Hornby TT120 kitbash

Last post I had a chassis from a Hornby TT120 4 wheel wagon seperated from it's body.
This post it gets a new body!

What started out as a copy of a Chiver's Finleines O16.5 wagon, that I redrew, stretched, changed details ready for O14, and never did much with. It has since been cut and shut again, rescaled, lengthened, redetailed and prepared for printing for HOn3½.

In the slicer, ready to send to the Form2 printer I use. I'm afraid FDM printers just aren't good enough for fine detail work. I'm also afraid of the cost of Formlabs resin and consumables!

Fresh out of curing, and with support truss removed

It's great to knock out a quick wagon to get an idea on size of details and how much detail to include. I have a bit of a problem with people making fantastic 3D models, incredibly detailed, but nearly impossible to get all the supports off cleanly and for the details to not be too flimsy.

I will have to decide on couplers shortly! Buffers, and hence bufferlock on curves, is going to be a problem. The PVH diesel loco has prototypical screw couplings, the existing fleet from Andrew Collier has a mixture of Greenwich and Roco couplers (and not all wagons can currently couple together due to coupler lengths), and of course this new wagon has a Hornby dilemma slung below it. Paint will hopefully happen this week too!