SCC - Sparkshot Custom Creations

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Re: SCC - Sparkshot Custom Creations

Postby Knuckles » Fri Sep 27, 2019 8:52 pm

Thanks, the 3000 Gallon one although may do more too.

Caley ones look good, especially in that primer.
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Re: SCC - Sparkshot Custom Creations

Postby Knuckles » Tue Oct 01, 2019 10:16 am

CR 812 4mm Body Shells: I'm now ready to accept 3D print orders for those whom it may interest. :) Riveted and non riveted, also specify 00, EM or P4 as the cab splashers are set accordingly. Chassis and tenders are still in development but for now the bodies are available. Will finish off the 652 bodies too.

https://twitter.com/KnucklesSCC/status/ ... 2699688961

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Quick render for painted impression.
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As a reminder: For those of you in various online places who have expressed confusion and wonderment as to why I set out to make the 812 when there is a brass kit and an RTR model coming along;

as said before, ultimately I want to build 4 of these so it's a lot cheaper for me to do my own, on top of that the plan has been in my mind for around a decade so it isn't anything new.

Further more, I can re-scale these up or down if there is any interest so from my perspective it makes perfect sense. :thumb

Note: Considering Dave Bradwell's view on the boiler bands I have reduced them to 0.1mm as seen in the photographs which although a tad over-scale still, are closer than what a lot were, previously at 0.2mm. Making them much smaller will likely render them mushy on the prints.
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Re: SCC - Sparkshot Custom Creations

Postby Lindsay G » Tue Oct 01, 2019 12:11 pm

I'd limit portrayal to LMS or BR days as round headed rivets, dogs on the smokebox door, and lamp irons (other than on the top of the smokebox and cab sides) were not features in the Caley era.

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Re: SCC - Sparkshot Custom Creations

Postby Knuckles » Tue Oct 01, 2019 12:56 pm

Yeah I know, this is just a quick render to give an impression, not an attempt to show an accurate combination. You'll also see I didn't finish all the livery details for the same reason. A nice blue and white render looks better than boring black.

The body comes in riveted or non riveted form and there are 3 smokebox types; no lip, lip and lip with dogs as in the render.

Lamp irons are not modelled on the smokebox top as it'd foul the rivets for the printing tolerance thicknesses needed for a resin lamp iron. I'd expect these to be cut off and replaced by etches from most anyway.

I have swapped the safety valve and bunged a number on and painted it black. Again, just for a quick impression.
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Re: SCC - Sparkshot Custom Creations

Postby Mike Garwood » Tue Oct 01, 2019 6:55 pm

Fair play Gav...that looks superb!

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Re: SCC - Sparkshot Custom Creations

Postby Knuckles » Tue Oct 01, 2019 7:02 pm

Thanks, Mike.

Apart from a few things I'm still part way designing will be taking a break from new stuff as I am bottle necked with a few half completed 3D print loco's on the desk. Built another HL gearbox today for one. (55 minutes, not bad) Must get them finished. Want some nice new shiny pics and loco's finished fully for the new layout/s. :)

Loft work is still slowly going forward in preparation for the next layouts although at a trickle, roof still leaking although we have almost sorted it.
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Re: SCC - Sparkshot Custom Creations

Postby Knuckles » Wed Nov 13, 2019 5:23 pm

As well as working on the 812 tender and other bits, also doing a few commissions,

Progress on the USA Scotty is coming along nicely, ultimately it is being done as the client wants a H0 model but it's agreed to release things in 4mm too.

https://twitter.com/KnucklesSCC/status/ ... 7358447618
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Re: SCC - Sparkshot Custom Creations

Postby Knuckles » Tue Dec 03, 2019 2:26 pm


https://www.shapeways.com/shops/sparksh ... enders&s=0

3.5mm H0 Scotty is released.  4mm one following in a day or two once everything is uploaded.

On the Photon can print everything bar the loco bodies at around 50% of the price although I haven't yet calculated the costs exactly but roughly that.

Loco bodies are a Shapeways only purchase currently due to the Photon being a smaller machine.  Will be buying a 2nd one soon.

 4mm Versions released.
https://www.shapeways.com/shops/sparksh ... enders&s=0

 https://twitter.com/KnucklesSCC/status/1201869233791131650

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Now where is that 812 tender I was working on...and the 2-4-0 Broad Victoria, and the...and the......Yeah.....

 

Need 20 hands. :thumb
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Re: SCC - Sparkshot Custom Creations

Postby Knuckles » Thu Mar 26, 2020 4:55 pm

Caledonian 812 TENDERS now available in 4mm!



Photon 3D Prints for bodies are £32 + postage, chassis Shapeways only (FUD/SFDP) & there are double pack offers for the whole sets too, bit pricey though.



If this interests please share.



For Photon orders email sparkshot082@gmail.com

for everything else

https://www.shapeways.com/shops/sparksh ... ilways&s=0



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Also have two Anycubic Photon's now, much easier!
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Re: SCC - Sparkshot Custom Creations

Postby Knuckles » Thu Apr 16, 2020 11:52 am

“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.” Thomas Paine

https://www.sparkshotcustomcreations.com/
Mostly 3D Printed Loco kits etc.

SCC Price list (7/4/22)
https://www.sparkshotcustomcreations.co ... e77d42.pdf

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Re: SCC - Sparkshot Custom Creations

Postby nberrington » Thu Apr 16, 2020 12:53 pm

Those look smashing. Decent price here in Canada. I might grab a couple of the Midland wagons.

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Re: SCC - Sparkshot Custom Creations

Postby Guy Rixon » Thu Apr 16, 2020 12:59 pm

Do you have photos of the wagon prints?

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Re: SCC - Sparkshot Custom Creations

Postby Knuckles » Thu Apr 16, 2020 1:47 pm

I got some photo's of the S scale prints in FUD/SFDP.

Printed some on the Photon too although I'm not entirely happy with the anoying line that insists on forming on these wagons when printed on Photon which is why for now they are just on Shapeways.

Will upload in 5 or so minutes.
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Re: SCC - Sparkshot Custom Creations

Postby Knuckles » Thu Apr 16, 2020 2:12 pm

These are the S scale ones in Shapeways FXD/SFDP

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This last one is also S scale but the one below is a Photon print that after a wee rub slapped some paint on.
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Photon Prints, can't remember if 4mm or S although the results are almost identical, they turn out pretty good although they sometimes have an annoying line on the side that needs rubbing out. Happens a lot with large flat panels, not so bad if the panel is big but with plank detail a bit awkward. Can print them if it interests though.

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Re: SCC - Sparkshot Custom Creations

Postby nberrington » Thu Apr 16, 2020 4:16 pm

Ah, the loathsome fibreglass brush.....

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Re: SCC - Sparkshot Custom Creations

Postby Guy Rixon » Thu Apr 16, 2020 7:26 pm

Thanks. So it looks like you have patterning on the sides of the SW prints, but not so much on the ends? That's what I was expecting.

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Re: SCC - Sparkshot Custom Creations

Postby Knuckles » Thu Apr 16, 2020 7:53 pm

Cleaning up 3D prints in areas is fairly normal though. Until we get to injection moulded quality it'll be the norm.

Those pics are from 2018 so modern prints might be different now. It's the usual orientation factor no doubt.

It's the 3 plank that looks the worst there. Bit of a scrub would sort it.

As FXD/SFDP prints go these are some of the best I've seen.

What concerns you here?
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Re: SCC - Sparkshot Custom Creations

Postby Tony Wilkins » Thu Apr 16, 2020 9:28 pm

I have to say that I am quite impressed with the results. The S scale wagons look particularly good, but the translucent material reminds me of some ancient ERG kits for LNER riveted mineral wagons that I once built and needed several layers of paint to hide the see through look.
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Re: SCC - Sparkshot Custom Creations

Postby Knuckles » Fri Apr 17, 2020 12:40 pm

They also have a rather interesting Marzipan onk to them when new. :D


Regarding the 4 recently uploaded wagons, I've been talking in PM to Compound2632 on RMweb who's very kindly spend considerable time unearthing some extra information.  Based on that, with these two....



https://www.shapeways.com/product/PKHMJ ... 7&li=shops

https://www.shapeways.com/product/N5QUS ... 9&li=shops



I've added the following notes to the descriptions:



Notes: These 4mm ones have been altered slightly from the initial CADs in that the number plates always appear on the right hand side as you observe the wagon.  Some details had to be thickened slightly or left out entirely due to 3D printing tolerances and design choices of over-scale visibility when the commission was taking place. 
Also some of the inside bolts that would be countersunk have been made as protrusions so there is at least some representation of visibility, feel free to file them off.
Normal concessions although feel free to view the CAD in the 3D viewer, top right of the images.
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Re: SCC - Sparkshot Custom Creations

Postby Guy Rixon » Fri Apr 17, 2020 5:41 pm

Knuckles wrote:Cleaning up 3D prints in areas is fairly normal though. Until we get to injection moulded quality it'll be the norm.

Those pics are from 2018 so modern prints might be different now. It's the usual orientation factor no doubt.

It's the 3 plank that looks the worst there. Bit of a scrub would sort it.

As FXD/SFDP prints go these are some of the best I've seen.

What concerns you here?


I agree that they came out very well for SFDP. I'm not criticising them. What I'm after is hints on whether it's now safe to model vehicles with vertical sides at SW, or whether they need to be flat-packed, as I've been assuming. I'm encouraged by your results, but I think it's a change in degree, not a complete change in process as the patterning can still just be seen.

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Re: SCC - Sparkshot Custom Creations

Postby Knuckles » Fri Apr 17, 2020 7:01 pm

Ok, thanks for clarifying. :thumb
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Re: SCC - Sparkshot Custom Creations

Postby Knuckles » Fri Jul 17, 2020 3:23 pm


Greetings all.   

I'm hardly the first to do this and probably won't be the last, however, I've kindly been commissioned by someone to design the 04 Drewry Diesel to give the tram way variations.  As it's a loco I've always admired I didn't say no!  It is both for the usual conversion parts for a Bachmann RTR model and a full body shell.  Here then are some Tweets showing the current progress. 

First test prints parts are plonked on the deck for effect, windows were too low at the front:
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The corrected the windows, they may be a tad high now but will address things closer the end:
https://twitter.com/KnucklesSCC/status/ ... 4426620931

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Once done and ready there will be two cabs to choose from, one with slightly higher rear windows.

Side Plates and Cowcatchers...or Moo punchers as I like to call them.  Those bits are for conversions, then full bodyshells also.
https://twitter.com/KnucklesSCC/status/ ... 4392384512

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We're probably 90% there now, mostly needs more rivets, chimney, steps, hand rails finishing off, holes for hand rail pillars, front lamps, radiator grill, foot grips on running plate and a few other bits.   As I'm sure you can see though, not too much to do.  

 

 

 

 


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Re: SCC - Sparkshot Custom Creations

Postby Noel » Fri Jul 17, 2020 5:37 pm

Early Class 04 had bonnet handrails in four sections, with a pillar at each end as the four sections were separate, corresponding to the doors, and with pillars no thicker than the handrails themselves. The first batch did not have the small handrail at the top of the radiator side, but did have a large vertical handrail on the radiator side, extending above and below the door louvres. Most of the others did have the small handrail, but it is higher up the bonnet than the main set, and may have been a later addition to the second batch.

The oblong front windows were only on the first batch, D2200-3 [11100-3], but these started with the exhaust level with the top of the bonnet, and later were given stovepipe exhausts. I don't think they ever carried the later tapered exhaust. There were examples in the second batch which carried skirts as well, and these did have tapered exhausts, but the cab front windows were extended downwards as with all later batches. The steps, both front and rear, had a solid backing on the first batch and only one with the cut-out in the front of the footplate ever carried skirts, and that quite late.

Class 04 are a bit of a nightmare to get right, as there are at least three cab versions, three different wheel diameters, two different radiator sizes, whistle or horn, two which did not have vacuum brake [both in the first batch, D2200/1, I think], at least three types of buffers [the first batch had round ones larger than later batches, while some at least of the second batch had what looks like a cropped version of the large round type], two different arrangements of bonnet handrails, two different front buffer beams [those on the first batch are the shallower type], footplates with and without front cut-outs, and possibly other differences.

Sorry to rain on your parade, but I thought you would probably want to know now rather than later.
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Re: SCC - Sparkshot Custom Creations

Postby Knuckles » Fri Jul 17, 2020 7:02 pm

I see no rain, just extra info to help get things accurate. It's appreciated.

As I'm doing this as a commission I'll pass this information on and we can discuss things more.

I agree that getting every combination perfect can be awkward, is like that on every build though.
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Re: SCC - Sparkshot Custom Creations

Postby Knuckles » Fri Aug 21, 2020 6:17 pm

04 Drewry Diesel – 3D Prints released!
Full bodyshells and conversion parts for a Wisbech & Upwell, and also ‘Mavis’ representation.

This project has resulted in me kindly being commissioned by Tom’ Waddell to certain specifications.
A Bachmann 04 was lent to me and the task was to make Cowcastchers, Sideplates and an earlier cab that can slot in to the Bachmann model with separate lamps to add to the cab after wasp stripe painting/transferring has been completed. As the base model was on loan the sides and details were not filed down to give the Sideplates a flush fit as I didn’t want to ruin the clients’ model.
You’ll have to simulate a completed finish with your mind, here it’s posed with blue-tack.
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Also afterwards full shells were made, quite a lot of prototypes were done before I was happy with all the chassis fixings and quality of finish.

You can use a Bachmann split chassis 04 or Bachmann 03 DCC ready chassis, designed to self-tap the resin, many prototypes were gone through before the correct settings were found, around 7 or 8. Usually can do things in 1 or 2 attempts but not this time. :D
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The bodies turned out well but much better with thick side-plates printed separately, here is a final 3D printed example model minus cab and other details after a quick spray of paint:
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Here are some CAD pictures of the Stove Pipe version, you can also not fit the chimney and have just the round base for it instead:
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Here are some CAD pictures of the Saxa chimney fitted. I’m aware this chimney with the early cab isn’t likely to be a real world example but it fits the way the character ‘Mavis’ was depicted in the Railway Series books so that will suit a few of us. You can also use the Bachmann later cab with this chimney type for a later real world example. This later cab may be created soon, undecided yet.
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On the non-Shapeways version of the 3D prints the side grab rails have had to be thickened up to fit their printing tolerances, similarly the ‘skittle’ shaped grab rails above the steps have had to be omitted and also the foot grip detail on the running plate. Initially I tried to upload the model to Shapeways with the foot grip detail but the file size was too big for it to be allowed. These finer details are thus reserved for the direct SCC purchase options.
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In time other combinations of cabs and body detail variations may be created but for now this is what’s on offer.
With the Shapeways options these are mostly complete shells to help reduce costs, the SCC directly printed ones are in more parts.
Shapeways 04 Drewry Options:
https://www.shapeways.com/shops/sparksh ... Diesel&s=0
For ordering direct 3D prints please email: sparkshot082@gmail.com
Direct prices for the 3D prints:
Cabs, £12
Cowcatchers £6
Thin Sides-plates £8
Thick Side-plates with steps £14 (slightly longer, you’ll have to file more detail on a Bachmann model to fit as these are instead designed for the directly printed SCC 04 bodyshells.

Full bodyshells £44.89
These include a choice of 03 or 04 chassis fixings and Saxa or Stove Pipe funnel options, please specify which. If you’d like to model the locomotive without a funnel you’ll need the Stove Pipe option and just not fit it on. The Saxa options have their funnels pre-fitted.
With this you’ll get the main body, separate cab, separate lamps, separate thick side-skirts and separate cowcatchers. (Separate funnel also if ordering Stove Pipe version)
Postage Rates:
Within UK £5
Outside Most Places £10
Canada £13
USA £17
For a long time I have been getting away with charging a flat rate of £10 for outside UK orders but recently, especially for USA it’s gone up a lot sadly. Found out the hard way one day!

Not every combination of the 04 has been made and most of what was made were to the clients’ requirements so in time there may be more. For now though, this is what we have, please share this around if you like it.

I will be creating a tutorial video series on YouTube showing and walking you through my own build of the Diesel all the way to completion but not for a few weeks at least.

Thanks for reading :thumb

YouTube video showing a lot more pictures and explanations of the refinement process:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okfvYWbEQNg

Will be filming and doing a tutorial video soon.
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