3D plug track - version 244c and beyond

[Steve_Cornford]

Yes it was the colour that sparked the question, looks a bit like birch ply, but i suppose a bit irrelevant once painted & weathered.

 

[Martin Wynne]

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The problem with relying on defaults is that you forget to make an essential setting. Having now twice got to the stage of inserting the USB stick in the printer before realising that I had forgotten to set the required rail section, I have added a reminder button:

Will be in 244d.

cheers,

Martin.

 

[Martin Wynne]

Yes it was the colour that sparked the question, looks a bit like birch ply, but i suppose a bit irrelevant once painted & weathered.

@Steve_Cornford

Hi Steve,

To my eye most model timbers are too dark. Real timbers vary a lot, but in yards and sidings they can be quite light in colour after exposure to the elements. A sort of silvery grey with an earthy trace of green and brown:

It's generally easier to darken something which is too light rather than the other way round. Most grey filaments have a blue tinge which looks wrong. The exception is the Jayo "rustic grey" filament which has a greeny tinge which looks better, but it is much too dark.

The "burlywood" colour might be a good starting point. After some streaks with typing correction fluid to represent textured splits and cracks, a thin wash of greeny-grey might look about right. Or maybe not -- I shouldn't be writing this stuff without trying it first.

See also this posted yesterday:

https://www.rmweb.co.uk/forums/topic/111599-penrhos-junctions/?do=findComment&comment=5504928

cheers,

Martin.

 

[Hayfield]

@Hayfield

Hi John,

You asked for some pictures of 7mm/ft scale plug track. Here are a few bits. You know how difficult the resin is to photograph, and no sun today to help. The rail is C&L code 131. The P4 turnout is a B-7 for size comparison.

1 raft of S1 and L1 with solid jaws.

1 raft of S1 and L1 with slots for loose jaws.


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cheers,

Martin.

Martin

Thank you for posting these, I have everything in place except time to recap and watch a few of James's videos again

Last Saturday at a Scale 7 event I had the pleasure of talking with John Walker at Aubury, whilst to a certain extent John is ploughing his own farrow, his results (resin chairs and laser cut timbers) were for me very encouraging.

Your own photos just confirm what I saw, I must get my act together and watch these videos and get a blackout blind

Again thanks for all you work on this project, its just stunning and in time will be seen as a turning point in track construction

 

[Martin Wynne]

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Just bumping this diagram from 2 years ago for use on Western Thunder, see:

https://www.westernthunder.co.uk/threads/templot-plug-track-developments.12722/post-301040

Bullhead rail: Templot simplified rail section dimensioning:

Martin.