You’re too harsh on yourself Sam, your first 3d printed locomotive should be loved because he just shows you how important it is to find a place to start so you can begin your journey of making your own locomotives. I haven’t started 3d printing entire locomotives yet, but I’ll give it my best over here in the states.
You should always be proud of the first one as that's the one that started you on the path of learning! Be fun to see you go back and do a Mark II of the early ones 😊
The first model is fab Sam. Captures aura of some hard working industrial monster from the 1800's that was battered and dirty and lived a short life of bodged repairs and oily tea. Absolutely love it.😊
your locos are incredible Sam! I love how you can see your confidence improve through each successive model! Definitely would say 552 is my favourite! If you're looking for suggestions for future locomotives, why not try (if it's possible) an era 1 loco.. You have The Rocket, but what about the other locos from the Rainhill Trials? how about Sans Pareil or novelty? heck even the cycloped! Would definitely be a challenge!
Sam every journey starts with the first step and is the learning curve to better things. To get your head around what you have to achieve in order to make 3D printed models is a minefield but with perseverance you have achieved the goals you aspire too. Well done and yes you inspire others in this great hobby.
hi sam. at last a catwalk of sams unique models starting from your first build upto your present build. you should always be proud of your first model because that led to your present day models well done
Hello Sam, have you heard of the GWR Garratts? They were 2 proposed designs that never came to fruition. One is a 2-8-0+0-8-2 (using 28XX chassis), the other is a 4-6-0+0-6-4 (using Hall chassis). With both chassis being readily available in RTR, you can combine 3D printing (for the body etc.) with RTR to create these 2 very unique models.
The gresleys rocket fan idea was done before for james may's great train race attempt two, however it went horribly wrong as the engine, was not fitted with brakes, and then after rerailing it they tested its speed and it derailed at such a high speed it ripped itself to bits, though gresleys rocket has a much smaller fan so it is superior in that sence, so its not top heavy, if only it had a coupling haha As you can tell, gresleys rocket is my favourite, love a wacky idea
It's really amazing how far your 3D printed projects have come. I remember when you teased the prototype as an idea you were working on before you knew it was possible to make a fully 3D printed loco, I never imagined it would turn into multiple proper models! I think my favorite is either the Manning Wardle L Class or Old Coppernob personally, but they're all fantastic- even the prototype 4-4-0!
I would quite like to see you make a Lancashire & Yorkshire Class 23. A ready to tun model has never been made, whilst it has a large saddle tank and inside cylinders, so I imagine it would be quite easy to make and add weight to make it pull better The Class 23 were rebuilt from Class 25s. They literally removed the tender and added a saddle tank and bunker, so if you wanted to you could modify that into a Class 25
I've been designing and 3D printing a garden scale tank engine over the course of this year, and have found the big strength of 3D printing is being able to easily iterate on parts that weren't quite right the first or second time. Rather than sanding, I've had best results splitting up parts so smooth flat sides can be printed flat, and enabling ironing in the slicer. It makes the print take longer but can dramatically reduce post-processing.
Sam, all the models are beautiful, including the first one. Your progress have been astonishing. Can I request you to please make a 3D printed running model of Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR) steam engines?
So glad you made this video, as it gives us a great look at your progress over time. Your first loco was already something more than most people could build on their own, but my goodness have you improved! Awesome work, Sam!
My favorite is a tie between the 552 and Gladstone. Beautiful, despite their faults. My suggestion is for you to make the New York Central M-497 Black Beetle. I'm not going to say exactly what it is, so you can be surprised when you look it up :) Cheers mate, and keep up the good work!
We've followed all of your 3D builds Sam and once you had it going with the Gladstone they all have cracked us up. Admittedly, the Furness #3 still is our favourite as well but the 552 is coming in very close. Especially its blue colour and all the details are spectacular. 3D Printing generally has reached a point where factory standard locos and rolling stock have become attainable as we have seen on another channel. Tonnes of online sellers of 3D files for modellers are available now for just a few dollars per download, or even for free. E.g., we wanted to have catenary but Märklin's own are extremely overly expensive. We downloaded the necessary prototypical 3D files and had them printed for just a fraction of the price. It is time that manufacturers should be getting very worried perhaps... Cheerio.
You are amazing at what you do and I'd love to do what you have done someday! I'd love to see you try and pull off designing something like the L&YR 29 experimental Mogul, the 5AT, or the 'Q1 Pacific' someday!
Really impressive modeling skills. This video really highlights the whole point of 3D printing: making things you simply cannot buy. I think the main negative is that you can see layer lines in several of your models. Some of that is extrusion issues, but mostly it's an unavoidable limit of FDM printers. Someday you might consider getting a resin printer. They're a pain for a variety of reasons (fumes, the care you need to take with residual resin before washing), but they're really, really good at fine detail. Even the cheapest ones. They also tend to have small build volumes, but I think the models you're printing are well within those limits. It's only the late, really large articulated locomotives that would be too big for most resin printers.
Seeing these 3-D printed locos is really starting to motivate me to make my own custom models whenever I decide to get back into HO/OO gauge engines again. As for potential suggestions, I might have some unique locos. I’ve actually done some research and as far as I know, no major manufacturers ever produced any of these locos here. -The Haydock Foundry Well Tank Engine (0-6-0) -KUR ED1 Class (2-6-2) -GER A55 Class Decapod (0-10-0) -BR 11001 Diesel (0-6-0)
And I just designed and printed 2 HO flat cars. Then I watched the two videos with your engines in them, which is an inspiration to try to do the same. Take pride in that first engine you made. The first is always a prototype, and one you learn from. Love them all as you showed them, and I think I want to do it as well. I did the flat car, because I like flat cars, and it was a good start to try to make something that worked the first time. It also cost me about $20 less to print it then buy one, but paint is not my strong point. I like you masking you did on the handles, and I might try that. Feel pride for what you did, and let your chest swell. Job well done on something you can't buy.
Haha Sam don’t let anyone in the blackcountry know you said they were in brum, you’ll never hear the end of it 😂 I was sceptical in the extreme about the coupling rods but I’ve followed your lead in doing an 0-4-0 as a freelance saddle tank but did it outside frame outside cranks using class 08 wheel sets as practise for a GWR 4-4-0 3521 class, and yeah, works! Before that I’d only modified donor chassis to suit 3D printed bodies (changed wheel sizes, cut and shut) or done a loco chassis but with old tender drive units, but you inspired me to do something 100%, well except the gears; the wheel set already had a drive axle and I hand a screw for the motor so…
Amazing Journey Sam. The Great Eastern Livery looks great. Some challenging ideas for future projects. Great Western Broad Gauge Iron Duke 4-4-2, This will mean 3D printing Brunel style bulk road track with longitudinal sleepers and cross ties with maybe normal rail clipped in. A big challenge but how great would a broad gauge train be !
The prototype looks good I mean even real locomotive designers have designs that failed you got to start somewhere and it's a heck of alot better than I could do
There are actually 3 L class engines in preservation, 2 are at the Middleton railway being sir Berkeley and Mathew Murray with Winston Churchill at Birmingham
Courage mon brave! You've taken me right back to covering my school boy bedroom in white plaster dust and my first few (failed) attempts with the Linka OOscale model building moulds. The branch line to mainline success is chossed - up with missteps, shall we say. Ee bah gum lad wilt tha juss luke ow far tharve come in a few short months! I'm going to dig out the Linka sets now and see if it was my impatience or if I'm simply crap at it.
I can see there’s real potential for progress. With the pace of technology the quality will continue to improve in the years ahead... many more will all be making our own models. Who needs Hornby, Bachmann, Dapol and the likes?
Ive been looking at 3d printing diesels and electrics, my First project Im going to do is the Class 599 Tyne and Wear Metrocars once I get my Ender 3 Neo. Good thing is with Electric and Diesel locos is that most bogies are either available as spares or able to be easily modified from spares
Very nice work. You’ve come a long way, but be proud of all your locos and rolling stock. They may not be as realistic or perfect as you desire but this is oo gauge after all. And from Gladstone on, it’s hard to be critical, you did very well on them. Gotta say old copperknob is my favorite. So unique. Keep it up Sam. Your videos are loved by me and my family.
Beautiful work. I'd love to have a train as nice as that GER 552. I got myself a 3d printer last week and since then I've been pondering if I could print a train. This is very encouraging.
I really like the Gladstone and GER 552 models you made! I'd like to see you 3D print a railcar/multiple unit, as I'd like to see how you'd mount the motor and maintain interior detail. You could do the BR class 311, 318, 332, 185 Desiro which have not been modeled yet, or something completely fictional. Some steam engines I'd like to see you attempt are the LNER Z4 0-4-2T, Caledonain 439 0-4-4T, L&YR class 25 0-6-0, LNER J17 and J21 0-6-0s, North London Railway Class 75 0-6-0T, Metropolitan Railway G class 0-6-4T, Southern U/U1 class 2-6-0, any North British engines (as only the J36 has been made in OO scale), any Great North of Scotland engine, and Metropilitan railway 4-4-0T number 23. All of which have never been offered in OO scale or only as out-of-production kits.
I have an idea, for a 3D print. "Uncle Fredrickson's Tender Tank". An 0-6-0 Saddle Tank with it's coal bunkers between the tank and cab, an open cab with 2 rotating gates at the back so it can be used as a shunter, or a tender engine (Gates flush with the back of the loco for shunting, and flush with the sides of the cab for tender). It would have one of those HO/OO scale couplings, but is also equipped with a tender coupling underneath.
Got an idea for you Sam: a Midland Railway 115 class, also known as a Midland Spinner. It’s another NRM loco that I don’t think is professionally manufactured. Maybe when it’s back on display you should take a look.
I think that both Coppernob and the 552 look great! My preferred one is the 552, mainly because of the smart livery. I'd be more than happy to have a loco similar to these in my collection. I genuinely believe that they can compete with professionally made ones of the post 2000 era. And they very definitely look better than my two locos from cheap Märklin starter sets from around 1980. So now, I'm just waiting until Sam's trains trains starts mass production. Edit: what I meant of course was Sam's trains' trains, the trains from the Sam's trains TH-cam channel 😉
You can be proud of what you've done, many looks very good. Imagine what can be done with fine resin printing... Also you could have showcased these locos with your own rolling stock ;)
I went to the Arsenal of freedom at the Steam Railroading Institute last Friday, I saw several military vehicles, saw Pere Marquette 1225 & the other steam locomotive they're restoring Chicago and Northwestern 175 & I rode their 7.5 inch gauge miniature train twice and I saw a few layouts
I really, really like your Great Eastern 552. Something less traditional like a FS Class 670 would be a really cool build IMO. It would be cool to see your list of possible ideas that you're considering building.
They look amazing. It would be a great to get them professionally printed on industrial printers and painted by specialists to see what can be done with your designs.
Hi Sam, great video, it's amazing how far you've come with the quality of the models. I'm sure that greater advances in quality will be achieved in the next few years by the improvement of both 3D printers and the materials used, giving a much better finish at conception. It would have been nice to have seen an example of the construction and assembly of one of your chassis, also the various parts used both purchased and 3D printed. Perhaps another time? Regards Barry.
Great video Sam! Love seeing how you've improved from that first design, but even that was an accomplishment, if I had to suggest an engine for you to try create, maybe try out the L&YR Class 24? Keep up the good work!
I actually attempting to kind of build a custom train using the copperknob chassis In some 3D slicer softwares They allow you to put multiple creations on to 1 platform and print all of them together so I took the chassis and mashed it together In the body that sits on the chassis is a 0-4-0 birdy engine
Polar cloud is the software I used and it does work The wheels did fit inside the copperknob chassis Buy using some of the other engines details I covered up some of copper knobs that I could not remove
I'm a big fan of Gladstone, I hope to see a RTR model of it at some point *EDIT* Ah yes a suggestion I have is a very fun locomotive for you to build: the Y10 0-4-0 "Super Sentinel" as seen on the Wisbech and Upwell Tramway
wow what a nice video, this really shows what you can do with persistence and dedication. Something that I've found out recently regarding the manning Wardle L class is that there's 2 others preserved, one being Matthew Murray on the Middleton Railway In storage after its boiler ticket expired in 2021, and the other being Abernant on the Great Central Railway undergoing restoration as of February of last year.
Hello Sam lovely locomotives you have created, an engine that I'd consider making is the Furness railway K2 class. I haven't seen many others attempt making this one.
If you're looking to do a larger engine then GWR no 111 'The Great Bear' would be neat. It uses the same diameter wheels as a Castle so they would be easy to get. Either that or a GWR 'River' class, an elegant early 2-4-0 design, would look great running alongside your City or Dean Goods engines.
Being a latecomer the GER 552 is my favourite as its the one I saw you develop in real time. As for suggestions, one of the East Kent Light Railway SECR O class locomotives could be an interesting one, neither an O nor an O1, having features of each. The Light Railway Profiles book on the line covers it, and other parts of the railway in question too.
Reminds me ive been working on a light rail tramtrain (a Siemens S70) and its gonna be in a sound transit paint scheme since thats what my local trains are painted in
Hi Sam, these look marvelous! What's even more impressive is that those are FDM-printed. But, as I've said before, you should really try resin-printers! You'll find quality and resolution to just be mind-blowing! I can have details of (at most) 0.15mm in size, meaning, for example separate leaf springs in a suspension, or a separate holder for a handrail, and the handrails can actually be round! Even rivets on a boiler are possible.
Impressively designed, engineered and produced RUNNING train engines. The painting is also near professional quality. Thanks for sharing these really nice train engines.
1950's scifi themed, something from the buster crabbe era buck rodgers or flash gorden, it would be nice to have a couple of rocket ships running round.
You should look into the locomotives that worked at Dowlais Ironworks. They’re are some pretty unique looking locomotives, one of them looks nearly identical to Thomas. The livery is pretty easy to reproduce. So if you want something industrial to add to your layout, they would be a good choice.
Good video here Sam, some of those models do look very good, since I don’t have any 3D printing equipment yet the only ways I have made models is by either buying kits or taking an original made model by a manufacturer and doing modifications to the model.
Last summer on the first of fifteen days of BritRailPass took an early ride to York entered the National looked at my left and at a distance the first I catched was the Gladstone so I yelled to myself Sam's Trains!
You’re too harsh on yourself Sam, your first 3d printed locomotive should be loved because he just shows you how important it is to find a place to start so you can begin your journey of making your own locomotives. I haven’t started 3d printing entire locomotives yet, but I’ll give it my best over here in the states.
I’ve always wanted to give it a shot at 3D printing a tender and maybe a engine eventually,hope you get to 3D printing engines!
@@midnightexpress8556 me too lad! I just gotta wait for new replacement parts. By way, I’m hoping to do gauge one as well!
You should always be proud of the first one as that's the one that started you on the path of learning! Be fun to see you go back and do a Mark II of the early ones 😊
haha yeah that's is true - I do still have fond memories of it!
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
@@SamsTrains please make a double-ended farlie and a Garrett, those are two of my favorite engines
The first model is fab Sam. Captures aura of some hard working industrial monster from the 1800's that was battered and dirty and lived a short life of bodged repairs and oily tea. Absolutely love it.😊
I love how you say that Gresly’s rocket is entirely fan powered. (In 2 ways; a real fan and Sam’sTrains fans)
As a fellow 3D printer Sam, and owner of some of your creations, I salute your diligence and patience.
your locos are incredible Sam! I love how you can see your confidence improve through each successive model! Definitely would say 552 is my favourite!
If you're looking for suggestions for future locomotives, why not try (if it's possible) an era 1 loco..
You have The Rocket, but what about the other locos from the Rainhill Trials? how about Sans Pareil or novelty? heck even the cycloped!
Would definitely be a challenge!
It's really amazing to see how much progress you did Sam. From your first one to your best one.
Cheers Jasper & WIllow
Thank you so much!! I am proud of all the improvements over these past few years :D
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
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Sam every journey starts with the first step and is the learning curve to better things. To get your head around what you have to achieve in order to make 3D printed models is a minefield but with perseverance you have achieved the goals you aspire too. Well done and yes you inspire others in this great hobby.
hi sam. at last a catwalk of sams unique models starting from your first build upto your present build. you should always be proud of your first model because that led to your present day models well done
Hello Sam, have you heard of the GWR Garratts? They were 2 proposed designs that never came to fruition. One is a 2-8-0+0-8-2 (using 28XX chassis), the other is a 4-6-0+0-6-4 (using Hall chassis). With both chassis being readily available in RTR, you can combine 3D printing (for the body etc.) with RTR to create these 2 very unique models.
I love that GER loco, the blue liveries are beautiful, and you’ve had a really good go at it. I think you’re being too modest. I’ll buy it off you!
The gresleys rocket fan idea was done before for james may's great train race attempt two, however it went horribly wrong as the engine, was not fitted with brakes, and then after rerailing it they tested its speed and it derailed at such a high speed it ripped itself to bits, though gresleys rocket has a much smaller fan so it is superior in that sence, so its not top heavy, if only it had a coupling haha
As you can tell, gresleys rocket is my favourite, love a wacky idea
Greeley Rocket kinda reminds me of the push along prop thing Triang did back in the day!
I think you mean Gresley. 😉
It's really amazing how far your 3D printed projects have come. I remember when you teased the prototype as an idea you were working on before you knew it was possible to make a fully 3D printed loco, I never imagined it would turn into multiple proper models! I think my favorite is either the Manning Wardle L Class or Old Coppernob personally, but they're all fantastic- even the prototype 4-4-0!
Great work! Love to see your designs printed on a resin 3d printer!
I would quite like to see you make a Lancashire & Yorkshire Class 23. A ready to tun model has never been made, whilst it has a large saddle tank and inside cylinders, so I imagine it would be quite easy to make and add weight to make it pull better
The Class 23 were rebuilt from Class 25s. They literally removed the tender and added a saddle tank and bunker, so if you wanted to you could modify that into a Class 25
The G E R looks beautiful. I'd like to see next you do some 3D printed '0' gauge models.
Sam, Thanks for sharing! Your first loco is a neat proof of concept; you should be proud!
I've been designing and 3D printing a garden scale tank engine over the course of this year, and have found the big strength of 3D printing is being able to easily iterate on parts that weren't quite right the first or second time.
Rather than sanding, I've had best results splitting up parts so smooth flat sides can be printed flat, and enabling ironing in the slicer. It makes the print take longer but can dramatically reduce post-processing.
The Great Eastern locomotive is an absolute classic design, and a brilliant model to run on a regular British layout.
Even though I've been watching the 3d printing videos since the beginning, it's astounding to see just how much progress Sam has made
Sam, all the models are beautiful, including the first one. Your progress have been astonishing.
Can I request you to please make a 3D printed running model of Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR) steam engines?
Sam don't diss your first explorations , you have shown what can be done with thought and perseverence
Received my 2 packs of Sam's Trains era 1 wagons today. Very nice, Thanks!
They all look amazing and the best part is you made them from scratch. Well done Sam. Martin. (Thailand)
All the models are great they look good and they run well, certain companies should take note. Great videos Sam.
So glad you made this video, as it gives us a great look at your progress over time. Your first loco was already something more than most people could build on their own, but my goodness have you improved! Awesome work, Sam!
Old Copperknob is certainly a beautiful model. It’s detailed for an early locomotive!!
My favorite is a tie between the 552 and Gladstone. Beautiful, despite their faults.
My suggestion is for you to make the New York Central M-497 Black Beetle. I'm not going to say exactly what it is, so you can be surprised when you look it up :)
Cheers mate, and keep up the good work!
Nice to see someone new having a go at scratchbuilding... I particularly liked your GER 0-6-0 and was impressed by the good running.
Excellent work there Sam I would be proud all of those locomotives and cherish and be proud of your first effort cheers from down here in New Zealand
I agree. You have to start somewhere. A loco designed out of your head. I think that's brilliant.
"So Gresley's son hit solid brick and was flattened" jesus Sam that is quite the brutal description
We've followed all of your 3D builds Sam and once you had it going with the Gladstone they all have cracked us up. Admittedly, the Furness #3 still is our favourite as well but the 552 is coming in very close. Especially its blue colour and all the details are spectacular. 3D Printing generally has reached a point where factory standard locos and rolling stock have become attainable as we have seen on another channel. Tonnes of online sellers of 3D files for modellers are available now for just a few dollars per download, or even for free. E.g., we wanted to have catenary but Märklin's own are extremely overly expensive. We downloaded the necessary prototypical 3D files and had them printed for just a fraction of the price. It is time that manufacturers should be getting very worried perhaps... Cheerio.
You are amazing at what you do and I'd love to do what you have done someday! I'd love to see you try and pull off designing something like the L&YR 29 experimental Mogul, the 5AT, or the 'Q1 Pacific' someday!
I love them all but as a fan of Stephensons rocket Gladstone is my favourite well done all round sam
Really impressive modeling skills. This video really highlights the whole point of 3D printing: making things you simply cannot buy.
I think the main negative is that you can see layer lines in several of your models. Some of that is extrusion issues, but mostly it's an unavoidable limit of FDM printers. Someday you might consider getting a resin printer. They're a pain for a variety of reasons (fumes, the care you need to take with residual resin before washing), but they're really, really good at fine detail. Even the cheapest ones.
They also tend to have small build volumes, but I think the models you're printing are well within those limits. It's only the late, really large articulated locomotives that would be too big for most resin printers.
Great work! I'd like to see these locos on display at a model rail show along with demonstrations of CAD use and 3D printing
honestly I think the Gladstone is my favorite! but all of the models in the video really show your progress in this endeavor.
Seeing these 3-D printed locos is really starting to motivate me to make my own custom models whenever I decide to get back into HO/OO gauge engines again.
As for potential suggestions, I might have some unique locos. I’ve actually done some research and as far as I know, no major manufacturers ever produced any of these locos here.
-The Haydock Foundry Well Tank Engine (0-6-0)
-KUR ED1 Class (2-6-2)
-GER A55 Class Decapod (0-10-0)
-BR 11001 Diesel (0-6-0)
I love ur work for the 3d model trains. I wish I was creative like u brother. Keeping being awesome
And I just designed and printed 2 HO flat cars. Then I watched the two videos with your engines in them, which is an inspiration to try to do the same. Take pride in that first engine you made. The first is always a prototype, and one you learn from. Love them all as you showed them, and I think I want to do it as well. I did the flat car, because I like flat cars, and it was a good start to try to make something that worked the first time. It also cost me about $20 less to print it then buy one, but paint is not my strong point. I like you masking you did on the handles, and I might try that. Feel pride for what you did, and let your chest swell. Job well done on something you can't buy.
Wow, I'm impressed by your efforts, and really inspired! Well done!
I'd have to say old coppernob is my fav loco you've done. It's so cool to see a modal of these old engines.
Haha Sam don’t let anyone in the blackcountry know you said they were in brum, you’ll never hear the end of it 😂 I was sceptical in the extreme about the coupling rods but I’ve followed your lead in doing an 0-4-0 as a freelance saddle tank but did it outside frame outside cranks using class 08 wheel sets as practise for a GWR 4-4-0 3521 class, and yeah, works! Before that I’d only modified donor chassis to suit 3D printed bodies (changed wheel sizes, cut and shut) or done a loco chassis but with old tender drive units, but you inspired me to do something 100%, well except the gears; the wheel set already had a drive axle and I hand a screw for the motor so…
I don't know about favorites, but I'd be very happy to have the Gladstone or the 552 on my layout! They look great!
Don't be too hard on yourself. They are fantastic! I live in York, so know the engine well!
some of the best prints ive seen i didnt even think piston rods printed were possible
Amazing Journey Sam. The Great Eastern Livery looks great. Some challenging ideas for future projects. Great Western Broad Gauge Iron Duke 4-4-2, This will mean 3D printing Brunel style bulk road track with longitudinal sleepers and cross ties with maybe normal rail clipped in. A big challenge but how great would a broad gauge train be !
The track gauge would be 28.2 mm. It's a pity that no manufacturer as far as I know produces that.
Gladstone is my favourite, looks great and goes well
The prototype looks good I mean even real locomotive designers have designs that failed you got to start somewhere and it's a heck of alot better than I could do
The last loco is the best one yet. I can't wait to see what your next loco would be.
There are actually 3 L class engines in preservation, 2 are at the Middleton railway being sir Berkeley and Mathew Murray with Winston Churchill at Birmingham
Courage mon brave!
You've taken me right back to covering my school boy bedroom in white plaster dust and my first few (failed) attempts with the Linka OOscale model building moulds.
The branch line to mainline success is chossed - up with missteps, shall we say.
Ee bah gum lad wilt tha juss luke ow far tharve come in a few short months!
I'm going to dig out the Linka sets now and see if it was my impatience or if I'm simply crap at it.
Great job on the L chrichill Sam ! , id buy one !
I can see there’s real potential for progress. With the pace of technology the quality will continue to improve in the years ahead... many more will all be making our own models. Who needs Hornby, Bachmann, Dapol and the likes?
Hi Sam.
Would love to see you 3D print an LMS Beyer-Garratt. Now would surely be the ultimate challenge for you.
Paul. 🤩
hahaha thanks Paul - it certainly would be!! ;D
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
Sam reviewed one of those a couple of years ago. Heljan make them, I have one myself.
Perhaps Sam could do an LNER Garrett ??
You should be proud..each step is part of a learning curve....I liked the yellow 040 best...keep going Sam
Ive been looking at 3d printing diesels and electrics, my First project Im going to do is the Class 599 Tyne and Wear Metrocars once I get my Ender 3 Neo. Good thing is with Electric and Diesel locos is that most bogies are either available as spares or able to be easily modified from spares
I have a suggestion: The Blue Circle Traction Engine! It’s a very complicated design, so it could be a fun challenge!
Ooh that would be fun you're right! :O
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
@SamsTrains Idea: build the proposed LNER Gresley I1 4-8-2
Very nice work. You’ve come a long way, but be proud of all your locos and rolling stock. They may not be as realistic or perfect as you desire but this is oo gauge after all. And from Gladstone on, it’s hard to be critical, you did very well on them. Gotta say old copperknob is my favorite. So unique. Keep it up Sam. Your videos are loved by me and my family.
Beautiful work. I'd love to have a train as nice as that GER 552. I got myself a 3d printer last week and since then I've been pondering if I could print a train. This is very encouraging.
Your own take on a not-ludicrously-priced Caledonian 812 would be really nice to see.
Hi Sam, great video. Gladstone is my favourite. All the best. Carl.
I really like the Gladstone and GER 552 models you made!
I'd like to see you 3D print a railcar/multiple unit, as I'd like to see how you'd mount the motor and maintain interior detail. You could do the BR class 311, 318, 332, 185 Desiro which have not been modeled yet, or something completely fictional.
Some steam engines I'd like to see you attempt are the LNER Z4 0-4-2T, Caledonain 439 0-4-4T, L&YR class 25 0-6-0, LNER J17 and J21 0-6-0s, North London Railway Class 75 0-6-0T, Metropolitan Railway G class 0-6-4T, Southern U/U1 class 2-6-0, any North British engines (as only the J36 has been made in OO scale), any Great North of Scotland engine, and Metropilitan railway 4-4-0T number 23. All of which have never been offered in OO scale or only as out-of-production kits.
I have an idea, for a 3D print. "Uncle Fredrickson's Tender Tank". An 0-6-0 Saddle Tank with it's coal bunkers between the tank and cab, an open cab with 2 rotating gates at the back so it can be used as a shunter, or a tender engine (Gates flush with the back of the loco for shunting, and flush with the sides of the cab for tender). It would have one of those HO/OO scale couplings, but is also equipped with a tender coupling underneath.
My top 3 favorite of your 3d are
Gladstone
Old Coppernob
And the 552
The others are also really cool as well
Make a model of the LNWR ' Special ' DX 0-6-0 Please, they're an underrated and unknown goods loco and they're beautiful!
You should be proud of your first loco you had never done anything like it before and you learnt from it and got better
Got an idea for you Sam: a Midland Railway 115 class, also known as a Midland Spinner. It’s another NRM loco that I don’t think is professionally manufactured. Maybe when it’s back on display you should take a look.
I think that both Coppernob and the 552 look great! My preferred one is the 552, mainly because of the smart livery. I'd be more than happy to have a loco similar to these in my collection. I genuinely believe that they can compete with professionally made ones of the post 2000 era. And they very definitely look better than my two locos from cheap Märklin starter sets from around 1980.
So now, I'm just waiting until Sam's trains trains starts mass production.
Edit: what I meant of course was Sam's trains' trains, the trains from the Sam's trains TH-cam channel 😉
You can be proud of what you've done, many looks very good. Imagine what can be done with fine resin printing...
Also you could have showcased these locos with your own rolling stock ;)
Best channel on UTube ! Sam provides information, details, insight, opinion, comparisons, AND entertainment. I will be SOooo lost if he stops !
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I went to the Arsenal of freedom at the Steam Railroading Institute last Friday, I saw several military vehicles, saw Pere Marquette 1225 & the other steam locomotive they're restoring Chicago and Northwestern 175 & I rode their 7.5 inch gauge miniature train twice and I saw a few layouts
U have done a good job on all the locos u done
I really, really like your Great Eastern 552. Something less traditional like a FS Class 670 would be a really cool build IMO. It would be cool to see your list of possible ideas that you're considering building.
They look amazing. It would be a great to get them professionally printed on industrial printers and painted by specialists to see what can be done with your designs.
Hi Sam, great video, it's amazing how far you've come with the quality of the models. I'm sure that greater advances in quality will be achieved in the next few years by the improvement of both 3D printers and the materials used, giving a much better finish at conception. It would have been nice to have seen an example of the construction and assembly of one of your chassis, also the various parts used both purchased and 3D printed. Perhaps another time? Regards Barry.
Great video Sam! Love seeing how you've improved from that first design, but even that was an accomplishment, if I had to suggest an engine for you to try create, maybe try out the L&YR Class 24? Keep up the good work!
Sam they are all good but they are getting better and better. Good job
Awesome video Sam's trains
Thanks Brian! :D
@@SamsTrains you're welcome 😊 buddy 😊
You can help the weight issue by using heavier filament or adding tungsten beads.
6:14 fun fact, manning wardle also made the first three locomotives for my country! 🇲🇹🇲🇹🇲🇹
Ooh interesting!! What country are you from?? :D
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
@@SamsTrains Malta my bro!
I actually attempting to kind of build a custom train using the copperknob chassis In some 3D slicer softwares They allow you to put multiple creations on to 1 platform and print all of them together so I took the chassis and mashed it together In the body that sits on the chassis is a 0-4-0 birdy engine
haha that sounds amazing... did it work!??!
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
Polar cloud is the software I used and it does work The wheels did fit inside the copperknob chassis Buy using some of the other engines details I covered up some of copper knobs that I could not remove
552 is incredibly amazing!
I'm a big fan of Gladstone, I hope to see a RTR model of it at some point
*EDIT* Ah yes a suggestion I have is a very fun locomotive for you to build: the Y10 0-4-0 "Super Sentinel" as seen on the Wisbech and Upwell Tramway
wow what a nice video, this really shows what you can do with persistence and dedication. Something that I've found out recently regarding the manning Wardle L class is that there's 2 others preserved, one being Matthew Murray on the Middleton Railway In storage after its boiler ticket expired in 2021, and the other being Abernant on the Great Central Railway undergoing restoration as of February of last year.
I’m a engineer of yours and I love your self made trains so much I’ve watched it twice now!
Hello Sam lovely locomotives you have created, an engine that I'd consider making is the Furness railway K2 class. I haven't seen many others attempt making this one.
If you're looking to do a larger engine then GWR no 111 'The Great Bear' would be neat. It uses the same diameter wheels as a Castle so they would be easy to get.
Either that or a GWR 'River' class, an elegant early 2-4-0 design, would look great running alongside your City or Dean Goods engines.
Being a latecomer the GER 552 is my favourite as its the one I saw you develop in real time.
As for suggestions, one of the East Kent Light Railway SECR O class locomotives could be an interesting one, neither an O nor an O1, having features of each. The Light Railway Profiles book on the line covers it, and other parts of the railway in question too.
That’s quite a good locomotive, Sam!! The only thing is that it’s a H0 rather than a 00!!
Reminds me ive been working on a light rail tramtrain (a Siemens S70) and its gonna be in a sound transit paint scheme since thats what my local trains are painted in
Hi Sam, these look marvelous! What's even more impressive is that those are FDM-printed. But, as I've said before, you should really try resin-printers! You'll find quality and resolution to just be mind-blowing! I can have details of (at most) 0.15mm in size, meaning, for example separate leaf springs in a suspension, or a separate holder for a handrail, and the handrails can actually be round! Even rivets on a boiler are possible.
Oh, it's a year-old video, and you've already switched to resin. Never mind then)
Impressively designed, engineered and produced RUNNING train engines. The painting is also near professional quality. Thanks for sharing these really nice train engines.
Wow your 3D Printed UK Steam locomotives look phenomenal. I need my uncle to make me some locomotives like these because I don’t have a 3D printer! :)
1950's scifi themed, something from the buster crabbe era buck rodgers or flash gorden, it would be nice to have a couple of rocket ships running round.
You should look into the locomotives that worked at Dowlais Ironworks. They’re are some pretty unique looking locomotives, one of them looks nearly identical to Thomas. The livery is pretty easy to reproduce. So if you want something industrial to add to your layout, they would be a good choice.
Good video here Sam, some of those models do look very good, since I don’t have any 3D printing equipment yet the only ways I have made models is by either buying kits or taking an original made model by a manufacturer and doing modifications to the model.
That's fair enough David - the professional stuff will probably always be better than 3D printing!
Thanks for watching, Sam :)
Last summer
on the first
of fifteen days
of BritRailPass
took an early
ride to York
entered
the National
looked
at my left
and at a distance
the first I catched
was the Gladstone
so I yelled
to myself
Sam's Trains!