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[mxwelder]

Kieth is a really nice chap with loads of info in the staem modelling building and repairing.
This is his series on a more advanced version of the Simplex.
Spoke to him a few times on the fone and he also sees the model engineering fraternity getting smaller and smaller as there is no encouragement from people in it to expand.
http://4472flyingscotsman.co.uk/videos// Flying Scot build.
This is a link to the 2-10-0 Evening Star in 5 inch gauge. https://www.youtube.com/@no23mk2

 

[Fidlstyks]

I have been looking at this for some time too. A man near by has a brother with a 3D printer. He had a hog oiler printed in scale.
What I need to know is if one has an engine that has a block and crankcase 34" tall and wants to make a 1/4 scale of it, how is it copied?
And it must be split, how do you print it in halves?
I think he went around it with a wand, and it printed. I loaded it here. Amazing, I think it is all one piece.
I want to copy several things. Mostly scale models of hit and miss engines.

 

[Propforward]

That's a matter of manipulating the scanned model - which I can do. First of all, someone has to scan the real thing with a 3D scanner. The resulting file then goes to someone like me, a dashing, handsome, suave and sophisticated person with skill, wit and charm, and more importantly some high end 3D CAD, and then the scanned file is cleaned up, and scaled as needed, split into pieces as needed and appropriate files for a 3D printer (or casting patterns - mold patterns - whatever) - are made. That understates it - the clean-up step can be quite time intensive.

 

[Fidlstyks]

I make wood and aluminum patterns. But am always open to newer ideas.