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Friday, 5 June 2026

Project 26 - Hewish Gates #7

The display case was made from 1200 x 600 x 2mm Wickes Acrylic Sheet, cut with a Dremel and the panels glued together with Superglue. It is not fully dust proof as there is no rear acrylic panel or seals between it and the diorama.  At least it protects the model from finger poking damage.

I have in mind to make two improvements to the model, if I ever get around to doing so. 

The backscene should be professionally printed as one piece instead of the three I printed on A4 sheets. This will eliminate the joins and colour imbalance of the three sheets.

One of the level crossing gates takes on an angle when closed to the road. These gates were fabricated from two Airfix/Dapol level crossing sets (nothing wrong with that) long before I acquired a 3D resin printer. The resin printer now gives opportunity for a redesign to improve detail of the gates and their posts to represent the prototype more accurately and I'll take greater care in setting the gates uniformly.

One last posting in this series next.

To Part 1.



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