How'bout an Engine bashed from a RADIO?

[vsmith]

How'bout a Mack bashed from a RADIO?

No kiddin'.. I bought a model of a CP Huntington of Evilbay that was advertised in the G scale section, what they didn't say was while it was actually somewhere close to 1/32 scale it was a static model and on top of that a really old, very old, am/fm radio! The domes were the knobs and the bunker held the batteries. Well I mulled it over for a while, then tore it apart (sorry, no before pics) to see what parts I could salvage from it, after drawing a couple sketches I eventually hit on a bash using whats simply become my favorite large scale engine, a Mack, I had one from Gold Coast, only one he had at the time was a clear one, which I  carved up and got:

I kept the interior simple, as it's just a fun project

After a while I finally got around to painting it, weathering looks more subtle in person, flash tends to over emphisis it.

[ttrigg]

Vic:  That monster looks more like a steam powered coffin than an engine.  What kind of pulling power does it have?

[vsmith]

Hi Tom, I need to add some self adhesive lead weights to the underside, once i do that it has the same power as a regular mack. I dont want to overstrain the gears.

[ttrigg]

Just how tall is that puppy?  Don't know if it is just my trifocals foolin me, but it looks to be twice the height of anything I seen before.

[vsmith]

Its really no taller that any of the others, its just what happens when upscaling a smaller scale model. Thats a older Bachmann 1/22.5 big hauler figure in the cab.

[hoofe116]

Vic,

Okay, I'm seriously confused. (This is not difficult to accomplish). First, did you bash the am/fm radio into what's pictured, or did you use a different engine's components and mix 'em both together? Second, is that a freelance, or did something like that actually exist, more or less as depicted? (Using 'more or less' in the loosest sense).

I have this thing for homely engines. That thing is seriously homely. It is also seriously neat. That concept could work very well on my backwoods SL. It looks like you put the shell down on 'something'--what was it? I'm speaking of the power brick, I suppose you'd call it.

Because you also posted 'in work' pixes, it seems a rank amateur like me could fab up something like that. I have an LGB track inspection car. But I think it's too short to work like what you did, and I want to stay 'near or around' F scale.

An admirable piece of work. Thanks for posting the series of pixes.

Oh, duh! 'A Mack'. An HLW Mack. Is that what you mean for a power chassis?

Lastly, could you post the L x W x H to the nearest 1/4"? Just so I have an idea.

Thanks,

Les

[vsmith]

hoofe116

Vic,

Okay, I'm seriously confused. (This is not difficult to accomplish). First, did you bash the am/fm radio into what's pictured, or did you use a different engine's components and mix 'em both together? Second, is that a freelance, or did something like that actually exist, more or less as depicted? (Using 'more or less' in the loosest sense).

I have this thing for homely engines. That thing is seriously homely. " src="http://cs.trains.com/emoticons/icon_smile_wink.gif"> It is also seriously neat. That concept could work very well on my backwoods SL. It looks like you put the shell down on 'something'--what was it? I'm speaking of the power brick, I suppose you'd call it.

Because you also posted 'in work' pixes, it seems a rank amateur like me could fab up something like that. I have an LGB track inspection car. But I think it's too short to work like what you did, and I want to stay 'near or around' F scale.

An admirable piece of work. Thanks for posting the series of pixes.

Oh, duh! 'A Mack'. An HLW Mack. Is that what you mean for a power chassis?

Lastly, could you post the L x W x H to the nearest 1/4"? Just so I have an idea.

Thanks,

Les

 

Les, YES - it was a plastic toy AM radio model in the shape of the CP Huntington, about 1/32 scale, it came on a plastic base with very bad looking fixed wheels, I completely dismembered it saved the parts shown and tossed the radio guts, base and wheels, and rebuilt it with some basswood strips all on top of a HLW Mack chassis and drive block. Its totaly freelanced. I'll have to measure it, but its not much taller than a standard Mack and no longer or wider.

LGB inspection car? I can't picture it, is that the truck? Pic?

I just bashed a LGB handcar chassis onto one of my Gooses that I shorted the motor out on, I had to cut it shorter to fit the small handcar body.