Thanks Doug.

Hope the TMS stuff calms down soon.

Might have to stop prevaricating and order one...

Hi 'Doug,

long time and all that...

Have you had a chance to play with this any more yet?

Was thinking of getting one so wondered if you had any more thoughts on it.

Ta,

Ivan.

Hi, Slightly smaller worm gears available here http://shop.kkpmo.com/index.php?cat=c63_M0-15-Schnecken-M0-15-Schnecken.html Best Petr Thanks PetrOs, I was thrown by there being no picture on that page but I've got it now. Did you purchase your 2.85mm gears with a 1mm hole or a 1.5mm hole? Joe. I go...

Hi Joe, I'm sure there are several people on the forum who would like to design steam train bodies to fit your chassis. I kmow I would. I've done a few in Z scale that I can probably scale down farily quickly. I'd like to pursue a chassis design of my own but given I know nothing about designing cha...

Hi, I've found that it's possible to export models created in Blender, mess with then in Inkscape, and load then into the software for my silhouette cutter thing. Blender has alternative rendering engines... one called freestyle lets you do line drawings which can be exported as SVG files... then it...

Hi Joe,

Oh, I see... I like 3d printed stuff as it misses out the assembly stages and the chances to put things together wrong but then painting is the next problem. Might have to have a rethink...

So what's next?

Ivan

Well done Doug!

And I'm glad the news show finally went out... would have been a shame to go though all that stress for nothing.

Hope this helps! Certainly does, Thanks Joe. I'm still waiting for parts to arrive, then I'll be able to start measuring and send a print of a chassis off to shapeways... then get back to the waiting... Then I'll be back with more questions... or probably bleating about glueing it all into a solid ...

Hi Joe, thanks again for posting what you're doing. I've started attempting to follow along, so far it amounts to some shopping... and quite a lot of "this is tiny"... :) I've got the etched fret of connecting bits and have a rough idea of what goes where but the finer details escape me. Any chance ...

very nice!!!

and makes me want to dust of some old projects.

thanks for posting.

you got me. :oops: recently we've been decorating the house and fighting with our overgrown hedge - hedge now more or less subdued. I've only managed to squirt some clear coat onto a couple of models in the last month. Next on my t-gauge list. assemble my latest version of a t-gauge point/turnout pa...

hope all goes well for you

Ivan.

better late than never - Top Job Doug. Well done.

and thanks for doing the video.

Looking forward to further progress.

Hi Graham, snag with those is the bogies... the chassis needs to sit inside the cab ( so to speak ) but the bogies need to stick out in front under the bonnet. I think some people have stuck hacked up a bogie and stuck half on the front to make a 3 axle bogie but don't know how succesful that's been...

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Well done Doug... another small milestone... you deserve a short break...

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did you enjoy that? Now back to work...

there's some numbers on the olo kickstarter page... X-Y resolution: up to 0.042 mm (quality dep. on device) , Z resolution: up to 0.036 mm (0.12 mm in quick-mode) Even if you add on the cost of a dedicated smart phone it's still a pretty cheap way to a 3d printer. I'm wondering who will be the first...

I use blender... it's free, bit tricky to get into but once you've figured out how to switch all the irrelevant bits off it's pretty good. I've recently been messing with the solidify modifier - once you've got a body shell it allows you to resize it but keep the wall thickness the same which is ver...

time for a small hurrah then.

Finishing half the buildings is a bit of a milestone.

hope things stick to the plan.

thanks Doug... now I know how big it is I'll see if I can measure it and get the numbers to come out right...