... products and materials: All chairs21xx is no longer First To Try in: Frosted Ultra Detail Frosted Extreme Detail What does this mean? This means that we can confidently make your product, and you can confidently sell your product to customers in these materials. We've updated each product page so that these materials are now listed as "Products". This is to help your customers feel confident that they're purchasing a product that can be successfully made. posted: 18 Jan 2018 21:49 from: Andrew Barrowman This just arrived. 2983_181646_300000000.jpg 2983_181646_310000001.jpg 2983_181646_310000002.jpg posted: 18 Jan 2018 21:56 from: d827kelly That looks rather good Andrew. How strong or brittle does it feel? posted: 18 Jan 2018 22:04 from: Andrew Barrowman d827kelly wrote: That looks rather good Andrew. How strong or brittle does it feel? It's reasonably flexible, but it would not take a lot of rough handling. I was interested to see how well the rails would support the timbers. Seems to work OK but it would be more robust if I added webs ...

... architectural heritage: Trams are likewise running on battery power in many other places around the world. Now if a full-size tram can run on LiPo battery power, not to mention electric cars, and even milk floats (remember them) -- for a model train it ought to be dead easy, surely? Which means in turn that quite soon model trains will no longer need metal rails. You can guess where this is going, and Andy got there a long time before me: topic 2734- message 23411 2983_181646_300000000.jpg My experiments with 3D printing are stalled because of the difficulty of finding consistent settings which allow model rail to be threaded through the chairs easily, without breaking. Model rail sections vary a lot, even between batches, and they all have significantly over-scale web thickness. It is a minefield of trial and error and broken chairs. And that is just for plain track -- threading rails into pointwork is a whole order of magnitude trickier, and of course requires the metalworking skills to make the rails in the first ...