Large Scale Central

Beginner's kitbashing effort

Modeling
#1

I had a beat up old LGB 2117 that I decided to redo. almost exactly like the one below, in this picture taken from ebay

I wanted it to say “washington & old dominion” and to look less like a toy train and a little more modern looking. So–stripped off the LGB decals, repainted it, decal’ed it, lowered the steam dome, made new stack, added a new whistle, painted the bell and the number plate, added a new headlight, a few other little things. It’s not quite done, but I’m pretty pleased

The whistle, headlight, and pop valve came from an old Bachmann big hauler. The stack came from an old deabolt/lock assembly–it happened to be a perfect fit with a little cutting Sorry for the poor picture quality–my wife has our camera and she’s on a trip, I had to use the camera built into my laptop. I need to add remote control, and a coupler, glue the headlight down and maybe…gulp…weather it. I’ll probably remove that pop up valve. Maybe add a pull cable for the whistle

#2

Looking good. I like the lowered steam dome and new stack. A good look.

#3

Looks great. Nice colors :wink: .

-Brian

#4

Nice work!

#5

That’s a big improvement, Mike! BZ!

#6

Thanks! And yes Brian, thanks for the paint scheme I really should cut the “eyebrows” off the windows, but I was afraid I’d mess it up too much The W&OD actually owned a couple 0-4-4 forneys that it bought from the NYC elevated line. It’d be fun to model one of those. Does nayone make an 0-4-4 forney? Hartland makes a 2-4-4 The W&OD owned some really comical rolling stock, like this:

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(http://www.lscdata.com/users/lownote/_forumfiles/583c.jpg)

It’d be a lot of fun to model the W&OD. Mostly electric and diesel though. Hmmmm…

#7

Yea, Mike it needs a little weathering judging by the pix of the W&OD…weathering takes practice, gotta start somewhere.

#8

Ken

The RR is a joint project with my wife–and she doesn’t like weathering–she likes everything to look new and clean. Go figure! Also I’m a novice at weathering. I’m going out this weekend to Jim Strong’s woodland railway, Kevin Strong will be there, maybe I can gets some pointers. And since my wife is coming along, maybe I can get her to see the value of weathering!

#9

The shorter stack and dome on the 0-4-0 definitely changes the look. Next, ya gotta do that bus. That’s just too cool for words.

BTW, I got your e-mail about the 44-tonner. We can chat this weekend.

Later,

K

#10

I made a few more changes and took a better picture. It’s awaiting the arrival of an aristo slopeback tender (tomorrow, says UPS) before it can be called done. But the RC is installed and it runs well, though it barely pulls more than two full length cars.

(http://www.lscdata.com/users/lownote/_forumfiles/tank1.jpg)

My wife loves the “cute” ones. She never wants me to weather anything on the garden railway. Pretty much consistent with her in house policies… Anyway it has a new whistle and whistle pull, made out of a guitar string, and I made a toolbox out of wood and styrene and brass and modified a generator from a big hauler. Guitar strings are great for bell and whistle pulls, imho.

#11
mike omalley said:
She never wants me to weather anything on the garden railway. Pretty much consistent with her in house policies...
You could "accidentally" spill that cup of dirty tan acrylic wash on your loco. ;)

-Brian

#12

Small engines like that wouldn’t be pulling many cars anyway. Good job, you can’t call yourself a 'Beginner" anymore either…:wink:

#13

Mike,
Just leave it outside for a few days and take advantage of some natural weathering.

That really looks good.

#14

Sweet job. The new photo is better too :wink: