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@DaveJfr0 posted:

This is really nice work.

I'd suggest the grandt line AB brake set (#3049) next time, as I'm sure the shapeways stuff is fragile and perhaps more expensive. 

https://www.grandtline.com/for...laneous-car-details/

how did you build the interior styrene pieces, like the seat with what seem like perfectly rounded edges? or the grill on the stove? (carefully sliced a styrene tube?)  I'm actually working on a caboose interior and decided I was just gonna 3D print everything for more perfection than I could get with hand-making everything, but if i could cut perfectly square and round edges as needed as you have done, I wouldn't be going that route.

 

Hi Dave:

I looked at the Grandt brakes but decided on the Shapeways....  they are actually very sturdy...a few compromises with exact scale and some minor details but very good overall.

The interior pieces are cut from sheets of Evergreen styrene.  .020 thick O-scale car siding to be exact.  I use a small machinist square for straight cuts and I use emery board to round the corners.  

To get the various pieces to sit square I only scribe the cut lines and then bend the piece carefully.  Once in a square position I add a length of Evergreen styrene angle to the inside of the bend.... usually the .080 size and that holds the pieces square and very firmly.

The pipe for the stove is as you surmise a carefully sliced styrene tube.  I sliced off very thin pieces to simulate the joints where the pipe bends.

I also just finished the interior walls.  The roof and bay window walls are one piece with various components cut from flat stock.  When I am ready to assemble the car the interior components will be attached to the walls and then the walls to the inner car sides.

 

Regards

Bill  (AZBill) 

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