Station Building Creation in OO Gauge and O Gauge 3D Prints
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- The Model Railway Station platform has looked very bare, adding a station building was something that had been on the projects list for quite some time.
Bewdley on the Severn Valley Railway was the inspiration for the project and so we set off to 3D model and print th building.
Richard from NewJunction also recieved one of these but in O gauge for his Garden Model railway, both the OO gauge and O Gauge buildings have been featured in April 2022 Issue 178 of 'HORNBY Magazine' which I am very proud to see them in there.
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This is simply the best model building I have seen for a long time. The time taken and the detail put in was well worth it. You should be extremely proud of what you achieved. I could look at this all day, simply beautiful
Thank you Mik! thats great that you like it!
I could be wrong but I remember reading that during WW2 corner bricks of many "public" buildings were painted white so that during blackout people could walk around without bumping into them.
As an old American stone/brick mason; we added these quoin corners. The ones we did measured about 16" x 8 to 12 inches high and were projeced from the wall line by about 1/2 to 3/4 inches. Great modeling job on your station. Please keep up the good work. Gerry Drewes
Lovely model, looks superb! The band around the building between the ground and first floors is called the string course. The shafts and spikey bits in the centre of the gables are together called hipknobs (the spikey bits themselves are finials and the decorative shafts are called pendants). The wooden boards on the gables are called bargeboards.
The white bricks at the corners are painted to resemble quoins although I don't think they ought to be called quoins. Quoins are normally made of either stone or plaster and usually sit proud of the wall, whereas here they are just normal bricks that have been painted.
You'll often find a glossary of architectural terms at the back of decent general architectural guides, sometimes with helpful diagrams. 'Pevsner's Architectural Glossary' is a good overview which will cover almost anything you ever want to know. You may be able to find information on individual buildings in 'The Buildings of England' series (each county has its own volume) although Pevsner tends to concentrate more on churches and buildings he considers significant.
This book may be of interest to you also given your love of the GWR. Unfortunately I've not read it so can't give an opinion on how good it is:
www.bluebell-railway.com/product/great-western-railway-architecture-in-colour/
Thanks for posting the video, the model looks wonderful!
Thank you so much for that excellent informative comment. I will look at getting some books so I can learn a bit more so the buildings improve. Take care!
Finials, they are the pointy things on the gable ends
Thank you!
When I was a child I always played with the famous Lego, I loved building beautiful houses and small buildings (I have never forgotten the emotions that this gave me), today as an adult I continue to search for these things, these memories. Seeing your videos, and the passion you put into all your work, I am thrilled with everything I see.
When painting brick buildings I always use the sponge technique, I find that it creates a nice random pattern to the bricks and applying washes dulls the colours down and ages it. I always start with a white base coat for the mortar.
That makes sence, I’ll keep practicing and see what I learn 😊
The cornerstones are called quoins. They can be structural reinforcement or as in this case ornamental or decorative.
It derives from Middle English use of the word coin in the sense of cornerstone or wedge.
Thanks for another fascinating video of your creative process Tris.
Thank you very much for that informative comment 😊
Also used for sight at night for a lot of people. You see white painted rock at the side of driveways and its the same here for a visual effect
@@mikparker2572 good point. In more recent times reflective types of paint are increasingly used on signs and line markings. For many years now there have been experiments with stippled road side lines on highways and expressways to create a disturbing sound to wake drivers who fall asleep at the wheel. Hasn’t been universally adopted however and I haven’t spoken to a road engineer in some time so as to find out why. Many cars now have systems that warn when a driver drifts from their lane or is detected getting some shuteye, perhaps that is a more optimal solution.
Probably in amongst the comments already, so apologies. Pointy bits are finials. My first thought on the corner white bricks was… it was representing rusticated stonework. It does look nice, and at full scale (the real world), it would make the corner visible for safety. Either way, very pleasing to the eye. Our predecessors really put a lot of thought into the style and appearance of station buildings, canopies, footbridges, signal boxes, level crossings… That’s got me thinking. The one thing that says model railway to me, and has from an early age, is a level crossing. Amazing work Neil!
Thank you very much! Yes modern buildings don't get as much style these days, I am sure there are some exceptions though.
Truly impressive results. Using tile grout for mortar is a brilliant idea - that is a trick that could also be used with Plastikard as well as 3D prints.
Thank you very much. You can use Tile grout in many areas I hope you get to have ago with it.
Creme de la creme Tris. You are indeed a talented young man. You could drive yourself barmy and add lead flashings to the Chimney. valleys and roof/vertical brick walls. Try aluminium foil cut into strips for the flashings. You can mold/dress the foil around the tile step. Paint grey. You have the patienceof Job. All the very best Tris. I love your work.
Thank you Martin, thats a good idea some foil. Maybe oneday but I will practice on somethign else first.
Brilliant vlog, for your info the "pointy bits" on the roof are called Finials. I look forward to your next vlog😃
Thank you Andrew!
I cannot tell you how impressed I am with your model and the processes you went through in creating it. Well done. Well done indeed.
Thank you Nigel I really appreciate what you have said.
In a word BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you Gregory 😊
The buildings where they have larger stone corners are called ‘Quoins’. Apparently the same on a brick building. Awesome detail.
Thank you
Congrats on featuring in the magazine again, Tris!
Thank you Jade
Looks fantastic tris lovely little station
Thank you very much 😊
What an amazing building. Well done, your work is first class, the best I've ever seen in all my years of railway modeling. Well done again.
Thank you very much Martin 😊
Wow , fantastic building, great 3D printing, nicely finished , the 0 gauge one looks brilliant, your 00 building, brings your layout to life 👍
Thank you Chris 😊 I’m looking forward to getting the rest of the layout up to the same level so it starts looking nice.
That is a very nice model Sir, the brick detail is incredible, on first glance I thought it was a printed paper kit but no, you painted it all by hand. Wow. Very nice!
Thank you Bob! Glad you like it!
A suggestion for picking out individually coloured bricks, it’s only taken me about 30 years to try it, as similar to you, I would mix off shades of brick red, then pick out individual bricks with a fine brush.
Today, I paint on the base layers of brick reds/oranges, then use cheap felt tip pens what kids use for colouring, the colours can be translucent on top of the brick coloured paint, so only tinting the bricks rather than having a build up of paint.
I have some buildings where I used this method around four years ago, and the felt tip ink doesn’t seem to have been affected with occasional handling.
Always love seeing your stuff make a cameo on Richard's channel
It is nice to make an appearance on there 😁
I forgot to mention what a wonderful Station Building you printed and painted superbly.
Thank you Martin
Fantastic. The true station is quite aesthetically pleasing, and your models came out very nice- a testament to the time and effort- and perfectionism. Cheers!
Thank you Anthony. Thank you for the kind comment 😊
That's a brilliant model. Beautifully painted.
Thank you very much!
Hi Tris, I really enjoy watching you work on creating you’re railway. It seems nothing phases you and the results are usually top draw. Excellent and I have taken some inspiration from the brick painting for my own models (when I get the urge again!!).. Thanks for sharing, Chris
Hey Chris! I'm glad I bring you some inspiration. I hope you find time to enjoy the hobby soon. Thank you very much for your comment
Great building
Thank you very much!
Very nicely done Tris, the station looks amazing, you are coming on leaps and bounds with your painting and weathering from your earlier vids and comments. Well worth all the hard work you've put into designing the building, Richard's look amazing, will watch his vid on it. All the best, take care. Brian @ The Angels
Thank you Brian. It’s nice to look back and see my progress. I hope it will keep going and that I keep learning. Thank you for your kind comment 😊 take care
You are an artist indeed..let's see more...
I personally don't like the white paint on the corners. Now I presume that this was applied during the war. To help people. So they didn't walk into it.
You have done an excellent job replicating the original. Very well done.
The buildings looks superb they’ve come out so well and the wealth of detail you’ve put on them really stands out. Thanks for sharing your hard work
These models are just incredible, the detail and finish...wow. I think this is the future of some or a lot of model making. It is as good as your designs are, which is excellent. I've been making architectural models for a lot of my life (trained in architecture but now a dreaded T & C Planner) it takes a lot of effort and skill, plus time to build models like this from scratch. Lots of folk have told you the correct architecture terms, one small thing...look for different types of brick binding. Your brilliant models have use stretcher bond, I.e. mostly the long side (stetcher), some will use Flemish bond...small part (header) and the a stretcher in alternating pattern. All fun to do and looks good. Carry on your model making Tris, you've got a bright future in this excellent and absorbing hobby of model railways. Cheers Tim F.
Thank you very much for your glowing comment it was lovely to read. I will look up the different brick patterns as I have noticed them on the buildings. I'll have to factor it into some of my other buildings that I do. I agree 3D printing will play a big role in the hobby in the years to come.
Take care
Tris
Great job Tris 👍
Thank you Warren!
What a great video! I thoroughly enjoyed seeing that building come together and SVR is now added to my list of places to visit. I admire your patience not only with the model making but also the filming, commentary and overall video production. Thanks for sharing Tris. Always a pleasure to watch. Roy.
Thank you Roy 😊 Your trip to the SVR will not be waisted as its a wonderful place to go. Thank you fro your kind words about the video iot means alot to hear it. Take care Roy 😊
an amazing looking station Tris! im very jealous of your skills! it really pulls the station area together more!
That building looks so good especially in 0 Gauge, fantastic work, it really is superb buddy
Andy
Thank you Andy, I'm glad you like it
Absolutely awesome build and paint job. I may have a go at one of these. Great video and well narrated.👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Finials is the word you're looking for for the spikey bits.
Thank you!
Wow ur a true artist. Pretty is my fav word.
Brilliant work, a gorgeous station!
Thank you Richard 😊
@@OONeal a pleasure.
Wonderful work.
Thank you Colin 😊
Tremendous work Tris, well done. I really enjoyed the work and hats off to you fella!
Regards
Steve
Thank you Steve!
It looks fantastic bud. I’ve just started with 3d printing myself, great fun, havent got to the stage of designing buildings yet though.
Great stuff !
Very impressive Station building I have also seen the article in the Hornby mag
Thank you 😊
Beautiful !!
Great job all round, very realistic!
Thank you very much Timber!
I have to say that is superb modelling, I feel your pain re bricks, that said back in the day we used to glue individual bricks on a building using computer chads, which were left over from when computers ran off punched card, I would welcome a video on how you recreated bricks and tiles using CAD
That is very cool Tris. Excellent work. Well done. I have a model of the Highley signal box on my layout. Maybe you could do a O gauge version of that. I would buy one for my layout. Take care. Regards Jaeson
Hello Jaeson, Thank you very much. Thats quite a bit of work but maybe something for the future. Bit by bit ill add things to my portfolio 😊
Wow 🤩 very beautiful result 😍👍👏
The result is dreamy. I love that the Mk1 finger is the best tool for the grouting and you have real grouting on your building! Your brush skill is excellent, I could never have the endurance. I am envious that you are young enough to not require the magnifying headband thing that I have to use, haha. The resin printer is a real game changer and it must be thrilling to see the results of your design work. Love it.
Thank you Pauline! I will appreciate my sight and make use of it while I have it. Thank you for such a nice comment 😊 Take care!
I don't know the name but it was done in WWII. It was to stop you walking into walls and tripping up steps, etc....
Great video and interesting.
Thank you Duncan that’s good to know
I believe this was a WW2 thing so it was easy to see the corners during blackout.
Great build man. I'm currently scratchbuidling a brick building with card and foam and anything I can find. And it's consuming LOTS of time and effort. And then OO Neal comes by and says: hey: you ca 3D print this! AAAARGHHHH!! Nice paint job though, great work. About those 3D printers: they produce quite a lot of chemical waste don't they? That's one of the things that is holding me back a little. Anyway: great build, great station, you've picked out a real nice one to model!
Lovley building Tris. You can get some good results with 3D printing! I need to get one myself soon. - Nicholas.
Thank you Nicholas, you should get one you will enjoy yourself with what It can do.
Just wow, the finished models look incredible 👍
Thank you very much!
artistic flair and modellers exceptiona skills.... thank you for doing this kind of modelling
Great video, and amazing building. How about make a simple 3D model like a coal merchants shed, so we can "paint along with OO Neal" ?
Maybe share the file for us with 3D printers and sell for them that don't ?
Thats a good idea, it would be a good way to let others join in.
Amazing. Application and concentration. Brilliant outcome, well filmed. Pointy tops are generally called finials. They are slates, not tiles, and the depth of the horizontal lines should be about the same as the vertical lines, which is very different from concrete tiles. Slates are around 7mm thick, so at 00 gauge that’s about 0.1mm. There should normally be a lead flashing covering the join between the chimney and the roof surface.
Thank you Rick, I appreciate that, note taken on the terms and the Lead flashing i'll have to remember that next time.
@@OONeal These things are of course easier said than done!
Lovely building...!
I have 3D printed some buildings for my model railway. (When it's built) I enjoy the detailing part of them too. I use PLA printers an Ender 3 and a CP-01, but I have to say the resin printers do a better job. I just wish I could design my own things instead of using others. I am making for sale a Starter kit and extra bay kits to make a roundhouse. I have built for myself a 6 bay one. I have also helped the designer to make some alterations to the kit so the new model should look even better. Martin. (Thailand)
Thats great you have been enjoying printing, drawing is in your reach but will take time to learn.
You are great artist with excellent skills 🎉🎉
Thank you so much 😀
That’s flippin awesome! One of the best detailed buildings I’ve seen in a long time! Congratulations and very well done!
The white corner bricks were often glazed white, or particularly in wartime, painted white, to emphasise the corners of buildings in poor (or no) light.
Beautiful work, you can be truly proud of that it looks excellent.
N.B. Have you considered printing out just a small section of brick/stone wall/roof, etc so you can see how it turns out before printing the whole thing? It might also be useful to practice painting techniques etc too.
I printed it off a few times to get the right feel of the building. I should do that more as practicing is always good. Thank you for your kind and helpful comments 😊
My guess is that the painted bricks may have originally been part of WWII air raid blackout precautions, like the white line at the platform edge, to prevent people walking into the corners of the building, injuring themselves, in the dark. At that time they would have been whitewashed, not painted.
Thank you that makes alot of sense.
The "spikey bits" do have a technical name. They are called Finials
Thank you David
Most excellent Tris. I know this station so well as soon as I had seen your CZcams tile I knew where you were. I can't fault your attention to detail. I went to ModelU to get body scanned so I can appear on my own layout and looking at your station wouldn't it be great for you in OO gauge to be stood next to your own version of Bewdley
Thank you, yes that is a very good idea. How much does it cost? do they give you the file or do you have to wait for them to print it off?
@@OONeal Not cheap but once scanned you can have any gauge printed plus they are able to digitally remove your head image and add it to any figure. Driver. Fireman. Station Master and so on. The scan is £40 prints are £9 in O gauge £4.50 in OO gauge add £7.50 for an edited figure head. They print the figure and retain the 3d file but you could ask. £10 per figure for professionally painted. If nothing else it would make for an interesting video for your channel and promote ModelU in Bristol. Have you seen Richard Watson's ModelU figure appearing in Hornby Magazine videos stood on platforms and signal box at Toply Dale and other layouts. You can buy a Richard Watson figure for your own layout from ModelU £4.50 unpainted. Watching CZcams videos about painting figures each layer needs to be transparent and build the layers so as not to lose the figures definition.
Superb models Tris, I think the OO gauge version looks more worn and weathered and the O gauge as if it’s just had a restoration and repointing. Both look great wish I had half your skill at these things.
Ah thank you Rob I really enjoyed making them so I appreciate your comments
The corner elements are called quoines.
Love the O gauge print. If you work out a way to offer the file for sale I'm in.
Looks fantastic in both gauges! Should really set up your own business the market would definitely welcome another option like this.
I think it would be a very expensive option for re-sale.
The white brick finish is called antiwalkinto
Spikey bits = Finials :)
I do want to get into using 3d printer just very good when it comes to any thing complex involving computer
Hi Tris. Love your models. The large corner stones are call Quorns as I, sure you have already been informed. However i'm curious about them being white. I can see that in this day and age its probably a safety measure. But were they painted white originally is the question?
Hello Gordon, Thank you I would have to ask someone at the station next time I go to find out why they are white.
Just noticed damn spell checkers lol that should read quoins. Doh.
I hope you consider placing this design 3D files for sale or the building. Would love one!
I need to work out a way of putting them on the website so people can buy the digital file.
@@OONeal That would be really great! I hope you do find a way, as postage into South Africa sucks - things just never arrive. Post Office doesn't care or opens stuff to see if its valuable to them to steal. I won two competitions on a UK Dungeons & Dragons FB page and my prizes never arrived.
Did you ever figure out?
Finials?
Thank you!
Amazing build, what layer height do you use for things like buildings? I’ve been doing a few prints recently and while the detail is great there are some very slight layer lines and I’m wondering if these can be solved. Again, really cool build and looks great on the layout!
Thank you very much. I print with 0.05mm layers. The angle is one thing to improve the lines but also Anti-Alias up to 8 on the settings will smoothen it out but loose a little detail.
Outstanding, Tris. Just outstanding. Beautiful structures and a very inspirational video. Cheers from Wisconsin!
Thank you Andrew 😊 I’m really pleased you like it 😊
Beautiful work. Concerning the OO model looking darker than the O one, I find that with my toy soldiers, you are better using lighter colours with smaller figures. 6mm figures do better with lighter shades than 15mm or 25mm figures.
Absolutely brilliant. I have a Mars Pro resin printer so may have a go at this. What size is it? I am fighting/learning Fusion 360. Don't think I will get to your skill level though. Regards. Pete
If you made this building on your printer due to your smaller bed you would need to make it in sections which you could glue together afterwards. size is around 150mm long.
@@OONeal Many thanks. Now all I have to do is draw it! :)
Fantastic Build! What do you use to wash and cure your prints ? Cheers
I use a tub of meths these days and then rinse with water afterwards
By "spikey bits" does ne not mean the lightning rods at all the peaks?
Amazing Station Office Tris. Any chance of selling copies of it on your shop website? SVR is my local Heritage railway.
Thanks, it’s a pain to print if I’m honest. It’s very large and the prints didn’t always come out perfectly. I hid all the bad ones 🙈
the pointy bits are called finials
Tris - New subscriber. Very Very nice. Just to clarify, your 3D printers will support O-Scale structures? I want to model in O Scale and i'm exploring 3D printing possibilities in O Scale. Kind Regards.
Nice station how wide are your platforms I am.new to this and am starting my station I don't want to make my platforms to wide.
Hello, I will have to check, I know they are around 5 to 6cm wide but narrow off where needed.
Thanks Tris
Hi awsome Modeling .. Just wondering how ypu up scaled to O fromm OO awsome results ..
Very nice project. I am building a British layout era 1960. Are you willing to share the computer files so I can print my own.
Truly superb results there Tris, well done. Will you be selling those commercially? Unpainted of course!
Thank you Kevin, I'm afraid I won't be as it was a hard print to make nicely. Maybe with better printers I will change my mind in the future.
@@OONeal As an alternative you could sell the CAD files to fund a better printer, just a thought. But a very nice piece of work, well done.
Great work, what printer do you use?
Thank you, for this one I used an Anycubic Mono X which had a large bed. It failed a few times so have moved on to a smaller mars3 printer which works very well.
is this 3d file purchasable? Very nice work !
They are called finials
Thank you Michael
Last week I listened to an expert in 3D printing. He revealed industry has devised equipment that prints both plastic and metal in concert. AND industry is being very tight-lipped as this technology will put millions of people out of work. Discussed was a cell phone with empty shell. All of the circuitry was imprinted into the case. China is of value because of very cheap or slave labor used in hand assembly. In fact, the IPad is made in Chengdu where a factory employs 120,000 people working 12 hour days 7 days a week. This new tech will dramatically change that reducing imports drastically. Integrated circuits / CHIPS as a separate part will go the way of buggy whips. Model railroading will be forever changed.
It's wonderful work, and your modelling is consistently excellent. Thoroughly excellent.
But (sorry I have to say it), the doors, the doors are too tall. Possibly a little wide. But they don't track with the tops of the windows. Much as that isn't always a perfect indicator, they don't sit quite right with storey heights either.
Nevertheless, I love your skill and application.
Thank you and no need to appologise. I agree with you completely but once I'd got to a certain point I started realising it but I was committed 😊 Thank you for taking the time to write the message.
They are called finials.
Thank you William 😊
Hi mate, I'm in Australia and I'm actually modelling the Severn valley railway, Kidderminster Bewdley and bridgenorth stations all 3 as close to actual scale size as I can, I'm wondering if I could buy the files for your Bewdley station so I get someone here to print it for me...
Also wondering if you could adapt it to the full size per the prototype as I have almost the full length available on my platform.
Would appreciate if you could get back to me when you are free.
Cheers
Nice model do not know the software you use for cad design. We use sketchup make for our models. Thanks for sharing. Take a look at our channel it may save you a lot of time designing building.
Tris, if you do not want to produce these personally, why not just produce a file for the CAD drawings and let other people print them themselves ?
Hi Steve, thats a good idea. I will have to work out how I can do that with my website.
@@OONeal I have just acquired a 3d printer and learning fusion 360. How on earth did you do the brickwork? I would love a copy of the file, it’s absolutely brilliant!
I suspect the white corners were done during the war for blackout safety reasons