2026 Mik’s Build Challenge, Post your Glamor Shot Photos HERE for Voting

[Dave_Taylor]

Dave_Taylor

Feb '26

PLEASE DO NOT POST COMMENTS ABOUT BUILDS IN THIS THREAD.

Post them in the individual build threads.

This thread is for pictures of the builds for voting.

Each participant needs to post his Glamor photos and comments of his finished or unfinished challenge build.

Please identify who you are, and what you built, and any other comment you would want to tell about your build.

Please keep this thread clean of comments about the builds.

And limit posting to the participants of Mik’s build Challenge 2026.

[Cliff_Jennings]

I’m Cliff, and here’s my Very Large Nugget Transport Car.

This is a 1:20.3 scale car (due to the figures), and the nugget was carefully made to 20.3:1.

The nugget is authentic.

After some linguistic negotiation with Korm, the long name was determined to be:
Großgoldklumpenoderklieneeisbergeisenbahnschwertransportwagen
(big ass gold nugget or itsy bitsy iceberg heavy railroad transport car).

I’d bought a contour-measuring tool for nugget supports, but ended up not using it. So, cost = $0. However, I’m making $0.15 whenever someone kisses the beak.

https://youtube.com/shorts/O2MtFMpOcm0

[VicSmith]

Vic Smith’s Darjeeling Streamliner. Based on a real (zany) locomotive. Built on a Lil Big Hauler loco, The passenger cars i had previously made from old toy train car. Total costs approx $15.

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Link to building log:
https://largescalecentral.com/t/vics-2026-mik-challenge-darjeeling-streamliner/85761/81

[Turbo4whl (Wayne Powell)]

Here is my Flux Capacitor build:

Practice makes better, still learning.

Link to build

[Chriswalas]

Here’s my Jabberwok loco and cars. I had a blast doing this one. I could have brought this in for $O, but I wanted a different color for the caboose; so out of pocket expense… $8.99 for a can of spray paint. Every car has at least one LED, the loco has 12.

[Todd_Brody]

With the recent weather, the lighting has not been conducive to taking pics with any depth of field…,

Still…, in the past few years, we had taken in a couple rescue dogs and these now take most of my time and attention. In addition to the garden railroad, one of my other passions is vintage Corvettes. So why not “merge” dogs and cars and see what that would “yield?”

One takes their dog to the “dog park” expecting a park-like setting with trees and grass to play on. But when one takes their car to the “auto park” they expect something quite different, such as parking spaces and even a parking structure. So…, what if:

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And if a picture is worth a thousand words, a video must be worth a poop-load.

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Total cost was $21.32 including sales tax.

[capecodtodd (Todd Haskins)]

I hope yall get a kick out of this build. It surely is a shoe in for the funkiest, wackiest conveyance this or any other RR has ever seen!

I put my best foot forward and actually finished the Boot early but still wanted to build something so I built a facade of the original LL Bean factory. The Boot and Building go together nicely I think. I did have to finish the building after the end of the challenge so don’t count that as part of my build. In total, a pair of boots $17 (used one) a pack of air dry clay $4 (didn’t use much) and the rest I had on foot… I mean hand, on hand.

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