Vic, I’m so impressed with your ability to create that wildly different loco body from something typical and even discarded. Looking forward to your next steps!
Thanks Cliff, I need to post pics. I gave up on coating that small section of Styrofoam after the 7th layer, I just sanded it as smooth as I could and moved onto the streamline sheathing. I used a sheet of paper bent over the framework to trace a pattern, that pattern was transferred to the styrene. It worked out perfectly. I’ll post pics later this morning.
Current pics, and no, I’m not finished 
Added riveting strips. I’m still debating cutting the side opening in the cab. It seams unnecessary. The prototype looks a bit like an amusement park ride. Instead I will probably open up the back of the cab for better visibility of the inside. Sometime this weekend I have to apply primer. Debating whether or not to try and add streamline striping once painted. I also need to find passenger car #4 for the consist. Two weeks left, still a lot to do.
I personally would not but I’m just a 
The thing is the cab is so small to start with I think it would look comically small. I’m going to open up the rear to start.
Our internet has been a nightmare this last week so I haven’t been able to keep up with all the builds. Vic, I’m really impressed! I love your approach to the forms, they really are working well. Good luck making it to the finish line. I’m getting a bit worried myself.
Very, very nice work Vic. I really like the build.
DG
and would that interfere with being whimsy?
Thanks guys.
Korm by comical I meant it would look more like something in an amusement part or park/zoo train. This still has to work on the layout with the car consist, plus I really kinda like the stock LBH cab as is.
I cut the back of the cab open, it looks really good so I’m leaving the cab as is. I’ve added a few last details and I’m ready to begin primer paint, but it’s like 60° here, not great for spray cans. Hopefully it will warm up this afternoon.
It’s like ZERO with no chance of it getting warmer here. SoI just heated my shop up to 80 and rattle canned away.
He’s not kidding, it was 7 degrees this morning here near Baltimore. With 100% unknown wintery precip starting tonight, lasting at least 24 hours, and no above-freezing days in the near future.
Yep, here too. I’ve never had my shop to 80! Set at 65 it gets too hot for me to work!!
@VicSmith 50F should be OK if you pre-warm the can in hot water and can bring them in to dry soon after spraying. That still gets the smell inside, unfortunately.
It warmed up to 70 today,I let the can warm in the sun and went ahead with primer and about an hour later the blue i used on the mini streamliner passenger cars. Now its just letting it dry a few hours.
my discount Darjeeling cars
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Ahh yes the Angry Beaver consist!
Needs HEP cabling though!
You know, Vic, I think I’m most impressed by those front curved plates. How did you plan them out?
For the pilot plates and the boiler front, I created a styrene and wood framework lined with a balsa or basswood edging. For the plates I took a thin paper sheet fixed with tape at one point usually a straight line point. Then I carefully worked the paper to the edges of the plate area using a pencil point then marked the plate edge with the pencil onto the paper creating a pattern, this pattern was then transferred to a sheet of styrene. I used 0.10 thick styrene because it is very easy to apply to a curved surface. I then test fit it, made slight trimmings, and then glued one side let it set, then slowly worked my way across the framework, gluing it down. Once glued and set I added the strips of 0.10 with rivets embossed. any gaps were eventually filled in with Alex painters caulk. For the roundy bit in front of the smokestake, thats a styrofoam ball with multiple Alex caulk coating till I had a smooth surface.
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Vic, I remember one of your pizza layouts that actually featured an angry beaver. Can you post a shot of him, for our general edification?
Cliff, This is pretty much all I could find, I lost a lot of photos.
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Thanks for looking, Vic. This beaver is indeed gnawing on a trestle bent, potentially evidencing some bitterness on his part, or at least suggesting some therapy on his behalf.
