Two thoughts on your post. 1) The coming 3D printing revolution will make small volume scales much eaier to model. (TT and S come to mind, but also 160/1 British N rather than 144/1 N, etc.)
Two thoughts on your post.
1) The coming 3D printing revolution will make small volume scales much eaier to model. (TT and S come to mind, but also 160/1 British N rather than 144/1 N, etc.)
I'd use a 3D printed master and then use one of the many table top plastic injection molding machines to make parts using epoxy molds which hold up very well into the 200 cast parts per mold. 3D printing is to slow for production runs, even 100 or less. 3d is great for making a master though.
Bernd
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I have been working with TT scale since I bought a Tri-Ang (British) TT scale collection at a train show about ten years ago. I started out collecting European TT for a few years, then a chance eBay auction win on some North American TT trains got me hooked on North American TT modeling. I have tried my hand at building cars from scratch and liked it.
I even setup my sparsely landscaped layout at the 2013 National Train Show in Atlanta, GA and plan to try to make it to the 2018 National Train Show in Kansas City, Missouri with a better layout and display.
So many scales, so many trains, so little time.....