Whadahellizit. A new engine I swore I would never build.
Those with long, and I mean looooong memories, will remember I once built several Mack variants called Whadahellizit. Well against my better judgement I bid on and won a “G scale” yeah right, Disney Mickey train set, which despite being advertised as G I was 90% sure wasn’t, and it wasnt, it was O-ish. Not only that it on arrival was the crappiest piece of crap train set I have ever seen. Feast your eyes upon this cheesyness:
Had it been G I would have relished the chance to turn stinky Limburger into a nice Camembert, but it wasn’t to be, so it just sat there for months and I kept swearing I was going to toss the whole lot as it so awful. When the Miks Challenge came this was one of my considered projects, to try and turn this foul pigs ear into a nice silk purse of a gypsy engine. Post Miks, I got bored one weekend and started cutting. I cut the pigs ear up, the tender and tossed the rest, it was beyond salvage IMO. I decided to use a Mack drive brick under and started building, the gypsy critter being the result. I still need to add some bolt heads, and some piping but overall its a nice addition to the Whadahellizit lineup. It would be painted, but when I went to Burbank House of Hobbies to get some Tamiya acrylics, they were out. Guy said “prop 65” was delaying the delivery as they had to re-label all there product line to inform me that use of such paints might cause my head to explode or some other nonsense.
Just realized the picture makes it look like the glue bottle is driving the engine.
