Mossys 3D Models

Which all just shows how busy lumps of the Cloud are! Fusion 360 being cloud based suffers the same and can be &*(^% frustrating.

 

More experiments.

Having failed miserably with the Krystal Clear the second option for windows is/was a bottle of clear Eco Resin which came as a free gift but has never been used. The plan draw up inserts for each of the window types and extrude them as thin as possible, I choose .5mm and .75mm just to see which worked the best. A few of each were printed off and looked really nicely crystal clear, into the wash machine and out came horribly opaque utterly useless windows. Another option written off - such is life.

While all that was brewing I thought I would have a go at lining out the coach sides. I had a yellow fine liner pen so thought lets give it a bash. Not as easy as I thought and to be honest with a .7mm nib a bit thick, some good some bad some passable. Below a shot of one of the best bits. I have found and ordered a new liner with a .4mm nib, side two now awaits our beloved postal services.



Mossy

 

Cheers Rob I will see what can be done, I was planning to simple spray over the top with Crimson Lake and then reapply the detailing

 

Before going in search of Rob's floor polish I thought since the yellow linin is sitting on top of 2 health layers of gloss varnish and not knowing what the lining pens ink was why not give acrylic thinners a go. Experiments showed an ear bud soaked in thinners worked but ..., test 2 was a couple of drops of thinners dropped into a panel and left for a minute or so worked better, window surrounds didn't work as well but the lining comes away with a bit more work. The photo below is part of the first layer of clean up of the side, it will need another session and then I think another layer of gloss varnish just to make sure everything below is trapped in. Close up photos are really cruel aren't they!

 

I have tried using it to make filler but am not convinced how successful it was, as for resin drying skin I always understood once cured it is a pretty inert material.

 

A digression.

A couple of days ago while looking for a reference to the low arc coaches in the NER Express I stumbled across an article on revolving signals not a subject I knew anything about and in the next copy a dimensioned sketch with a detailed colour scheme, red rage to a bull. Seemingly common place the article written in 1962 pointed the author pointed out he knew of 3 that still existed. Anyway today I drew up three basic models, the mounting post, signal post and lamp, fired up the printer for a test print and now have 2 of these:



I haven't a clue what to do with them, but they can be used for painting practice.

 

That sounds interesting, another experiment me thinks, will these low arcs ever get finished.

 

Paul,

I know diddly-squat about signalling but the article states the NER used these in 2 specific conditions:

a) Country level crossings where the gates are normally kept closed to road traffic if the crossing is not kept protected by normal signals as in when a block post is adjacent.

b) Where a road crosses sidings adject to a main line so that shunting takes place across the road. The revolving board only applies to the siding with the main line controlled by normal signals.

Operated either by hand, a ground frame or signal box, case b above was always controlled from a signal box.
Signal face on stop, face sided ways clear

 

Something for the weekend? Two revolving board signals, that didn't take long.
Going free to anyone who can give them a good home.

Mossy