Laser Cutting Gauge 1 LNER Coaches

[Alan Wright]

I am slowly working at the AutuCad work for a rake of LNER teak Gresley coaches. Has anyone done any similar projects?

Alan Wright
Arthur
Ontario
Canada

 

[Oz7mm]

Alan

I have had a go in 7mm scale. The prototype is a New South Wales Railways MCE 72'6" car. This has the advantage of having straight sides, but the disadvantage of being both pannelled AND matchboarded.

Materials are 0.8mm and 0.4mm ply as appropriate. I sprayed one side with red oxide primer which is close(ish) to the NSWR coach livery.

I hope your project goes well

John

 

[Alan Wright]

Alan

I have had a go 7mm scale. The prototype is a New South Wales Railways MCE 72'6" car. This has the advantage of having straight sides, but the disadvantage of being both pannelled AND matchboarded.

Materials are 0.8mm and 0.4mm ply as appropriate. I sprayed one side with red oxide primer which is close(ish) to the NSWR coach livery.

I hope your project goes well

JohnView attachment 188389View attachment 188390View attachment 188391View attachment 188392

John, That looks great!! What programs did you use to draw the parts and get them to your laser cutter? I am in my seventies and my brain gets logged out after a couple of hours on AutoCad. Attached is a picture of my Laser cutter. I am using 0.4mm and 0.8mm Baltic ply. It is very expensive when compared with thicker plywoods.

Alan

 

[michael mott]

Hi Alan what type and size is your laser cutter?

 

[Oz7mm]

Alan

I use quite an old version of Turbocad which is quite adequate for laser cutting drawings.

The laser cutter is an HPC 6840. It's also used to produce the buildings and other structures for Love Lane.

Brain doesn't seem too foggy yet at 77.

john

 

[Alan Wright]

Hi Alan what type and size is your laser cutter?

Hi Michael, The cutting area is 600mm x400mm.

 

[Alan Wright]

Alan

I use quite an old version of Turbocad which is quite adequate for laser cutting drawings.

The laser cutter is an HPC 6840. It's also used to produce the buildings and other structures for Love Lane.

Brain doesn't seem too foggy yet at 77.

john

Hi John, I am using AutoCad LT 2000. My laser cutter is aliexpress.com1260.0US $ |4060 Co2 Laser Machine ,free Shipping 50w Co2 Laser Engraving Machine, 220v 110v Cnc Laser Cutt Machine, Cnc Engraving Machine - Wood Router - AliExpressSmarter Shopping, Better Living! Aliexpress.com.

Alan

 

[Oz7mm]

Alan

I only answered half the question about software. The HPC lasers come with a program called Lasercut 5.3 which does the translation machine instructions. It handles quite a few file formats.

John