Large Scale Central

Bashing a Logging Tool Caboose

Modeling
#1

You take an ordinary LGB Bobber like this: I used a cheap old Santa Fe one out of a starter set I found at a swap meet. I forgot to take a pic of it before I started.

Remove all the stuff you don’t want.

Take a rasp and file off anything protruding past the siding on all for sides.

I want to bring this up to 1:20 ish, so I added 1/2" overall to the width by gluing on 1/4" strips.

Cut and file out a larger door on the windowless end. Glue it on the inside.

Glue on siding, “glass” and trim the door. do the same to the other end.

I put the original roof back on and glued some 1/16" strips to it.

Then glued some siding to the sides.

I glued some 1/16" thick by 2" wide roofing to the slats, and some siding to the porches.

I cut a hole for a chimney and glued on some “tar Paper” cloth.

I dug some scrap hardware out of the junk box, made some handrails and finished both ends.

Next I will paint it and show you how it looks behind a log train. Too cold for a train, but here’s the finished car.

#2

…grinning…

#3

Nice looks much better.

#4

How do you get to the roof?

#5

John:

Great looking conversion!!

I’ve got one that I had taken the truck off of. I was going to convert it to a two tuck unit. That was in my early LS days, before 1:20 became my scale of choice. Once I was committed to 1:20 scale, I saw that the doors and other items were way too small. I didn’t know what to do with the too small cupola either. It has been occupying space on a top shelf for well over 10 years.

Seeing what you did, I think I’ll try something similar. I still want to put mine on individual trucks, but I think I already had that figured out.

Thanks for sharing your conversion & the pix.

Happy RRing,

Jerry

#6

Very nice John. Looks great!

#7
Chuck Inlow said:
How do you get to the roof?
With an extension ladder. It's stored in the tool cubby.
#8

Very nice conversion. Thanks for sharing. Have to save this for another project to do.

#9

Looking good John. This whole idea of up-scaling existing stock is appealing to me. If I ever finish the 5 or 6 railroad projects I’ve already started I might see what i can do with some of the 1:24 stuff I have.