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Spoiler, I solved it! @Cranesbill
Cranesbill's blog for context
https://gbatemp.net/blogs/building-thomas-the-tank-engine-pt-1.19948/
Cranesbill found this guy who made his own Thomas model, and wanted to replicate it
Sadly, despite the video being titled a "tutorial" it is anything but, it's sort of a hodgepodge of progress about how TankEngine JonJon made his own brass Thomas without much hard info included. However, on a watch I was able to sleuth out where to find his laser cut files
Enter: the thomas modeling god known as jamostrainos https://x.com/jamostrainos
And guess what, jamostrainos has a whole googledrive folder with premade files that can be sent off for custom brass cutting
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1SAmk-GkxgWkj7mipNmT5OC1ysxUTo8F5
Just mozy on over to the thomas files here, and it includes the pieces for brass cutting AND for 3d printing (the pieces that can't be made by machine brass cutting alone)
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12Nhd0nk5uRpemwVFuZ8N-o_ewAYs3Hq_
And tada open FreeCAD (or your other favorite CAD software) and open those DXF files and see them in their perfectly cut glory
Disclaimer: these are more updated than the ones from last year's TankEngine JonJon video, so while they aren't exactly the same, they are actually a better model overall with kinks fixed
Attached are some files I used to verify all the pieces are there (and helpful file names under pieces to make it clear what goes where) - if you look closely a couple of these pieces will need to be printed twice
No more blueprints needed :3
Cranesbill's blog for context
https://gbatemp.net/blogs/building-thomas-the-tank-engine-pt-1.19948/
Cranesbill found this guy who made his own Thomas model, and wanted to replicate it
Sadly, despite the video being titled a "tutorial" it is anything but, it's sort of a hodgepodge of progress about how TankEngine JonJon made his own brass Thomas without much hard info included. However, on a watch I was able to sleuth out where to find his laser cut files
Enter: the thomas modeling god known as jamostrainos https://x.com/jamostrainos
And guess what, jamostrainos has a whole googledrive folder with premade files that can be sent off for custom brass cutting
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1SAmk-GkxgWkj7mipNmT5OC1ysxUTo8F5
Just mozy on over to the thomas files here, and it includes the pieces for brass cutting AND for 3d printing (the pieces that can't be made by machine brass cutting alone)
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12Nhd0nk5uRpemwVFuZ8N-o_ewAYs3Hq_
And tada open FreeCAD (or your other favorite CAD software) and open those DXF files and see them in their perfectly cut glory
Disclaimer: these are more updated than the ones from last year's TankEngine JonJon video, so while they aren't exactly the same, they are actually a better model overall with kinks fixed
Attached are some files I used to verify all the pieces are there (and helpful file names under pieces to make it clear what goes where) - if you look closely a couple of these pieces will need to be printed twice
No more blueprints needed :3
