the Monster is Here!!!! 3-19-06 Painting finished

[Anonymous]

looks great!

[Ray Dunakin]

Absolutely beautiful! Nice work!

A few questions...

On the construction pics, I'm assuming the white parts are styrene. Correct?

Did you produce the rivets by dimpling the styrene?

How did you make those bolts going around the top of the cylinders?

[vsmith]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Ray Dunakin

Absolutely beautiful! Nice work!

A few questions...

On the construction pics, I'm assuming the white parts are styrene. Correct?

Did you produce the rivets by dimpling the styrene?

How did you make those bolts going around the top of the cylinders?

Thanks Ray, to answer your Q's

Yes all the white stuff is styrene, sheet, shape, or tube, the boiler is styrene wrapped plumbing PVC pipe.

Yes I used .10 or .15 sheet styrene and a blunted nail in a pinvise to emboss onto a penciled in pattern on the reverse side then attached with solvent cement.

The cylinder heads on the engine are actually from an Ozark airtank endcaps, I thought they matched some cylinder heads from similar marine engines the Climax used for motors, If you look carefully you'll see the airtanks on the front have the same endcaps.

Thanks guys thats all for tonight, just spent 90 minutes doing a spyware sweep on this old tank of a 'puter, so I'm bushed. Later...

[John Busby]

Hi Vic
Was having a bit of a read on these 16 wheelers on the internet.
you cannot have to much like a marine engine on one of these
Only not enough like a marine engine[:D]
Aparently thats what drove them funniest looking boat I ever saw[swg]
regards John

[Ray Dunakin]

Thanks for the info! Seeing your work makes me want to try kitbashing a loco myself -- but that'll have to wait until I get caught up on all my other projects.

[Ray Dunakin]

Oh, one more quick question... What kind of glue would you recommend for laminating styrene to metal?

I'm planning to build a plate girder bridge, and was thinking of using styrene to produce the detailing.

[vsmith]

For plastic to metal??? Ohhh thats a tough one, CA wont last outdoors and i doubt epoxy would either. Even if you could the temperature diffential would likely warp or pop off the styrene in the hot sunlght. If you can I'd make it all metal and solder it together.

[Ray Dunakin]

Ok, thanks for the info. I was hoping I could use styrene instead of brass because it's so much easier to work with, but I guess that's out.