Bruce D. Chandler said:
Very nice, indeed! Sometimes, you don’t need it to actually run - I guess? Anyway, very nice work, and happy to see you posting…
Bruce,
I was going to chop this one up and rework it and try and get it to run. However, as a model its very nice. That isn’t even the finished product, it has since been lettered. I had never built anything close to it, prior. I was a model car guy and had super detailed some HO stuff and scratch built a few HO cars prior. But when I decided to get into large scale I jumped in the deep end and decided to build that. I was running blind. But there is some sentimental value t this build also. John C. over on My Large Scale gave me a bit of a hard time as a newbie. Basically saying I would be here today gone tomorrow, kinda had to prove myself. Don’t get me wrong he wasn’t being rude or mean just skeptical of my lofty ambitions (rightly so I guess since the loco in question has never run). It is also as close to a scale replica of the real CR&N #3 as anyone will ever get. There is one very bad picture of it (we think) and the knowledge of where it came from. From that I set off to build it.
It was fun, I learned a lot. Developed some techniques. Produced a nice model. No regrets. But now I need to sit down and build a working one.