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This is an improved version of my previous paint holder, having two advantages: a) can be printed without any support b) vallejo-paint bottles can be stored head down at all positions - this is especially helpful if the bottle gets close…
There are a lot of versions of dry boxes available holding silica gel in the front compartments of the Bambu-Lab AMS. None of the design presented here is basically new, I brought things only together and optimized them, were I found…
Don’t have a resin printer? You may buy the model at N'Tastic Scale Models: https://www.ntastic-scale-models.co.uk/shop/under-licence-range-slanjonok-range/WLZIUUC3AWPRTNDKJOPXNJVZ ---- 6ts manual operated crane, as it was used on larger…
Just a side kick of my normal designs… may be someone has use of it. 😊 If you need a girl with phone in sitting pose - there is already one here (called "WrongTimeGirl"): https://www.printables.com/de/model/316751-passengers-for-steam-bus…
Meant as a side kick only my “girls with phones”- design became unexpectedly popular. There seems to be a great demand for figures of the better half of the mankind. 😉 As I had made them anyway, here are some more girls and (not to…
For resting of print head cover during maintenance/nozzle change. Made for print head version, where the cover opens to left hand side. Before printing, please check your print head. If it opens to right side, the original design:…
For a diorama I needed a park bench and found this wonderful design. The item was made unfortunately for 1:24-scale. To make it printable for n-scale I had practically to remake all parts in a more strengthen way. I tried to make it as…
Nowadays we imagine rail cranes in construction work only or in case of rail incident, but in earlier days of railways such cranes were quite commonly used for normal cargo handling. Yard cranes able to load/unload road rail containers,…
When I found this model on Thingiverse created by Windham Grave, I just had to print it and then I thought this model must be available on Printables, being a website hosted by a Czech company… and here it is. The Praga V3S is probably…
Like my cows: https://www.printables.com/de/model/302165-cows-for-slopes-ramps-and-flat-surfaces-1-148 I now need sheep for my Thornycroft-JJ-type double deck cattle truck (I will upload separately). Since the sheep offered by model…
Creating a cattle body for my Thornycroft-PB-lorry I liked to have a cow walking in/out. There are a lot of cows available on the marked from different model railroad makers, but surprisingly all of them assume a flat surface, what would…
Some time ago I published my Thames river barge: https://www.printables.com/model/395615-oit-thames-river-barge-1-148 But what is a barge without a tugboat isn’t it? Fortunately, in the same book we found plans of the barge also lines and…
To make the Foden steam bus alive I created a conductor (called Igor) and some passengers. Hope you enjoy them. All models sized for British n-scale (1:148). Conversion values: Continental N-scale, 1:160 -> 92.5% TT-gauge, 1:120 -> 123%…
Don’t have a resin printer? You may buy the model at N'Tastic Scale Models: https://www.ntastic-scale-models.co.uk/shop/under-licence-range-slanjonok-range/WLZIUUC3AWPRTNDKJOPXNJVZ ---- This is an add-on to my OIT-model of Thornycroft…
While researching the origins of intermodal transport, I found pictures of British road-rail-containers being unloaded from barges to wagons at a dock near London in the 1930's. Then I found another fascinating image on the web, showing a…
Piotr Stachu , alias Pietia, from Poland is in my eyes one of the most impressive designers at Thingiverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/pietia/designs I really love his models and especially the buildings are very useful also for model…
Here you can find cargo for loading trucks. Bags, barrals, pipes… All models are sized for British n-scale (1:148). Conversion values: Continental N-scale, 1:160 -> 92.5% TT-gauge, 1:120 -> 123% HO/H0-gauge, 1:87 -> 170% OO/00-gauge, 1:76…
Don’t have a resin printer? You may buy the model at N'Tastic Scale Models: https://www.ntastic-scale-models.co.uk/shop/under-licence-range-slanjonok-range/WLZIUUC3AWPRTNDKJOPXNJVZ ---- The Y-type lorry was one of the British trucks…
Don’t have a resin printer? You may buy the model at N'Tastic Scale Models: https://www.ntastic-scale-models.co.uk/shop/under-licence-range-slanjonok-range/WLZIUUC3AWPRTNDKJOPXNJVZ ---- Continuing the “origin of containerization”-theme in…
Remix of the great GAZ66 model of Pfelpensson, here with standard box used in different modifications for maintenance/repair workshops, laboratories, field kitchens, medical service and many other purposes. Model is hollow with holes in…
Trying to model the origin of containerization in n-scale, I was in need of an horse carriage like this: https://www.brightontoymuseum.co.uk/w/images/Container_with_horse_and_wagon,_LNER_(TRM_1928-05).jpg…
Don’t have a resin printer? You may buy the model at N'Tastic Scale Models: https://www.ntastic-scale-models.co.uk/shop/under-licence-range-slanjonok-range/WLZIUUC3AWPRTNDKJOPXNJVZ ---- Collect and Delivery means the service provided by…
After successful use of 100 wooden B-type containers in their network the London & North Eastern Railway (LNER) ordered in 1929 as much as 230 steel containers from Metropolitan-Cammell. The order consisted of 175 BL-type, 25 BLS-type…
Collect and Delivery means the service provided by railroads to collect or deliver cargo to/from freight yards to senders/receivers. Since the beginning of railroads until WW2 and partially even after horse carriages were used in this…
There can be found a lot of drip tray mounts or supports for the building plate of the Elegoo Mars printer, but in my eyes by far the best was designed by Joel Knutti alias Jonyk1996: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4899689 It can be…
Don’t have a resin printer? You may buy the model at N'Tastic Scale Models: https://www.ntastic-scale-models.co.uk/shop/under-licence-range-slanjonok-range/WLZIUUC3AWPRTNDKJOPXNJVZ ---- I found this fantastic CAD-model of a Foden steam…
In my opinion, Enely has designed the best bicycles for model railways that I have found so far: https://www.printables.com/model/19491-womens-bike-h0-scale https://www.printables.com/model/30893-bike-in-h0-scale Their design is made for…
Vit Budina makes wonderful print-in-place models of trucks and cars: https://www.printables.com/@VitBudina/models even more for money at https://cults3d.com/en/users/budinavit/3d-models Some of them are well-made replicas of real cars,…
Don’t have a resin printer? You may buy the model at N'Tastic Scale Models: https://www.ntastic-scale-models.co.uk/shop/under-licence-range-slanjonok-range/WLZIUUC3AWPRTNDKJOPXNJVZ ---- In several books you may find a photo of a…
For mobile layouts KATO’s Unitrack is the first and only choice in n-scale and one of the best track systems in general: https://unitrack.katomodels.com/what_is_uni_track The system includes viaduct tracks and as I have made a viaduct for…
VJM787 made a fine detailed model of the ASU85. Unfortunately it is not printable in smaller scale, especially the tank track fall apart. I liked to make it printable for a future project, so I did. On CAD-screenshoot you can see all red…
This is basically the work of LUNA-M and Polizeilada (see source section below). I just put them together and made modifications to get them printable for smaller scale. It’s a modular trailer system of the East German army, here with…
Don’t have a resin printer? You may buy the model at N'Tastic Scale Models: https://www.ntastic-scale-models.co.uk/shop/under-licence-range-slanjonok-range/WLZIUUC3AWPRTNDKJOPXNJVZ ---- The Y-type lorry was built from 1915 until 1922 by…
Don’t have a resin printer? You may buy the model at N'Tastic Scale Models: https://www.ntastic-scale-models.co.uk/shop/under-licence-range-slanjonok-range/WLZIUUC3AWPRTNDKJOPXNJVZ During research for modelling the Foden steam lorry I…
The 10-series was the name for upper mid-size cars produced by Austin in four different reincarnations from 1911 till 1947. Within the legendary collections of wargamer models created by M_Bergman (…
Remix of the great models of Pfelpensson & somtec (see source section below) The truck cabin was modified to airborne version of the GAZ66. The Zu23-2-canon is a fixed one with strengthening at some places, to be able to print. Sized for…
For a running project I needed an admiralty anchor and was surprised that there aren’t much correctly modelled anchors available for download, including a correct Admiralty anchor or stock anchor. Fortunately, I found makers drawings, so…
Remix of the great GAZ66 model of Pfelpensson, here the R142-version, a radio and command post, used within eastern armies. Model is hollow with holes in bottom. One version is with interior, you may see the radio compartment forward and…
Here are Piers/pylons for KATO’s viaduct track. Compared to original piers here you can find piers in 5mm steps up to a height of 120mm giving a smooth ramp to never reached heights of viaducts. The height is defined from ground level to…
Nowadays everything is shipped around the world in containers. But not many people are aware, that the history of “containerisation” or “intermodal transport” started far back in the late 19th century in UK, shortly after the modern…
Don’t have a resin printer? You may buy the model at N'Tastic Scale Models: https://www.ntastic-scale-models.co.uk/shop/under-licence-range-slanjonok-range/WLZIUUC3AWPRTNDKJOPXNJVZ ---- The Thornycroft JJ-type is a 5/6-ton lorry with long…
Don’t have a resin printer? You may buy the model at N'Tastic Scale Models: https://www.ntastic-scale-models.co.uk/shop/under-licence-range-slanjonok-range/WLZIUUC3AWPRTNDKJOPXNJVZ ---- After upload of the cows a while ago…
Don’t have a resin printer? You may buy the model at N'Tastic Scale Models: https://www.ntastic-scale-models.co.uk/shop/under-licence-range-slanjonok-range/WLZIUUC3AWPRTNDKJOPXNJVZ ---- Vulcan Motors was a smaller British car and truck…
If I had had a 3D printer when I had little boys, I definitely would have printed tracks for their Playmobil train. Now my boys are grown up, but before I sell the whole Playmobil, I thought I would construct the tracks so that others…
Summary And again a remix of Pfelpensson's great GAZ66. That time it’s a soviet AP2-field hospital/ambulance, still in use in armies and medical services of successor states. I included a picture of an Ukrainian unit, used in Iraq,…
Don’t have a resin printer? You may buy the model at N'Tastic Scale Models: https://www.ntastic-scale-models.co.uk/shop/under-licence-range-slanjonok-range/WLZIUUC3AWPRTNDKJOPXNJVZ ---- As mentioned in previous designs, the railways…
Most permanent model railroad layouts are somewhat mountainous but fences that one can buy are usually only made for flat landscapes. To my knowledge, only PECO has addressed this issue (N/OO/O-gauge):…
For a low loader-project, I’m working on, I was in search for some cargo. I found this fantastic chain tractor, that would just fit. Of course, the original design was made roughly 27-times as big as I would need it and for completely…
Searching for anything around early British road-rail containers there are several pictures showing loading or unloading. I though it’s fun to design containers with open doors and here is one… and four man from the removal team, an old…
For single track versions see: https://www.printables.com/model/1243296-diy-viaduct-for-katos-unitrack-n-scale/files Here are now the double track versions. I made viaducts for all possible combinations of tracks offered by Kato, so you…
The Japanese railways sticks out for its colourful intermodal transport with much of different domestic types of containers. These 6/10/12/15/30-foot containers seems to fit better to transport needs in Japan, than the large and heavy…
The LMS (like other British railways) used very successful containers for transporting foodstuff, especially meat. Basically there were two modes of transportation: Cooling fresh meat by using well ventilated containers and Frozen meat…
Not my typical design, but I was asked to design a barge for a friend, who builds larger ship models and wanted to have such barge. The original was built in 1928 at shipyard Johann Oelkers in Hamburg under the building numbers 470&471 as…
Another remix of Pfelpensson's GAZ66. This is a fog generating unit, developed in the Soviet era and used to cover relocation of military units. Still in use in armies of successor states - the video (link in sources below) shows an…
Don’t have a resin printer? You may buy the model at N'Tastic Scale Models: https://www.ntastic-scale-models.co.uk/shop/under-licence-range-slanjonok-range/WLZIUUC3AWPRTNDKJOPXNJVZ ---- Collecting milk was one of the most important daily…
Beside the Unitrack rails, Kato has also Unitram rails for creating layouts with trams. This system comes with street plates and even modular houses to create whole cities. The Unitram system can be connected to the Unitrack rails to…
Mr. Musk's followers probably won't believe it, but e-mobility existed long before Elon was born. A beautiful example of this historic fact was modelled by Windham Grave, a 3D designer I admire greatly:…
Trying to model the origin of containerization in n-scale, I’m of course liked to have a model of the famous Scammell mechanical horse and/or the Scarab: https://www.burtonlatimer.info/industry/W&W-Doom-of-the-crate.html…
Time to extend the DIY-viaduct with points/switches and to add DIY-signals! See pictures for more information. Here the advantage of possible cable routing inside the DIY-Viaduct for Kato’s Unitrack comes to the light. For viaducts and…
While I would dispute that the container was invented in the US, there is one kind of intermodal transportation that clearly originated there – the Road Railer! These are special designed road trailers, who can be coupled directly into a…
Don’t have a resin printer? You may buy the model at N'Tastic Scale Models: https://www.ntastic-scale-models.co.uk/shop/under-licence-range-slanjonok-range/WLZIUUC3AWPRTNDKJOPXNJVZ ---- For more information see Basic version of this…
Another remix of Pfelpensson's GAZ66. This time an electronic intelligent system for searching and positioning of enemy radio signals in the range of 500…9000MHz and a depth of up to 70km. Two version of the vehicle can be printed – on…
For model railway modellers lacking the space for a permanent layout or trying something new Kato’s Unitrack is the first choice in n-gauge. Kato offers also elevated tracks and ramps/viaducts (see for example Variations-Sets V2 or V13),…
The idea for a stopper for Kato’s Unitrack is anything but new. Wapata made one and published at Thingiverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:147963 But I wasn’t satisfied with, as it stops the rolling stock with the coupling and…
For single track viaducts see: https://www.printables.com/model/1243316-diy-piers-for-viaduct-for-kato-unitrack Here are Piers/pylons for KATO’s viaduct double tracks in two styles, one that fits to single track piers (23-015…017) and the…
Used in the Soviet army since the early 70's. DPP40 stands for Desantniy (airborne) Pontoon Park, 40t, what is the maximum vehicle weight, the system can carry. I’m not a military expert, but my first idea, when reading about was – if…
The Vauxhall Type D was an upper-class car produced by Vauxhall Motors from 1912 to 1915 and again from 1921 to 1922 as the Vauxhall 25. More than 1,500 were delivered to the British Army as command staff or ambulance transport vehicles…
The Bulgarian company Balkancar was established in 1951/52 to produce industrial electric trucks and forklifts, in 1978 Balkancar became the world largest (by number of delivered units) producer of such equipment and could keep this…
Here are the most common meat containers of the London & North Eastern Railway, the ventilated BM-type container of diagram 18 for transporting fresh meat and the insulated FM-type of diagram 25 for transporting deep frozen meat. In total…
Hansom cabs enjoyed immense popularity as they were fast, light enough to be pulled by a single horse (making the journey cheaper than travelling in a larger four-wheel coach) and were agile enough to steer around horse-drawn vehicles in…
For more information see Basic version of this lorry: https://www.printables.com/model/1043344-vulcan-6vf6pf-lorry-basic-versions-1-148 There you can find also more cab-versions and the driver figure. Here tow truck or wrecker versions of…
For mobile layouts KATO’s Unitrack is the first and only choice in n-scale and one of the best track systems in general: https://unitrack.katomodels.com/what_is_uni_track With these clips, Unitrack rails can be packed very compactly and…
If I had had a 3D printer when I had little boys, I definitely would have printed tracks for their Playmobil train. Now my boys are grown up, but before I sell the whole Playmobil, I thought I would construct the tracks so that others…
Searching for completely different things in the web, I found some pictures of a quite compact and simple container crane and though that is exactly what would be needed for container terminals on most and always space restricted model…
For some upcoming projects I was in need of baggage, that travellers use. Tomek_s_scaled_world has produced some nice suitcases: https://www.printables.com/model/591558-gepackstucke-in-1100-skalierbar But I needed more of them and of more…
Oleg (alias Rozoom@thingivers) has published some nice models: https://www.thingiverse.com/rozoom/designs including an extraordinary Brougham carriage: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:778237 After I made a test print in 50%-scale, that…
Since 1929, till 1948 the LMS built and used different types of containers mostly for transporting meat, but also other perishable goods. More than 1500 containers were built in 15 different versions under the class letters BM, BR, F, FM…
I found used KATO-bridges and liked to use them with viaduct tracks on their piers/pylons. But you need an adapter piece to do so, which is normally delivered with the bridges itself. Ones lost; you can’t buy it as separate spare part (at…
I already published steel containers produced by Metropolitan-Cammell for LNER and LMS in 1929: https://www.printables.com/model/349082-oit-lnerlms-shipping-container-1-148 Here are now some more steel containers produced by same…
English version below… Kato hat in Spur N sehr schöne Begleitwagen für die Rollende Landstrasse hergestellt. Leider ist die Inneneinrichtung komplett falsch, weshalb ich anhand von Unterlagen aus dem Web eine neue Einrichtung erstellt…
For more information see Basic version of this lorry: https://www.printables.com/model/1043344-vulcan-6vf6pf-lorry-basic-versions-1-148 During research work for this truck I found some pictures of a garbage collecting version here:…
On request from user of such beautiful KATO-train sets, like the ICE4 or the Pacific Surfliner, I made a wider version of the viaduct for Kato’s Unitrack:…
Beside painting with brush and airbrushing, I use some paint spray cans for base coat and some special colours. Occasionally used only, the best way to keep the spray cans operational is to store them in horizontal positions. This…
Painting a lot of small things mostly for n-scale I use a lot of so-called alligator clips to hold the items. I was desperately in need for a holder-holder, to keep the clips for drying without danger they would fall and far enough from…
For washing my resin prints, I use an Elegoo Mercury Plus wash-and-cure station. To save isopropanol it is common practice to pour the used one into a glass and put it into day light, so the washed resin can cure and fall out (don’t do it…
Of course, tighter radii are always a compromise between reality and the space available for a model railway layout, but for those cases where a tighter radius is needed, here I offer DIY viaducts with slightly wider spacing between the…
Kato offers viaduct tracks with a height of 60mm (track base above bottom). At same time and by whatever reason T-Trak-modules, that are heavily based on Kato’s Unitrack system, are defined at a height of 70mm. Isn’t this crazy? But here…
For those who are not yet familiar with the moving bus system, here is a good article: http://www.sumidacrossing.org/OtherElements/TomytecBusSystem/ The DIY-street plates print without supports and 0.4mm nozzle, but with very fine layer…
From my grandma I inherited flat collecting trays, which have proven to be very handy when assembling my projects from small details. So handy that I needed more of them - so I designed some to print and a lid that the originals didn't…
My original clips for packing Kato’s unitrack works quite well for tracks only, but can’t be used for points (also called railroad switches or turnouts), as these cannot be stacked so close one on top of each other, due to the mechanics…
Here's a new version of the piers for KATO’s track systems. The goal was optimal stability with compact storage, as well as the ability to use them not only for viaducts but also directly with Unitrack track. Especially with temporary…
Having DIY-viaducts for KATO’s Unitrack in n-scale with cable routing below the track, there was still the missing piece – a pier, that can route the cable down to the ground. Here is the solution: a pier/pillar, that is not only able to…
Having published DIY-double track piers for viaducts, someone pointed out, that the 6-leg piers are more stable, than the standard single column piers and it would be great to have an extension, to use them for a 2nd tier to. So, I…
If you are looking for British railway models for 3D-printing, IronMink is probably the designer of first choice. In any case, I admire his work immensely: https://www.thingiverse.com/ironmink/designs IronMink designs for OO but publish…
To complete the wider versions of my viaducts here you can find some special parts for turnouts/points and signals but also some parts to connect double track sections with single track. The advantage of having a viaduct that works also…
Modification for gluing instead of screwing, otherwise close to original.
After basic street plates for the bus system already uploaded here: https://www.printables.com/model/1608362-diy-streetplates-for-tomix-running-bus-system-n-sc I found that turns are needed and the possibility to run different ways… so I…
While cleaning up, I found an unloader for tipping wagons that Minitrix ones used to sell. Not that these cars have anything to do with real-life models (at least in this scale), but their action always makes them a great fun for…
Here are some more containers of the London and North Eastern Railway: - A-type container of diagram D5, in total 300 were built in 1931 just after 250 A-type containers of diagram A4 were built in 1929. Correspondingly the new containers…
You have S186-tracks of Kato’s Unitrack, but need Unitram-double track plates for your layout? Here is the solution, inlets for filling the gap. Have fun! Please note: “Kato”, “Unitram” and “Unitrack” are trademarks of K.K. Sekisui…
