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Vic's 2026 Mik Challenge Darjeeling Streamliner

The MIK - Annual Build Challenge
#61

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Found another :crazy_face:

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#62

Do you still have that pizza Vic? If so, I’ll suggest that you might embellish it, by taking Chris’ course on figure making, and making a beaver angry enough for a railroad to be named after!

Perhaps… a figure of a truly angry ancestor beaver; figures of his very angry entended family; evidences of their mahem; townfolk trying to either contain or abate them; and maybe slimy business guys harnessing them for work on a local dam or lumber operation…

:grin:

#63

Sorry, I forgot I was posting on the Darjeeling thread, carry on.

#64

It’s been wonderful watching your modeling skills being honed over the years. Well done, young lad!

#65

Thanks Chris

Cliff, no I sold it a few years ago. I was made an offer I couldn’t refuse. It’s somewhere in Colorado today. I’m hoping to include a similar bridge scene on the indoor layout expansion.

I’m currently working on that 4th passenger car. I’ll take a couple pics latter.

#66

In the meantime, here’s a potential mascot:

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#67

Painted and lettered, all that left is clearcoating the letters then spraying with clear matte or satin finish. The passenger car needs interior seats, I can work on that this weekend. Dang, I think I’m done for the most part.

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#68

very late, this year.

#69

That came out better than I even expected! Looks really great. Congratulations!

#70

Thanks a lot, Chris, I’m still fiddling with a few things, headlight, passenger cars.

#71

Looks great Vic! Very nice build.

DG

#72

Thanks Don, appreciate it.

#73

That is a cool looking train and the blue is nice.

What is the top speed on that bullet?

#74

This is the first time I’ve seen someone build a streamliner Vic, and you really hit it out of the park.

#75

Todd an audacious incredibly blistering speed of 30 mph!!!

#76

Thanks Cliff, I finished it way faster than I expected.

Don’t I say that every year?

#77

Since I have a few more days I decided to build a baggage car using the chassis of the LBH tender and copying the Buddy L passenger cars dimensions. Once again using sheet styrene and wood reinforcement.

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Some pics of the finished on the layout.

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#79

And we have video, at the breathing speed of 30mph. :crazy_face:

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#80

That’s excellent, Vic! I love how that turned out!