAI

 

[borsig1963]

no much time to work at layout, so just a little upgrade with a shot

 

[Gerard]

Hello,
All these posts about 3D printing are very interesting.
I have a Creality 3D printer myself that prints thin layers on a moving flat surface.
I notice that people here often use a different type of printer, where the model is suspended from a flat plate in a resin bath.
My question is: if you don’t have a resin bath printer, how can you still get good results with a flat-bed 3D printer?

 

[Madman]

no much time to work at layout, so just a little upgrade with a shot

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I don't know how I missed this thread. But browsing through it just now I must say that your modeling talent is first class. I like how you took one aspect of the transit world and modeled it in excellent detail.

 

[borsig1963]

Hello,
All these posts about 3D printing are very interesting.
I have a Creality 3D printer myself that prints thin layers on a moving flat surface.
I notice that people here often use a different type of printer, where the model is suspended from a flat plate in a resin bath.
My question is: if you don’t have a resin bath printer, how can you still get good results with a flat-bed 3D printer?

You can't, unless you get a printer from the brand BambuLab; I’m thinking of getting one to use alongside my Elegoo (resin) printer...

 

[Zerogee]

A friend of mine has a Bambu, and for some jobs it is ALMOST as good as a resin printer - no filament printer can match the detail level that is possible with the resin ones, but then they are designed for very different jobs - filament for relatively inexpensive large prints, resin for highly detailed smaller items.

Jon.

 

[borsig1963]

A friend of mine has a Bambu, and for some jobs it is ALMOST as good as a resin printer - no filament printer can match the detail level that is possible with the resin ones, but then they are designed for very different jobs - filament for relatively inexpensive large prints, resin for highly detailed smaller items.

Jon.

100% agree

 

[Gerard]

I have printed quit a few GScale sized objects that look really good and also have a strong structure.
The secret for that is to cut your model into long/flat pieces that can be printed on the flat bed.
By doing so you create long plastic fibers making the object strong in the long directions of the flat area.
After printing these flat/long objects you must glue them together to make the desired object.

See some examples below.

 

[Gerard]

Here is the real snow plough!

 

[borsig1963]

Yesterday I finished installing the overhead line in the shed area (trolley mode); here is the first tram heading out...
(a great opportunity to see that the post on the right needs to be straightened)