Model Railroading with Jack Burgess Building with Styrene 2
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Welcome to the next episode of Model Railroading with Jack Burgess. In this second of two parts about working with styrene, Jack demonstrates several approaches to structure design and layout, including a technique that allows a machine to precision-cut your styrene for you, thereby limiting the variance inherent in cutting material by hand. These techniques can be used for N Scale, HO Scale, or any other scale!
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Your videos are so helpful. Accuracy and detail are so important.
Thanks Leonard...
Jack
Thanks for the Cricuit demonstration. Very helpful.
He is the best modeler period! I love his brain!! Tell him Walt Wilson and Dave Wilson say hi
Excellent! Great tips. Thanks Jack.
13:39 You Guys! Awesome Jack. Great video John
Nice video. The cricut cutter is interesting, hadn't seen that before. Thanks for sharing Jack. Best, John
Thank you for sharing this great video with us
Thanks Jack for the tips, always appreciated!
As a retired machinist, machine rebuilder and tool maker there are several ways you could achieve better accuracy than a ruler and a pencil. For laying out your lines one option would be to use a dial caliper. A 6 inch would work for most things. Set it the height you want and lock it in place. Now use the caliper like a combination square to lighty scribe you lines for the distance you set. The reason I said a dial caliper instead of digital is a digital is more of a PITA to set the distance you want. Another option is pickup a 12 or 18 inch granite tile from a home improvement center. Lowes, Menards, Home Depot, whatever. When there stop first in the tool section and grab a yard stick. Use that to check the granite tile for flatness. It's not going to be as good as a surface plate but good enough. Pick one out that reasonably flats fine. A good thick piece of plate glass is also good. Then find a surface or height gage. Look on Fleebay, Craigslist etc. Shars has one for about 40 bucks. Hold the material against something square. An angle plate, 1-2-3 blocks what ever. This would also be good if were doing something that had long continuous lines in the structure. Brick or stone work for example if your laying it out yourself. Maybe this is a little overboard. But I'm of the opinion that this hobby almost requires a certain amount of precision tools.
Another option for cutting out window openings. There is an item called a shim punch. Horror Freight sells one for, again 40 bucks as a punch and die set. They usually range from 1/8 to 3/4 (.125, .187, .250, .312, .375, .500, .625 and .750). One of these will punch a clean hole easily through styrene. Use the largest size that will fit and the get in the corners with the smallest. Use a chisel type Exacto blade (#18) to make plunge cuts to finish the opening.
The Cricut. I've even seen where people are using them to cut gaskets out for cars and other equipment
The whole point is. There are a lot ways to skin the cat
He's very clever, thanks a lot.
Thanks for sharing this information Jack, Great video John
I have been looking into that circuit, its a very useful tool for model railroaders
I try to cut lengths that need to match at once, cutting 'tall' section that the lengths all come out of and are equal from having common end cuts. flat sheet material its a great way to ensure something like two walls are the same exact length. For tubing cutting sections longer and trimming at the same time taped together ensures common cut equality.
Amazing video!
Great video! Thanks for sharing Jack. I really really want to see a start to finish project with a bit more detail about taking measurements from maps or photographic sources and putting those into a drawing program or CAD. It seems like CAD and a Cricut machine would be a great purchase for a modelling club as a benefit to their members to be able to not only cut styrene for the club layout but members' personal projects as well. Can't wait for the next video!
What a great idea...must like the video we shot today!
Who knew?
Great!!!!
jack love too see more about your power tools
You will notice that I didn't talk much about power tools in the Getting Organized video since I want to do one on power tools and show how that can make modeling easier, quicker, and more accurate. A Power Tools video is on my list but it will be a few months since John has the next two videos done and we shot another one today.
@@yvfan yes power tools is a must from 3d printers to co2 lasers tom
The power tools video is available. Search for "Jack Burgess Yosemite Valley Railroad Power Tools...
Jack
Does he remind anyone else of Clint Eastwood? Are you feeling lucky kid?
Do you feel prototypically accurate, punk?
Jack i love all yourbuilds im starting off my own builds in Nscale my problem im just not sure on what to order for thickness and size styrene if you give me a list on what to order that be great thanx again much appreciated
I use .040" styrene for structures but a small building (or a building in N scale) could be built with .020" styrene. For strips, divide the size you want (such as a 4x4) by 160. So a 4.x4 would be represented by a .025x.025 piece of styrene.
Another good one. Could you please detail which Cricut model and which blade is used?
I have the Cricut Explore Air and use the Deep Cut blades for styrene.
@@yvfan Thanks for the info
jack do to go to cricuit to run your part i understand autocad me i used corel draw i think its call canvas program to run the cutter ?
Jack, what's the recommended maximum thickness styrene that it can cut? I gave some projects, and think this might be a better investment than a home laser cutter (which I've also looked at).
I think that .020" is as thick as you can cut on the Cricut. My normal building sides are from .040" styrene so I back up the .020" with another piece of .020" inside the building. I too thought about a laser cutter but got turned off by the need to vent the smoke. I have had a professional laser cutting company cut .040" styrene without melting the edges but I'm not sure that the home laser cutters could do that.
@@yvfan thank you!
The Cricut Maker cuts through dense materials up to 2.4 mm (3/32”) thick. home.cricut.com/cricut-maker
Another 'tip', old phillips head screwdriver or hex head screwdriver, cheap tip that is bad for screws can be sharpened into a soft material shallow hole/countersink taper hand drill. Hard to do with a good screwdriver with harder metal, easier with the cheap soft metal type. Those crappy sets of driver heads made from pot metal can make a good hand drill multi tip set for modeling. If you trash a tip, file it into a new cutting tip. Also please notice the horrible pun! woohoo!
I would build a model railroad in my house but I don’t have any room.
I had the same problem when I got back into model railroading in 1965 so I scratchbuilt models for a future layout and slowly improved my skills...
N scale --- you can build a nice layout on a 2' x 4' or a nice switching layout on a 1' x 4' peice of plywood or Foam board and put on some shelve brackets.
I can set up tracks around my basement for short time periods, I just wish I had a DCC locomotive and a DCC controller.
What's the best layout plans 4 by 8 for ho
I don't have a clue partly since I have never built a 4x8 layout. But I'm sure Model Railroader magazine staff could tell you...