7mm Richards P48 US Thread

[richard carr]

I've been busy with quite a few things since I got back, including the S7 layout !

I brought a couple of tank cars back and I have been 3D printing a suitable bolster to enable their conversion to P48



Here's the first one



These are brutal close ups, here's what you can see on the tank car





Once these are painted a suitable colour they will look just fine

This is the underneath of the print



I keep wondering how to get smooth bottom to it ?

 

[simond]

Need to look at your printer settings for the first few layers. Presuming that side was on the print bed?

 

[richard carr]

Hi SImon, yes that was the print bed side

 

[simond]

It’s a while since I did any FDM prints but I recall that Cura has settings for the first few layers, and for the infill. I guess all slicers are similar.

 

[richard carr]

I'm using Cura Simon, I think I need to watch a Youtube video on it.

Thanks

 

[richard carr]

I've been doing a bit more boxcar weathering this week, I watched a few videos on youtube for some new ideas.
So this car was first dulled down with a very pale grey acrylic, then it was dirtied with some oil paints.




It got a bit too much pale grey on the left hand side, the right hand side I'm very pleased with.









I also picked these up from my last trip

The UP SD70 MAC in ONE livery is an Atlas premier loco so formerly an MTH loco





Then this Boston and Maine GP7 (I think it's a 7) another lovely SUnset models loco