A New Year

 Happy New Year All.

This hobby of ours is a wonderful thing. The variety of elements to it are endless. As you may know I have been looking to produce my own rolling stock and building across my layout through designing and 3D printing my models. 

Over the last weekend I had plenty of time to undertake some design work as I monitored the Sea Rescue Radios at Edithburgh. I had two 5 hour shifts and as most of the punters had gone home after the Christmas break there was not a lot happening on the water. So I took my laptop, some drawings, photos and as much information as I could gather about the SAR Employee Sleeping Vans, Particularly ESV8131, the restored .van at the Port Dock Museum.

Armed with my info I set about converting measurements off a 1971 drawing, which I only had online, my Sketchup make 2017 CAD program, an Excel spreadsheet to to the relationship calculations and scaling calculations.

The resulting drawing, I think, came out OK

The real test comes though when you get home, put it in the slicer and then print the model. So here is my first attempt. There are few issues  but the overall look and feel isn't bad. I think the scaling is not quite right and it sits a little high, but for a weekend's work. I'm happy. BTW the CPG is my design as well, that was last weeks work. 

Most importantly they run well.

Keep them trains rolling

The Commish.