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Yep exactly as I had you pictured in my mind joe! The Willy wonka of etching!

 

jeff

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Martijn Meerts

Might take a while before I can show anything. The fences I wanted to try to use on the platforms of my under-construction local station, but I don't actually have any platforms for that yet 🙂

 

I might just do some quick mockups of the platforms using some card stock.

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Kamome442

Hi Martijn, I saw that your order arrived. I am looking forward to seeing what you come with.

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Kamome442

New Arrivals!

 

Buses

The new style bus mirrors I have been working on are now up for sale. There are three versions to choose from:

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Booth: https://neonnoirdesigns.booth.pm/items/6581233

Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1872221379

 

I am still working on the list of bus companies that use each variant of mirror. This seems like a slightly endless task. There are a lot of bus liveries in Japan!

I will probably work through Tomytec's back catalogue to make sure all the buses that are in model form are covered. For now here is the latest version:

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I also updated the original design to make construction a little easier:

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Booth: https://neonnoirdesigns.booth.pm/items/5280505

Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1607901525

 

An additional variant is on order and will join the line up soon.

 

Fences

 

There are two new sets of fences added the first is Series 5 of the N-Scale Crossing Prevention fences:

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Booth: https://neonnoirdesigns.booth.pm/items/6578318

Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1857638924

 

Finally I received the first 1:80 scale fences. I put the listing up on Booth last week but held off announcing them as I wanted to announce everything at the same time. Regardless it was picked up that they were available, I ended up selling all of all of style 2 and all but 1 of style 1. There are still plenty of fish available. I have ordered a reprint of the these so once they arrive I will create the Etsy listing. 

 

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Booth: https://neonnoirdesigns.booth.pm/items/6484394

 

Happy modelling

Joe

 

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Martijn Meerts

Yeah, pretty sure I'll be ordering more in the not too distant future 😄

 

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Kamome442
6 hours ago, maihama eki said:

Your mirrors are an outstanding bargain compared to this new offering.

 

https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/11172511

 

 

Oh interesting, thank you for sharing. I can certainly win on value even if they have me beat on ease of assembly 🤭

I am surprised they are using UV resin on such delicate parts, the printer resins I use are very brittle.

That said I have seen some resins marketed as flexible, I have not experimented with any yet.

It would be very interesting to see them side by side with my etched mirrors to see how they compare.

 

 

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Kamome442
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Catenary System

 

I have been trying to work out a way to simplify the catenary gantries I drew up for Yurakucho and offer them for sale. Making a truss should be relatively simple with the 4 sides folding to make a tube. I am thinking for the brackets that connect the horizontal and vertical trusses of trying something like this:

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The middle section will sit on top of the horizontal truss with the two sides folding down like a saddle and held with a dab of glue. The little back plate will fold around and be glued to the vertical truss. Other parts that I would still need to work out are the brackets that hold the wires, most of these should possible as etched pieces and I have a lot of them partially drawn up. It would also need a base and little pyramid caps at the tops of the vertical posts, I might be able to 3D print these.

 

I would like to try a 2 and 4 track option, for the 2 track I will probably offer a narrow or wide horizontal truss:

 

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If these are popular I will then add a 1 and 3 track version.

 

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Beyond that I have already drawn up a few alternative brackets that I need for Yurakucho, I could offer on a separate sheet to give a little variety.

A two way bracket for posts mounted between tracks:

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An alternate version that switches between narrow and wide gantries:

 

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A bracket that allows you to offset the vertical post to avoid obstacles:

 

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I sure there are others that I could find if I follow the tracks a little further.

Additionally I could offer a sheet of just the trusses in lots of different lengths to allow for longer/shorter posts or gantries.

 

Seeing as I have most of the parts I need already drawn up it seems like nice and easy project to work on. I will order some sample brackets and trusses to make sure it all fits together nicely once folded. While I wait for those I can draw up the other gubbins that carries the wires.

 

Joe

 

Edit: I forgot to say I will need to check the spacing between tracks that would be needed as I am pretty sure the spacing I used on Yurakucho is smaller than on set track.

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Woo Hoo Joe! I’ve been hoping for so long someone would do this! I’m glad its you as it will be thought out so well! I see this a potentially a good market as the options are slim to none for etched metal girders like this.

 

cheers

 

jeff

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brill27mcb

Are you thinking of the normal standard 33mm Kato spacing between tracks and the Tomix standard 37mm spacing?

 

Rich K.

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Kamome442

That's great @brill27mcb exactly what I needed to know. I just want an idea of how wide a gantry needs to be span a given number of tracks. The actual placing of tracks within that space shouldn't be an issue as the placement of the brackets along gantry will be fully adjustable.

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