1:87 NZR LPA Wagon Download

 Simple design of a 1:87 NZR LPA Wagon I drew up for my brothers NZR HO layout.

Should be able to make a decent rake quite cheaply, this file can be found here if you want to try it out for yourself. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5441795

Designed for Hornby wheels & Kadee couplers. Body and chassis should friction fit together.

1-87 R class

 This weekends project is mainly revolving around the R class single Fairlie articulated locomotive, i'm using a rather basic plan that at least shows the pivot points. last night before finding some good pictures I drew up & 3d printed a basic shell to work out what's possible in terms of fitting a small motor & worm using an HO diesel truck drive & trickery. The rear wheels were taken from a hornby 4-4-0 I purchased on special specifically to try out the TTS sound chip which now resides in my 1:24 pecket. The rear wheels both pickup track power, just need to produce the side frames & bogie mount point.

Donor chassis mid surgery

1:87 50ft Car

 1:87 50ft Car, is a design of Neil Ward's https://www.nwmodelworks.com/ so if you're interested in owning your own model check him out, my printer is not as high quality as Neil's so what you see shouldn't represent his fine models. Anyway, I've stripped down the details, thickened the walls & further split the roof as to be printed separately. The seats i've printed on a "floor" that is glued to the chassis and acts as a grip for the main body shell that can easily be removed since it's held only by friction. The intent is to create a train for dad and brother david's ho layouts. 1st test car shown has a more basic chassis and an early take on the bogies. The ventilators are halfway finished but glazing done. Just need wheels, couplers and maybe a pacific or light mountain chassis for the steamer to haul it.

In the early hours of the morning a second shell emerges. 

Pre abrasion therapy the second shell is pretty clean considering the cheaper abs and worn printhead.

On the third day a third shell emerged into at least slightly more light.

On the 6th day he finally got the paint colour about right. I'm upgrading my brothers 30ft van body & soon chassis as his one is rather out of scale only ever so slightly but still enough to annoy me.

1:87 Ud well wagon Download

Not quite happy with the first UD wagon, mainly with the light weight when empty. I've been meaning to do something about this for years so the result is cutting everything into sections so I can print everything flat and not rely on support material getting in the way. I've found some metal weights from an american HO wagon shell that fit lengthwise wonderfully so I omitted that section from the wagon. Under 5 hours of time @ 0.15 using cheapo ABS & $2 of printer material to print each wagon parts.

The model can be downloaded for free here https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5449098

Had to stop myself at 3 and with only 5 ever existing it seems a shame, but onto more interesting things. Still need to add a couple minor details.

I tried printing on my UP Box small handbrake wheels, these details would be ideal to produce on a resin printer but until then they look ok from 3 feet away.

Since my brother runs some frateshi stuff I've put the frateshi couplers on 2 of the wagons that can be arranged to function as transition cars when needed.

1:87 Modern

 Showing off some more 1:87 3d printed 'closer to completed' models. The DXR chassis was redesigned to accommodate the frateshi motor block & bogies. The painting process is about to begin but still waiting on a few more diesel shells to be reprinted after alot of internal debate about true, semi scale & considerations. I guess you could call this a fine balance between what looks right and functionality. Anyway, the dxr body pictured is the third attempt and im quite happy with the result. The Ef now has correct detail but needs to be enlarged so its scale to my "frateshi format".

I also designed the Zg wagon according to a blueprint from the NZ model railway Journal october 1999 magazine using the Zh shape as a general starting point. I was handed a box of old beaten up HO stuff including a front end loader (pictured) so I quickly went about 3d printing my UD wagon with small modifications to the bogie regarding coupler mounting points.

HO Zh Wagon Download

The Zh was todays task, 1:87 scale and coated with primer. designed to be printed on its end, vertically and the ends separately. The bogie/truck holsters will be done separately depending on the bogie.  

For those with a 3d printer and want to produce a cheap train for yourself in HO to go with the frateshi stuff then this wagon can be found here. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5412149

Desperately need my decal printing up and running.

1:87 Zp Wagon

While wondering what to use the remaining half KG of filament I think wagons for my brother couldn't hurt, and what's more NZR than a good ol ZP box car. I cut off the ends so I could print vertically and without any supports alongside the 2 end pieces, then printing 20 ventilators I glued them on one at a time. It was this point I realize I should have printed the Za, Zh or Zm, anything without the ventilators! Given the small size I found removing the parts from the "raft" created small dents, mini hide & seek adventures.. I did draw up some detail brackets, ferry hooks & smaller details but will wait for the Pla filament to arrive. Just need to organize HO bogies, decent couplers & a 0.5mm drill & wire from the good man Peter at Constellation hobbies on the Shore in Auckland.