So, what do we get for our money?
A nice touch are the internal walls (even with a fireplace in the front room) attached to the foundation. the windows are separate pieces and could be replaced by Trackside widows. The front porch is also a nice touch and would be hard to replicate otherwise.
Goes together square.
Theres also the back door.
So, opinion time. With the standard proviso that the standard 3D printing clean up is required, I like it. Its a sizable time saver especially if you require several identical buildings which was typical of the railway settlements seem at every sizable station. The negative is that the standard corrugated iron roof is not modeled, though I think it would have come out very poorly in the WSF plastic. I was going to try to give it a number out of 5, but failed. To my mind a better question is "would I buy another one at the same price". The answer is yes.
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I've done one already and also working on a model of our own home in a 3D print. Very happy with the results and excellent value for money!
1 mm model corrugations should be prefectly feasible in WSF, and as that is only slightly under double scale size at 1:120, I reckon it shouldn't look too off.
PS, WSF is nylon-12. Or at least, it used to be. It may have changed, as there was a major accident a few years ago at the only place (in Germany) it was made, which interrupted supplies.
And I'm probably the only other man reading this who will understand what nylon 12 actually is...
Its actually ABS plastic.WSF is what Shapeways uses and is porrous(soaks up paint).
As far as corrugations go I thought Id leave that to the "modeller" to play with.......I might look at it sometime......some people may want to have a tiled roof.
First up, compliments of the season to you and all your readers/followers...
Here I am away for the night and sitting in a room with a glass of red wine and a bowl of chips reading a book about blood pressure. Get to the part about diet and drinking and think, Hmmm maybe I should put the book down as it's getting a bit too close to home and therefore depressing and I should do some work as I don't want to give up the alcohol or nourishment tonight, maybe tomorrow - butttt - a bit later after the wine and chips are gone... so what can I do, arh check the web on my phone of course and what is lurking there but an old blog from Fri May 22, 2009 titled "Dun Manifestin'", sound familiar?
So I want to know, have you stuck to your guns and followed your 'heart', well more like ramblings, but genuine question, 7 years on, are you still abiding by your good intentions posed at the time? Rgds Branchline
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