Mudmagnet Workbench

Mudmagnet

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I have been building a shortened version of Buxton depot in 7mm scale, with the office building on the opposite side. Now nearing completion.

The main structure is 40thou plasticard, i.e. inner and outer walls with 80thou spacers with apertures cut for the two main side windows. The internal and external walls being clad with South Eastern Finecast plain brick (I prefer this to the Slaters brick and comes in larger sheets. The office is a series of 40thou boxes. The roof is also 40thou, with corrugated profile sheets.

Painting of the brick work is is using acrylic paints (Warhammer / Games Workshop), with a couple of shades lightly brushed over the brick surface and allowed to dry before adding the mortar colour. The roof was sprayed grey, before painting the brick work and then grey paint lightly brushed over. Then using Warhammer shading paint (Agrax Earthshade).

More to follow.

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Mudmagnet

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The main side and roof windows were 3D printed on my filament printer. The photo has a little distortion, but they are straight!

In order to fit onto the printer bed, these are printed in sections, so left hand / right hand and the centre cut to length to suit. These are glued to 40thou clear acetate sheet.

The smaller office windows are cut by hand from 10thou plasticard. If I have several windows to do, then I would cut these on my Silhouette cutter, having first made a 2D CAD drawing and exported as a DXF file into the Silhouette Studio software.

The louvre door and double doors are also 3D printed (filament). The roof vents and telephone bell are 3D resin printed. I've only just bought the resin printer (Elegoo Mars), so still on the learning curve!

more to follow.

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Mudmagnet

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I'm looking at the Elegoo Mars2 or new Saturn. Are they good?

I've only been using the Elegoo Mars for a week, but so far very pleased. After a little setting up - I initially had not levelled the build plate correctly, the test prints worked well. My own prints work OK, although I do need to tweak a few settings / supports to get the best result, but a learning curve. I had read a few reviews and watched a couple of YouTube videos and this printer has some good feedback.
 

AdeMoore

Western Thunderer
Quite brilliant top work Richard. Will it go to an owner with a thread anywhere? Be interested to see it in situ.
Cheers
Ade
 
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