Besides the loco in 3D you can copy bottles of scotch, or if big enough maybe
Marilyn Monroe to liven up the train room.
John Armstrong
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From: petemster
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 10:10 AM
Subject: {S-Scale List} Print Me A Pacific Please
Start with a pacific locomotive bodyshell. Place it on the table. Pass your
hand-held, double-lens 3D scanner over it a few times, ensure it is set for S
Scale, and switch on your printer.
Go and enjoy a cup of coffee and, when you come back, Hey Presto !
Collect your new pacific locomotive.
Of course you can always just design your own to start with.
Hello folks.
The new industrial revolution is here. It is 3D Printing !
That's right - 3 Dimensional printing.
Materials ? You want a new house ? Print it out.
An aeroplane, a special wedding cake, even a new liver!!!
Or even a perfect model of yourself ! Print them out !
And for railway modellers, plastic is easy. Or you can have an aluminum
model, or titanium if you really want it.
These processes are already happening, or will become reality in the near
future. Liver patients will have to hang on a bit longer.
Well I'm no technical expert but in principle it seems pretty simple. Your
printer, of course, is not like an ordinary ink-jet printer, more like a
microwave oven. So long as your material can be injected in layers - each maybe
just 100 microns thick - the model is built up layer by layer until a perfect
3-dimensional finished product is completed.
Actually it is reported that you can also start with a solid piece of your
chosen material and your shape can be carved out layer by layer as well.
Scale ? As stated, your finished product can be to any scale you like, if
your "oven" is big enough. S Scale is easy.
How many ? As many or AS FEW as you like whenever you want them.
Where ? In your own house if that's what you want.
Implications.
This technology is here - now. It is a true revolution in manufacturing. It
has many implications.
The good side - S Scale is no longer dependent on numbers - only if you go to
a large-scale producer, which will not be necessary.
You can do it yourself - if you have the technology.
S scale producers will not be dependent on Chinese manufacturing companies.
The not-so-good side. Millions of people might lose their jobs.
As with previous technological advances this might be a short-term problem
and a long-term benefit.
But it will affect not just the Chinese, but everybody !
Maybe all the Americans who become redundant could train as lawyers - because
the lawsuits will become a major indutry in themselves.
Copying of products will be as easy as downloading your favorite music. You
can produce an S SCale copy of an HO or O gauge model.
Mike's Train House versus Lionel will seem like a picnic.
And there's a real economic danger. We live in a global economy. As history
has shown us, a good way to create an economic depression is to adopt
isolationist policies - don't buy unless it's made in the USA - and to
implement sudden and severe budget reductions.
Well that's my reading of the possibilities. I don't want to rattle any cages
or stir up an off-topic debate.
Anyway - the fact is that the new 3D Printing technology is going to have a
major impact on all of us, in many different ways.
I hope that it becomes the saviour of S Scale modelling.
What do the manufacturers think ?
Slàinte Mhath !
Pete Molloy. Scotland.
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