Feldbahnmodule with ship

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Now there has been further progress.
First, a few track boards were milled from 3.0 mm HDF. They were milled with 1.5 mm deep grooves for the rail profiles. (Here again, please note that the light railway did not run over the weir in the prototype!)
In addition, there were 3.5 mm x 2.0 mm milled recesses for the railing profiles.


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The 5.0 mm high HDF wall stones are located on the sides. Both the rail profiles and the side blocks protrude 2.0 mm above the (yellow-marked track board) – enough space to fill the floor with sand and boards.

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In the following three color images, the milled wall sections have already been colored, but only loosely assembled!

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Similar to how my father was photographed on the Wehr in 1962, ...

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...I wanted to stand there myself once—even if only as a 3D-printed figure.

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Here you can see how the 3.0 mm track board serves as a stop for the outer brick edges.

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Initially, I wanted to have the 40 railing supports I needed cast in 3D from brass using the lost wax casting process... but the price of over €300.00 for 40 railing supports from a well-known supplier was not worth it to me. Even though I would like to use metal where it was also used in the prototype, I decided to look for a sturdy alternative.
I remembered that Kalle had shown a railing for 0 gauge at an exhibition a few years ago that was relatively sturdy yet slightly flexible. It could be bent easily and then returned to its original shape without breaking.

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Within just four days, the parts were in front of me... now I have to sand down the tiny remnants of the support structures on one side of the leg using 600-grit sandpaper before I can install the other brass tubes.

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[finescalerr]

The bridge is progressing beautifully. I like the little loco, too. -- Russ

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@Russ

I reported on the small light railway locomotive here quite some time ago...  Click: here

I guess I'll have to do something more about that soon ;-)


Today, there is a little more to see from the Delvenau segment.

This is how it was planned:

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Screenshots of the two outer sides, each 10,000 pixels wide, were printed on several A4 sheets of paper and glued together so that I obtained the respective outer lengths of the side walls.
These paper templates then served as a guide for the jigsaw.

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An attempt with a jigsaw blade, which caused the edges on the underside to tear, was not very convincing.

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Instead, I used a fine-toothed saw blade for metal. I had previously applied adhesive tape firmly to both sides of the cut edges, which allowed me to almost completely avoid tearing on the front.


I did the sawing in the workshop area to keep the module area as dust-free as possible.

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In the meantime, the segment has been repositioned at its destination:

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[finescalerr]

I remembered the little switcher so I guess you'll have to finish it someday. Meanwhile the Delvenau section is coming along beautifully. -- Russ