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A Selection of Swindon Drawings
This collection of Swindon drawings was originally compiled by John Daniel as part of his excellent Great Western Archive, but was lost to the Internet until members of the GWR E-list brought them back through a joint effort. Note that the drawings are stored on a separate server, kindly hosted by Jim Champ.
For tips on how to convert the drawings to scale, please see Roger Swainson's useful notes below.
Reproducing the drawings to scale - by Roger Swainson:
The drawing archive is a most useful resource - but, whilst accurate, are not to any particular scale. I have found a relatively quick and simple way of re-producing them to a given scale which might be of interest to others. It's certainly much quicker than manually re-drawing the image to the required scale
It works with the programme I use for manipulating .jpeg images (Paintshop Pro) but I'm pretty certain it will work the same way with others:
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Save the image file to your PC |
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Open the image in Paintshop |
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Go to page set-up and set the printer to "fit image to page" |
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Print the image (in my case the Van to Diag V9) |
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Measure a convenient dimension as printed e.g. the wheelbase (in my case this printed as 106mm) |
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Calculate the percentage increase or decrease required to bring the dimension to its correct value (in this case 20' in 4mm or 80mm) i.e.80/106x100 = 75.47% |
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Open your printer settings utility, go to 'advanced settings' and create a 'user defined (custom) paper size to match the percentage change required. e.g. my original print was on A4 which is 29.70cm x 21.00cm - the custom page size was set to 22.41 x 15.85cm, i.e. 75.47% of A4, and named 'v9 for identification' |
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Repeat steps 3 & 4 setting the paper size to 'V9' and 'fit image to page' (no need to change 'actual' paper in printer!)' |
What you should now get is a printout with the wheelbase measuring 80mm - i.e. the drawing is now to 4mm scale.
Most 4mm drawings should fit onto an A4 page set to print in Landscape format - working in '0' gauge would probably require an A3 printer - but A3 inkjet printers can now be had for a reasonable sum.
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