I am not very original and want to mount the figures and tools that came with my 3TS but can’t find a picture of one that has them mounted. You know, the tool box, water cooler vise, etc. Can someoine point me in the right directionplease.
Pretty much wherever you would like to put them…theres no set place for any of it…just think about where and how a scale person would use them on and around the engine…Running boards and tender tops and decks collected all sorts of stuff…find ya some scale milk cans too…those were found all over for keeping grease and oil in…I found mine in some wood turnings at a craft shop…
Every Shay has a Water Can for the Enginemen to drink from somewhere on the Tender area. Bachmann supplies one with their Shays in the detail pack. Put the small wrenches in the Tool Box. The Rerailers can go anywhere. You can set them on the Running Boards or build hangers for them under the Water/Coal/Oil Bunker sides. The Jack and other larger tools can be placed either on the Water Bunker deck or on the Running Boards, or both. The Water/Fire Hose supplied by Bachmann is pretty lame and needs to be replaced. Pop out the end details and toss the plastic hose into your junk box for later use. I used a piece of woven cotton rope with the core strings removed, to replace my hose. Just soak the rope in thinned white glue and stretch the rope until it is dry. Then stuff the end details into the ends of the rope and glue them in. I painted my rope/hose an off-white color and then put a thin wash or brown over it. It hangs on the curved brackets on the Fireman’s side of the loco. I threaded mine under the steps on the Cab sides as per the prototype. Shays had all kinds of crap all over them, and even well-maintained ones are oily and greasy and drippy! Chains hanging all over the Handrails are good, and coiled ropes and other junk. Have fun! Every Shay is different, so why shouldn’t yours be too? Remember, research is GOOD. Look at as many pictures as you can of what you are modeling.
Thank Bart and Andrew for your input. I should have it done in the next month. Kinda hectic around the home 20 lately not much time to play.
Andrew Moore said:Actually...thats a SUCTION hose.......as such its a little stiffer and is generally a hard reinforced rubber.......its made for siphoning water OUT of whatever source is handy....
Every Shay has a Water Can for the Enginemen to drink from somewhere on the Tender area. Bachmann supplies one with their Shays in the detail pack. Put the small wrenches in the Tool Box. The Rerailers can go anywhere. You can set them on the Running Boards or build hangers for them under the Water/Coal/Oil Bunker sides. The Jack and other larger tools can be placed either on the Water Bunker deck or on the Running Boards, or both. The Water/Fire Hose supplied by Bachmann is pretty lame and needs to be replaced. Pop out the end details and toss the plastic hose into your junk box for later use. I used a piece of woven cotton rope with the core strings removed, to replace my hose. Just soak the rope in thinned white glue and stretch the rope until it is dry. Then stuff the end details into the ends of the rope and glue them in. I painted my rope/hose an off-white color and then put a thin wash or brown over it. It hangs on the curved brackets on the Fireman's side of the loco. I threaded mine under the steps on the Cab sides as per the prototype. Shays had all kinds of crap all over them, and even well-maintained ones are oily and greasy and drippy! Chains hanging all over the Handrails are good, and coiled ropes and other junk. Have fun! Every Shay is different, so why shouldn't yours be too? Remember, research is GOOD. Look at as many pictures as you can of what you are modeling.
Hi Bart, and thanks for the input. Since I last posted I have bought a 1600+ pictures of real operating Shays DVD/CD. I am looking at them and seeing how it really was and it really was as andrew said. No two the same.
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For the hose I used a heavy gauge wire used for outdoors and covered it with a large shoe lace. As bart said it’s a suction hose not a fire type hose.
Those suction-type hoses are usually heavy rubber wall to withstand collapse from the suction’s negative pressure. They show a spiral pattern on the outside due to being wrapped with a rubberized fabric that protects the surface from abrasion. They are quite stiff, and really don’t look at all like a fire hose, because they aren’t a fire hose. They are typically a ‘light’ shade of black and get more gray as they are used and age.
The hose Bachmann provides is pretty good, both in terms of size and flexibility. I think it mostly needs the spiral covering, and some weathering, but I haven’t tried fixing one yet.
Take a look at the suction hoses on a fire engine. Those are the large diameter, almost rigid, black hoses usually hanging in brackets on the outside of the fire engine’s hose bed. They are better maintained, so tend to be more black than ones on a steam engine, but the stiffness and spiral pattern are similar.
Happy RRing,
Jerry