The locomotive Workshop welded tender kit has arrived and it is over the top!The tender floor is a solid brass billet 1/8" thick!No instructions so I will have to figure out how to assemble it.
Very heavy!
Trucks test fitted..
Added two truck bolsters made out if brass tubing with a plastic insert.
Try the adhesive route...see if it works!
Starting to look like a tender..tge brass panel will slide back and off should truck service/replacement become necessary...
One major advantage of the abnormally thick tender floor is the ease in which the ladder was assembled.Just put it in the bench vise!
Fitted a piece of textured plastic to simulate a coal .it is removable.
philo - You certainly are rockin' it throw-back style. Enjoying the progress shots.
Thanks!it is going well thus far!
Decals were a bit tricky!Just have to add the draw bar abd coupler!
Wow! Man, you are just moving right along with that thing, like a man on a mission! Looks great!
Thanks!
Looks good. When I used to custom paint brass, I had to bake on the finish with an old toaster oven.
Well I used Painters Touch 2x primer and paint abd let it cure for 3 days ,sometimes baking in the sun. Results are quite good and the finish has no orange peel !Spray paint is a lot better now!
Draw bar installed.
Went with a Kadee O scale coupler.Small compared to O gauge but they mesh.Might install the other Kadee Coupler on this Atlas O scale IC boxcar..
philo426 Decals were a bit tricky!Just have to add the draw bar abd coupler!
Here's something about decals:
in a previous lifetime, I painted an H0 Pennsy GG1 in Tuscan, but then had to apply decals. The stripes were tricky, but when I got to the railroad name, I thought to myself:
" Couldn't
I have picked a railroad with a shorter name....."
Nice work! It looks great.
York1 John
Thanks guys!The long NYC decal was a bit nerve wracking.Didnt have any spares to speak of so a mess up was not an option!
Very handsome combo!
Wow, what a fantastic job you did! Looks great! I'm surprised Roger Carp hasn't contacted you about the possibility of doing a "CTT" article about the project.
By the way, how's it run?
I concur on how nerve-wracking those loooooong New York Central decals can be. I messed up one myself, luckily I had a spare.
I wish someone would do some Susquehanna decals though. I couldn't hand letter that one on a tender without giving myself a nervous breakdown!
Well it is an old MTH 4-8-2 chassis that I got cheap because the electronics had been stripped out and just made it run forward only.Will go around 0-31 curves but I am planning on wider radius curves!
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