Thats OK Dave, I mangled something together that doesnt look half bad, pics soon.
New trailing truck added
(http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/vsmith/Chloe10.JPG)
Chloe is now a Forney
(http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/vsmith/Chloe11.JPG)
(http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/vsmith/Chloe13.JPG)
Rear showing the coupler
(http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/vsmith/Chloe12.JPG)
Looks like Pete the Pup has a new ride.
Victor Smith said:
“You better like it or I’ll bite you.”
John Le Forestier said:Down, Pete! I like it.
"You better like it or I'll bite you."
Looks good!
Not gonna edit my post …going real time and asking if the yellow tape on the cab top could be reflective in a 45 degree slice with standard OSHA spacing. I also think it needs ditch lights. Just the addition of the rear “bumper” would have been nothing I would have thought to do but it makes “baby got back”. Sorry youth flashback 
(http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f72/Shortybear/CVRR%20Utility/007-2.jpg)
(http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f72/Shortybear/CVRR%20Utility/006.jpg)
(http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/vsmith/Chloe%2015.JPG)
I couldnt leave it well enough alone, the base Chloe is still under there but its more interesting looking with the saddletank
Either the boiler’s too small or the tank’s too big.
John, I think the dome might be a tad high, I need to let the paint dry for a few days then I’ll look at cutting the dome down to below the cab roof. The tank is sitting right on top of the boiler, its just a BIG tank. I think unlike the Bobbercab which is finished, I’ll be fiddling with this one for a while, but I do like the direction its going, a poor mans Olomana
Poor man’s, HA! Built on a butchered Chloe! :o
Both locos are nearly identical. Same cab, bunker, boiler, visible mechanism. Only the tank, color and the boiler-top details differ, as far as i hacve been able to determine. Yours will be a hybrid, so different from all the rest. But I’m not sure a poor man would butcher a Chloe. I have one, and I’m too much of a coward, or too poor! :lol:
Considering I started with a box of parts I consider myself guiltless in my butchering of the sacred Chloe (and my NIB Chloe packed away under my bench…my precious 
)
I figure at the going rate of these things on Ebay I’ll never see another affordable Olomana in my lifetime, So if I want one I’ll have to make one or something close.
I hear ya, Victor… Here’s a pic of my two babies for you to drool over. Bought when the price was a BIT lower…
(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/choochoo_chaboogie/_forumfiles/Twobabies.jpg)
(http://www.maskworld.com/pix/masks/r955-gollum-maske-mask.jpg)
Jealous we iz, he has the preciouzzzz…
Come on up and visit anytime, Vic!
Tanks added, so far…I like
(http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/vsmith/Chloe18.JPG)
(http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/vsmith/Chloe16.JPG)
(http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/vsmith/Chloe17.JPG)
Added some brass guides to keep the truck and coupler from swing wildly about while handling
(http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/vsmith/Chloe19.JPG)
Still missing a few bits, I need to scrounge up some whistle/safety valves and I have a little detail painting to do but for the most part I think this will be it for a while .
Looks sharp! I like the rear truck, looks better than the “original”.
Gonna find a scale rubber chicken to hang from the roof eaves?
'Way cute…