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Post by markm on Apr 5, 2019 17:20:48 GMT -5
I particularly like the way the signal bridge has turned out. Maybe a bit of dusting with a grey or rust weathering powder to suggest age.
It's funny how times have changed, I would never think of 3D printing the pedestals. I'd would have shaped them from styrene or cast them with plaster.
Mark
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2019 23:30:25 GMT -5
About weathering : I don't use it on my layout, I love the "new, even toy-like" aspect, it remembers to me my youth in the sixties and my first Märklin HO-layout.
The signal bridges have a notch, and so I decided to design pedestals which fit perfectly, it's a question of tenths of a millimeter (I already got them) ; and I will use the same material (the name is "Nylon PA11/12 gris" at Sculpteo) for the "simple" signals, and the dwarf signals which will be ordered in a few weeks. Maybe I will even add a "romanesque halfpipe" (half a circle and two vertical walls) with the same material, a few centimeters long to be fixed inside of the tunnel portals : 3D printing allows even to design them so they fit my Rokuhan curves. It looks silly if there is nothing inside of the tunnels ... it's better to put walls even if the material is not the same as for the portals themselves.
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Post by markm on Apr 6, 2019 12:54:14 GMT -5
Yes I'm not a great fan of weathering either. Most railroads maintain their equipment so I don't go beyond a bit of oxidation or soot. And of course I model before the graffiti era started.
Once again I'm impressed how times have changed. My first tunnel was made from wheat paste and newspaper draped over a slinky toy (headline was something about de Gaulle and U.S. gold). My most recent one was 1/2 inch Styrofoam, hand broken, glued in layers and sprayed with dark grey paint.
Mark
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