Hey guys!
While we are on the topic of sharing stuff and I got used to working in Blender for 3D printing id like to show off my track pieces for Plarail Advance. Its not entirely my idea as I saw this being done by someone who sells them on Rakuma (https://buyee.jp/rakuma/search?seller_id...91f0e0ba20) and got so excited by the idea I just HAD to do it myself! Gotta admit since im not familliar enough with japanese railway infrastructure I did use the Unitrack system from Kato as a reference here and there but I think its still a pretty nice system even if its so tiny right now
Some of the bits and pieces that I've printed out to test
3 different buffers have been printed, the right one is the first version but I changed it to the version in the middle. The left one is a completely different design
The male/male connector thats used for all connections
Buffer size comparison
All pieces have their "name" engraved into their back so I can keep track of everything. It has nothing to do with the plarail indexing for their pieces but does copy it pretty much
Already have more pieces modeled (curves, plarail to... "this" adapter and cant wait to try out doing crossings, bridges, raisers and all the other fun stuff)
Cheers
While we are on the topic of sharing stuff and I got used to working in Blender for 3D printing id like to show off my track pieces for Plarail Advance. Its not entirely my idea as I saw this being done by someone who sells them on Rakuma (https://buyee.jp/rakuma/search?seller_id...91f0e0ba20) and got so excited by the idea I just HAD to do it myself! Gotta admit since im not familliar enough with japanese railway infrastructure I did use the Unitrack system from Kato as a reference here and there but I think its still a pretty nice system even if its so tiny right now
Some of the bits and pieces that I've printed out to test
3 different buffers have been printed, the right one is the first version but I changed it to the version in the middle. The left one is a completely different design
The male/male connector thats used for all connections
Buffer size comparison
All pieces have their "name" engraved into their back so I can keep track of everything. It has nothing to do with the plarail indexing for their pieces but does copy it pretty much
Already have more pieces modeled (curves, plarail to... "this" adapter and cant wait to try out doing crossings, bridges, raisers and all the other fun stuff)
Cheers