Schools Class Locomotive

The Southern Region V Class locomotive, more commonly known as the Schools Class, was designed by Richard Maunsell. A total of 40 were built between 1930 and 1935 and they were all named after English Public Schools.  The model depicted is Stowe, one of the three that are preserved and running on heritage railway lines.

Printing and Colour Change Guide

The locomotive centre block and dowels were printed in matte black. The wheel rim plates start with matte black then at layer5 -1.00mm change to Prusa galaxy black, layer 31 - 6.2mm change to green. The wheel centres are printed in green, care being taken to insert the driving wheels in the wheel rim plates correctly.

The cylinders are printed vertically with support starting with gloss black and colour changes at layer 7 - 1.00mm to white, layer 12 - 1.8mm to black, layer 16 - 2.6mm to white, layer 20 - 3.4mm to green, layer 110 - 20.2mm to white, layer 114 - 21mm to black, layer118 - 21.8mm to white and layer 122 - 22.6mm to black.

The connecting rods are printed horizontally with support in galaxy black to give them a metallic lustre.        The boiler plate is printed in green along with the gear that fits on later. The fire box, and boiler sections and cab outside are printed vertically in green. The cab roof, boiler bar, buffer beam pipe, smoke box and chimney and front steps are printed in gloss black. The boiler pipe attachments, safety valves and window frames were printed in a bronze and the boiler pipes in a copper colour.

The coloured boiler rings start with white then layer 5 - 1.00mm change to black, layer 9 - 1.8mm to white. They are lettered to indicate their position on the boiler bar linking all the boiler parts.

The inside cab is printed with support and detail can be added starting with matte black, layer 15 - 1.91mm to dark grey, layer 25 - 3.69mm to light grey, layer 81 - 11.8mm to dark grey and layer 104 - 16.4mm to light grey

The boiler plate and steps trim starts with green and at layer 7 - 1.4mm change to white. The cab side trims start with green then layer 3 - 0.6mm to white, layer 5 - 1.0mm to red and layer 7 - 1.4mm to yellow. The name plates start green then layer 4 - 0.8mm to white, layer6 - 1.2mm to red and layer 9 - 1.8mm to bronze.

The buffer beams are printed in red with a little black paint for the hook detail. The buffers start with light grey then layer5 - 1.0mm change to black.

The tender wheels are printed wheels up in matte black with colour change to galaxy black at layer 12 - 14.4mm. The axle boxes plate starts with green changing to matte black at layer 4 - 0.8mm. The tender side trims start with green and change to white at layer3 - 0.6mm. The tender steps plate is printed in green with supports. The tender outside is printed in green whilst the coal bunker, coal hatch and dowels are printed in matte black. The coal was printed in galaxy black.

Superglue was used throughout. If any files appear to have errors, be assured, they will print fine.