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...good Heavens, while we were looking for (much more realistic items) we found this:

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:259005

No, we aren't printing one anytime soon, but wow. Over 100 hours just to print it!

 

We did print a picnic table and a passenger platform from the Thingiverse collections, both of which are more than decent. Pictures will be forthcoming after the Super Bowl, since this year's is actually good.

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Very Cool ! Thank You for posting the link. Just last week I was having a conversation at my LHS about 3D printing and mentioned half in jest that it won't be too long before someone "prints" a Big Boy locomotive and here we have it. The description on the link said it took over 1000 hours to print......that's 42 days....wow

 

Enjoy

 

Frank 

The model is also six feet long. The builder spent 700-800 hours drafting the 3D plans before printing the loco.

 

I'd say it's become possible to reverse-engineer anyone's production models to produce at least an all-plastic clone as a proof-of-concept--if said person had the skill needed to re-draw all the parts into 3D models. Of course making it run-able is a whole other kettle of fish.

 

I'd like to do the same to produce the WECX 801 Schnabel car. It's been done in 'G' scale (discussed on the MyLargeScale forums), but I don't have access to a 3D printer.

 

---PCJ

 

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If you have a Tech Shop nearby, you can sign up to use one for a fee. Also, some Kinko's Copies have them, and so do some colleges, the way they used to have rental typewriters, then regular printers. 

 

The home models aren't that expensive now, and there are ways to manipulate our base-model DaVinci so it will handle spool filament instead of expensive cartridges. Ours does a single color at a time and isn't the world's fastest, but we knew we needed to learn how to use one and thought simple would be best to start with. Tom came in tonight with a cereal bowl he'd made and said " Thanks for your Christmas present," because he's been using it more than I have! (Gotta make a pair of the earrings that are a tiny loop of track with a train on it.)

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