RGS Flanger Car

[Mr_Ash]

Thanks!

Im going to have to get a few new pictures of the flanger in a consist with its now painted trucks once i finish the cab work on my RGS Bmann Annie 

Also been thinking about redoing the ends so the stick out more on the sides then I could add grab irons and what not without having to worry about the dang truck mounted couplers hitting them in the curves would also make it look a lil better I was looking at pictures from the sides mostly and made the ends pretty much flush with the sides DOH!

[Old 66]

Great Great that kind of stuff i only dream of doing   keep up the great work Mr. Ash

 

 

                                           

                                                      Cherrs  

[ttrigg]

 

Tadpole,

Slow down dude!  I know three months a a rather fast response time for you.  Did you run out of breath with that rapid response? 

 

[Anonymous]

dwbeckett

ttrigg

Brian:

That is an awesome job.

ToadFrog WhiteLightn wrote:

Found this MOW in Maintenance of Way Cyclopedia - 1921 and thought of you. Enjoy scratch building and kitbashing! Ole Toad

 

OK Toad, I give up. Just what did you find???? A link would be nice.

Well we are waiting, Toad did you give up on us?

Dave ( Pop's )

It was not in the MOW 1920's found it else where....

Enjoy,

Toad

[dwbeckett]

ttrigg

Brian:

That is an awesome job.

ToadFrog WhiteLightn wrote:

Found this MOW in Maintenance of Way Cyclopedia - 1921 and thought of you. Enjoy scratch building and kitbashing! Ole Toad

 

OK Toad, I give up. Just what did you find???? A link would be nice.

Well we are waiting, Toad did you give up on us?

Dave ( Pop's )

[ttrigg]

Brian:

That is an awesome job.

Found this MOW in Maintenance of Way Cyclopedia - 1921 and thought of you.

Enjoy scratch building and kitbashing!

Ole Toad

OK Toad, I give up. Just what did you find???? A link would be nice.

[vsmith]

That came out really well, Flangers are one of those necessary but often little made products in model railroading, one thing I have found working in large scale, when you cant get something, or that something in mega-$$, its often better to bite the bullet and just build it yourself, and once done you realize it wasn't as difficult as you thought it would be, nice job.

[Anonymous]

Found this MOW in Maintenance of Way Cyclopedia - 1921 and thought of you.

Enjoy scratch building and kitbashing!

Ole Toad

[hoofe116]

Mr Ash,

I'm enjoying the pixes very much--please keep posting as you progress on this project.

Les W.

[Takasaki Matt]

Very nice work Mr. Ash.

 I had no idea what 'Flanger' meant and now it is clear.  Keep those photos coming!

 

[Mr_Ash]

Wow 6 months!

 Finally got some work done to it this last week, I had painted it grey but changed my mind also was lazy on the lettering. I used stick on letters & numbers while it was grey then painted it brown and pealed them

 The trucks pictured dont go with the flanger there just a spare set. The flangers trucks are currently on a boxcar they are LGB freight trucks with Aristo wheels. Also like to note that it uses truck mounted couplers and can do R1 turns lol!

the control lever is an ozark switch stand.

I have an idea to use these brush type strips that are mounted on building doors for better insulation the bristles are like 1/2 inch long, anyway idea is get two 1" lengths and mount them to the black of the plow blades to brush the rails & flange way...  right now the blades are the same height off the track as the plow blade on my Bachmann K27.

[S&G Rute of the Silver River]

I got a rotery w/ flanger blade underneath, want some pics?

[Mr_Ash]

well there are kits and brass versions in smaller scales so there have to be plans out there somewhere, Im just looking at all the pic's I can find on the net of real ones and making somthing that looks like one. My blade isnt curved im stumped on that too and only went with this because IMO it looks okay but next go round I plan on using brass for the blade im hoping to make my next flanger car functional

[Southwest Chief]

That's super!

You've got me motivated to try building one too.  Always wanted a D&RGW flanger in 1:22.5.  Although I'm not exactly sure how to build the curved blade.  Anyone know where to find plans, or any scale drawings of D&RGW flangers.  I'd like to make either OF, or OH.

[Anonymous]

Lookn Great! Mr. Ash Keep up the pixs.

And if you want I have a list of MOW I need done (think Vic passed on me this time ) to long of a list

[Mr_Ash]

Yeah im having fun! I thought the winter would be a drag because I didnt manage to get any track laid outside before it got to cold and I had to take up my 8' x 10' oval in the living room err should I say reduce it to a 4' circle around the tree lol anyway lately Ive been kinda bummed because all I can really do is look at my trains and fiddle with them wich I guess isnt really a bad thing because the more I fiddle with them the better they look to me

This flanger car though...

I was telling one of my friends yesterday that I want to build another one lol and I do! Im not even done with the first one and I have lots of idea's on how to make a better one! Like how I have the plow blade setup, its 2 plastic card's  with a strip of brass front and back for support and its all glued to a wood mount wich is glued to the car frame....

If I did the same thing but didnt glue the blades (plastic cards) in just the brass supports I could have interchangable blades Insted of making the lever ontop work and actually lower the plow you would just swap out the blades for a set that are 1/2 inch longer with the notches cut in for the rails.

Was also thinking about mounting brushes behind the blade on each side so then the car could be used to sweep the track

[smcgill]

Keep the great pics coming!

You must be having fun now!

 

[Mr_Ash]

Thanks Brian  

Actually I didnt mess up the railings, I put 3 posts in and the D&RG flangers only have 2 and thats what I have been mostly looking at... IDK why I wasnt looking at RGS flanger 01 lol it has 3 posts but no shroud! doh

Oh well.. I'd say it kinda looks like a cross between RGS Flanger 01 and D&RGW Flanger OJ

[altterrain]

Looks great so far!

 -Brian 

[Mr_Ash]

Well I did this today, I did the railings before looking at any of the pictures of real ones today so i kinda screwed that up... oh well im just building one and bits from all of the pictures ive seen of them to make somthing that I think looks like a flanger car that I like and to tell the truth im fricken giddy right now i cant stop fiddling around with this thing lol I cant wait to show someone what I've built sorta

I think Ive done about as much as I can the rest is going to all be detail parts n junk, for the plow I used 2 blank ID cards (like a blank credit card with no numbers) and a strip of brass on the front and back. I Hot glued it to the plastic frame and also put 2 brass poles supporting it from the back that i heated up so they would make a dent in the plastic before gluing them inplace . It can even make it around R1 curves

This isnt a real Flanger Car but it plays one on TV lol the plow will be just above the rail head so it wont be living up to its name without some kind of adition to the plow.. oh well it still looks the part and im happy

Anyway enjoy more cellphone pic's!

[S&G Rute of the Silver River]

Looks good, you could probably use an old diesal plow off evilbay and it would work nicely.

 

 

hate to be the shop crew if they ever need to do some truck work.

[Mr_Ash]

So yeah this is my first attempt at building anything and I reeeaaaally want a Flanger car so here goes!

The plastic base/botom is off a Bachmann big hauler gondola car I had swapped trucks one of my engines tenders and also stolen a few of the grab irons for other stuff. So anyway the base is from that with 5 inches cut out from the middle (you can see the seem in the last two pic's) then built the top flatbed part out of wood i had bought from hobby lobby to build a passenger platform.

Sorry for the crappy pic quality used my cellphone im at work, this place is dead today everyone is off so I brought all the stuff with me and some tools and spent 15-20 minutes here and there working on it. Still need to do some work to it, add some detail junk and make the plow!