Le Corbusier wrote: If this level of lining is acceptable for you, then it might be worth an experiment
Surely it would be acceptable to anyone? Some very good advice re practising too.
Le Corbusier wrote: If this level of lining is acceptable for you, then it might be worth an experiment
Daddyman wrote:Le Corbusier wrote: If this level of lining is acceptable for you, then it might be worth an experiment
Surely it would be acceptable to anyone?
Daddyman wrote:People have problems with clogging in Bob Moore pens, but there are enough good results out there to show that they can work with the right consistency.
Le Corbusier wrote:just seen the price of a Bob Moore lining pen on the Phoenix/Precision web site must be completely out of touch .... thank the lord for junk shops and fettling old bow pens Can you vary the thickness on a Moore pen, or do you need multiple pens similar to the old rotring drafting pens?
Paul Willis wrote: But there is an alternative that seems identical in construction and operation - the Easi-liner. It is also under half the cost!
Bob Moore: https://www.phoenix-paints.co.uk/products/lining-and-sundries/moore
Easi-Liner: http://www.mylocosound.co.uk/?page_id=12
The easi-liner doesn't seem as well "engineered" e.g. it doesn't seem to have a screw-adjustable ball-jointed head angle. But in principle, I don't see why it shouldn't deliver just as good results - the fundamental mechanism seems the same. I say that without trying one, so this advice is worth what you paid for it, but to me the set looks like being worth a punt.
Neil Smith wrote:Hi Paul
Word of warning, there have been posts on here saying the Easy Liner's narrowest line is still too wide for 4mm work. For example see this thread including 3rd post down from Jol Wilkinson...
viewtopic.php?f=17&t=5807&p=60185
All the best
Neil
What if you printed a flat inner ceiling joined to the roof proper at the sides and with one or two length wise ribs connecting the two? With any luck, it would form a pretty rigid structure.Guy Rixon wrote:...Initial tests were favourable: the etched ends of the coaches are true half-ellipses, making it easy-ish to draw up the roofs. It was also possible to print in situ all the roof furniture, including the rain-strips (I hate adding these from separate strip), a better approximation of the gutters, and versions of the lamp tops and ventilators that please my eye. The big problem was warping: one end of each test-print wanted to curl up.
A little reading showed that resin prints are counter-intuitive: they curl most readily when thick slabs are included and stay flat when all the parts are thin. Apparently it's to do with different curing rates of the resin. My curly roofs were solid slabs with embossed detail. I changed them to annular ellipses with bracing and they then printed without distortion. Allegedly, no wall in a resin print should be more than 2 mm thick, and I made the structural roof 1.5 mm...
Guy Rixon wrote:Will L wrote:What if you printed a flat inner ceiling joined to the roof proper at the sides and with one or two length wise ribs connecting the two? With any luck, it would form a pretty rigid structure.Guy Rixon wrote:...Initial tests were favourable: the etched ends of the coaches are true half-ellipses, making it easy-ish to draw up the roofs. It was also possible to print in situ all the roof furniture, including the rain-strips (I hate adding these from separate strip), a better approximation of the gutters, and versions of the lamp tops and ventilators that please my eye. The big problem was warping: one end of each test-print wanted to curl up.
A little reading showed that resin prints are counter-intuitive: they curl most readily when thick slabs are included and stay flat when all the parts are thin. Apparently it's to do with different curing rates of the resin. My curly roofs were solid slabs with embossed detail. I changed them to annular ellipses with bracing and they then printed without distortion. Allegedly, no wall in a resin print should be more than 2 mm thick, and I made the structural roof 1.5 mm...
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