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Banta Modelworks boxcab

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#21

Building the base now.

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#22

(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/bob_mccown/RollingStock/banta_boxcab/IMGP0739.JPG)

#23

Well nobody will have a problem seein it…:wink:

#24

I like the color!

#25

Is that Rangoon Red? That was a Ford color in the 60’s :slight_smile:

#26

I like that Bob. I need to build one.

#27
Jon Radder said:
Is that Rangoon Red? That was a Ford color in the 60's :)
Allis-Chalmers orange. Local hardware store has all the farm equipment colors.

Pondering doing black chevron stripes on the front…

#28

Gulf colors come to mind

#29

A bit more work. Added brass steps, painted the grab irons, and installed the headlight.

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#30

Holy Cow! Give the man a cigar.

#31

Love the color! Looks really neat with that power block!

#32

This is about as far as I can go until I get the innards. Time to order!

#33

You won’t need a sound system with that color!

Bob

#34

Very nice Bob! And I like the color.

#35

The Aristocraft Revolution sound RX are finally around, so I got ahold of one of the diesel ones. Here’s the innards setup for the boxcab, laid out for a sound/control test. Not too bad.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkMTJV1xB_o[/youtube]

It’ll all fit nicely into the boxcab. Probably have the speaker go out the front grille.

#36

Groooooovy…hope the steam sounds that good…

#37

Hey Bob, I don’t know if it’s your camera or how far you were from the speaker but that sounded much better than the other clips I’ve heard. Sounds great!

#38

It does sound pretty decent. The first clip I heard from Aristo was not good.
I’ve heard a few others since and they’ve all sounded pretty good.
Ralph

#39

Yes that sounded much better to me also . While switching cars , will that bell sound all of the time like in the video ? Can it be silenced so it does not ring so much ?
Thanks

#40

Bob McCown said:
Hi folks In the pursuit of a boxcab, I came across the Banta Modelworks boxcab kit. http://www.bantamodelworks.com/T2127.html It arrived yesterday, so I thought I’d do a build-along thread. I’m deviating from it in that Im not using a Bachmann Davenport power truck (since I dont have one on hand), and, instead using an LGB three-axle one out of my parts bin.

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The kit arrives in a nice cardboard box, and the parts are bagged in what I assume are three sub-assemblies.

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Three double-sided pages of instructions are included. They apparently are the same for the On30 flavor of this kit, since there are both 1:20.3 and On30 mentioned here and there on the pages.

(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/bob_mccown/RollingStock/banta_boxcab/IMGP0723.JPG)

Nice work Dennis. I don’t recognise the motor block as LGB however.