Someone once said,
"Its better to give than receive."
They obviously weren't an N gauger with a Shapeways account!
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/85/5604-141219173156.jpeg) (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view&id=85122)
Four MR wagons, an LMS six wheel milk van (now I know we will eventually get more chassis), a Sentinel, a 40T LMS armour plate wagon and a 55T LMS armour plate wagon.
Happy Christmas to me (and everyone else, of course!)
Am I reading those bogies right - a regular Rapido at one end and a NEM socket at t'other end? If yes, neat idea that.
Quote from: RailGooner on December 14, 2019, 06:40:20 PM
Am I reading those bogies right - a regular Rapido at one end and a NEM socket at t'other end? If yes, neat idea that.
Hark at ol' eagle eyes.
Yes indeed, printed with a working Rapido at one end and an NEM pocket the other. The Rapido works, but needs a little fettling to 'drop' of its own accord. The designer suggests leaving the pocket intact until you have the printex one working satisfactorily. Then you've got a backup if you snap it. I may go NEM anyway to get a lift more distance between wagons.
I got the whole lot for under £100, including delivered, as Shapeways had a 10% off event. It's all 'finest' print as well. This lot's going in the kit box for a later date. It was a pre-emptive purchase bearing in mind the political situation.
That is a neat idea. Printing NEM sockets is a bugger! I must have done at least 50 variations! The biggest problem is the variation in manufacturers' couplings; you either get sloppy Farish ones, or pockets that crack when you stick a Dapol coupling in!