Model Building and Super Detailing: in 3D Printing

This book provides tips and techniques for creating detailed and cohesive model railways, with examples from the Market Deeping club, British, and international locations. It covers topics such as scenery composition, construction techniques, 3D printing, and adapting models with detailing kits. The aim is to stimulate modellers to start their tricky projects and build confidence and skills.

Format: Hardback
Length: 112 pages
Publication date: 21 February 2024
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd

This book in the railway modelling series delves deeper into the tips and techniques that modern modellers can use to create a detailed and cohesive model railway. Through rich and varied imagery from the Market Deeping club, British and international examples, a number of different styles of scenery are covered. Subject chapters include locations from open country to heavy industry. Background and foreground tricks to draw the eye, that difficult-to-emulate water feature, and composing your scenes as independent units for later inclusion are demonstrated. Use is made of construction examples as varied as a tube station in OO to a farm in N. The basics of plastic stock kit building, adapting a model with a detailing kit, as well as scratch build from spare parts are demonstrated. Whilst 3D printing feels like an impossible dream for many, practical ownership and operation of both thermal extrusion and resin-based 3D printers is covered. With demonstration examples from the very basic, such as taking existing designs and scaling them for your own requirements on thermal extrusion, through to a worked CAD and highly detailed resin printer output. The overall aim is to stimulate the modeller to commence that tricky project, to produce something that externalises that inner dream while providing some of the basics to build up both confidence and skills.

Weight: 840g
Dimension: 215 x 304 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781399094887