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Challenger Bash from two Pacifics

General Discussion
#61

Thanks guys. Not sure of the weight, but it is heavy. I used the weights that came with the Pacifics I bashed, so about twice what one of them weights, I would say. I got the cow catcher done last nite. Used the one from the Pacific as a base(cut off the uprights, except for the sides), added a top and middle triangle the size of the bottom shape(also filled it in). I then put in some plastic uprights, filling between with some channel that I had filed a curve into. Screwed right back into the old holes. Came out pretty close.

(http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/jerrybarnes/Challenger%20Kitbash%20Build/ChallCowCtchr.JPG)

#62

It just gets better and better Jerry. I hope someday I have half the talent you do. Excellent work!

-Will

#63

Thanks Will,
Still working out a few problems, but I’m sure it will be fine in the end. Glad you made it through the storms okay.

#64

Jerry, that’s a nice choo choo!

#65

Thanks Jerry ^^ The storms were rough. I’ll be making a pilgrimeage to St. Louis soon to see BigBoy in person. I’m planning the trip with quite a few railbuffs. Then I need to see Challenger in person and I’ll be a happy man. But yours is real nice to see running in the meantime. Keep up the good work!

-Will

#66

Chall is running east to Omaha on 19 June.

#67

Except for some weathering and a few minor details the Challenger is pretty well finished. Had a good time making it, was much more of a project than I envisioned. Had to keep changing the plan as I went along, but it was fun solving the problems, which is what I like about modeling.

(http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/jerrybarnes/Challenger%20Kitbash%20Build/ChallDone1.JPG)

Loco is 32" long tender is 18"

(http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/jerrybarnes/Challenger%20Kitbash%20Build/ChallDone3.JPG)

I made the tenders side frames from 3 layers of 1/16" plastic. The journals were made as a master and I cast all of them. Front truck on the tender is a USA Big Boy.

(http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/jerrybarnes/Challenger%20Kitbash%20Build/ChallDone4.JPG)

#68

Jerry I am pulling this one back up to ask if you have planes for this? or did you just wing it from pictures?

If anyone has plans for a Challenger could you let me know. I’m thinking about having one built for me and I need a set of plans for them to fallow. thanks
Geoff

#69

Geoff
I have the line drawing out of the Steam Locomotive Encyclopedia
I’ll try to copy it but it’s on a 2 page spread.
Rodney

#70

Rodney,
These plans are for the ride on size, but he will make them to any size you want. I had him make me 1/29 plans for 844 and the Challenger and the tender. I just got the side views and went from there. You can get Boxpox wheel castings from Roberts Lines, but I guess you’ll make your own! :slight_smile:
http://www.livesteamlocomotives.com/union_pacific_drawings.html
Nice guy to deal with. The smaller plans are cheaper also.

My Challenger runs nice and smooth. I took out the gears in the front drive and went with a Delrin sprocket and chain setup. Gears were noisy.

#71

Ew! I like the wrinkles in the tender, that looks more like the prototype not a model. Good work, Jerry. Thanks for sharing.

#72

Thanks Ric,
I re-did the tender, now it’s smooth! Sorry!

#73

Are the real ones smooth? The ones I’ve seen have wrinkled under the stress of the weight.

#74

Ric Golding said:
Are the real ones smooth? The ones I’ve seen have wrinkled under the stress of the weight.

I agree!! Liked that tender shot as well. Nice work!:slight_smile:

(http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/jerrybarnes/Challenger%20Kitbash%20Build/ChallDone4.JPG)