Finally finished up my Country Church. This is modeled after the one on Profit Road in Charlottesville and in real life sits near the Norfolk Southern Washington Division Track. The basic structure is styrene sheet cut out on my table top CNC machine with lots of details printed on my Creality Ender3 FDM printer. It thought it came out pretty good. It’s just sitting here at the moment, it will get a permanent place on the layout this spring. Dogzilla there keeps an eye out for squirrels.
I accidentally ordered a roll of ABS filament (I had been using PLA) so that forced me to do a bit of tweaking on my 3d printer. Tried the glass bed with it, didn’t work very well. Ended up going back to the regular one but I don’t use painters tape anymore, just print right on the bed. Everything sticks fine although I’m not sure I like ABS for people. Anyhow, I have been meaning to post files of my people if anyone wants to play with them or 3d print. I use Makehuman to create them, Blender to pose em, Netfabb to seal the ‘holes’ and Cura to slice them for my Creality Ender 3. Almost all of these files are originals but I may have a few things I downloaded from thingiverse.com or something like that in there, they are just dumps of my 3d folders.
There are two zips, one has the blender files which are the ‘source’ files. You can load these into Blender and pose and sculpt them in various ways, then export them into stl or obj files for printing, that file is here:
The other one has already processed files, exported from blender ready to be loaded into a slicer for 3d printing. That zip is here:
Finally finished up my Burnley Station Town. General Store, Post Office, a Farm and Trailer Park.
I seem to have a lot of time on my hands so I decided to construct a country store for my little town of Burnley out on the Layout. This combines the basic construction method I’ve come up with using the CNC with some 3D printed detail parts I got off of https://www.thingiverse.com/
Everything is colored with rattle can spray paint and the details and sign were printed on my good ole HP Photosmart ink jet. Generous amounts of matte spray (clear) finish were applied to the structure and each of the posters and signs. It got it’s first steady rain last night and still looks crisp, we will see how hard the weather is on it over the next few months.
Finished (more or less) my farmhouse cottage and a small barn. These will go into the Burnley area on my layout. The Barn needs some outside lighting and a few details, the house is all wired up but needs to have the windows frosted.
Newest building – the Proffit Yard Office. I’m building a new town just for this fellow.
My new Farmhouse. All of the infrastructure was cut out on my 3D router using .060 and .120 sheet styrene. The siding and windows are resin castings. Not quite finished, still needs some details and lighting but it’s almost there.
Finished off the grocery store. Well, almost. It’s hooked up to power out in Gilbert, but it sorely needs an interior with those big windows. Also the interior lighting is bulbs, way too yellow for my tastes so that will be replaced. The ‘neon’ sign came out ok but it was bitch to get together, lots of little fragments of EL wire.
I also got this little rail truck together. Made from an off the shelf kit and a little ‘robot’ transmission I got from pololu.com. Does ok, good speed but a bit noisy. The flanges on the wheels are not quite right, too square. It does well on straight runs but jumps off the track when going over a switch. Oh well, more engineering to get it tweaked right.
So here is the General Store/Grocery for Gilbert. This is from an older design I originally did in wood. Alas, the wooden one fell apart pretty quickly in the elements so I made this one from styrene sheet using the same patterns. More or less.
This is only the shell, I will need some detailed lighting and an interior with all that glass on the front, looks pretty ridiculous empty like that, eh? But I plan for this to be the centerpiece of Gilbert so it needs some work. A neon sign perhaps, lots of lights. A small parking area.
Here is a video of the router cutting out some of this:
My new building. Everything is cut from sheet styrene on my Probotix X90. I do love this machine and working with styrene. It cuts like butter and you only have to run the router at about 7600 rpm so it’s pretty quiet.
Anyhow, this is a tower sort of depot near the south end of my bridge. It’s on stilts, With all the windows I’m going to have to make a decent interior, frosting the windows is not really an option I don’t think. Work in Progress as is everything.