The Oh-No-0-6-0 Bug Mauler Mash and Bash

[vsmith]

What I wanted, from Accurcraft, only in narrow gauge:

So with an old Bug Mauler drivetrain I had modified previously to an 0-6-0 set up but had never done anything with, I gave it a whirl...

Boiler, 60mm PVC, cut and fitted to the Bug Mauler chassis, boy was this one hellova mess to cut

Tender test, I just had this one left over from my 2-4-2 that got mashed into a Heisler

A/C switcher pilot beam attached

Stack from a A/C switcher, cheapo Scientific domes, assorted fiddly bits attached

Rear view with fiddly bits attached, cab from a Scientific epoxied to the boiler

Side view, the whole boiler/cab assembly can be unscrewed from the drive with the same screw holes

Pilot with steps and tank added

I literally threw this one together quite literally as Warren would say, "right out of the garbage can" (parts trough), and I might say with a rather unashamed sloppyness and a further unashamed haste. I'm getting more impatient as I age.

Test ran it on the layout. Runs like crap!

Herky jerky due to poor power pick up. Crap drive!  Need to add pickups to all the tender wheels to fix that. Thats why I screwed the boiler/chassis togther so I can add a different drive chassis somewhere down the line. I'm not too sure about that tender, looks smallish, have a slopeback coming from weaselBay. We'll see how that looks when that arrives. Need to change the headlight with one that works.

 

I will post some more pics soon, maybe tonight.

 

[vsmith]

Painted:

Paint covers a wealth of sins...

[Anonymous]

Very nice Vic!

Toad

[spookytown rr]

is this the one you were teasing us about?

 

Looks good, now try to build your own big boy for under $200.

 

[Anonymous]

Looks good, now try to build your own big boy for under $200.

After seeing any Vic's stuff, I know he could.

Toad

[vsmith]

But where would I run it?

[S&G Rute of the Silver River]

just make it a 4 +  4-4 +  4-4 +  4 so two o-4-o garrets cuppled together with lead and trailing 4 wheel bogies.

[vsmith]

Tender arrived from eBay today, added a couple trucks and...I think we have a winner




Its an Aristo slopeback tender.  Looks far better than the Columbia tender, a lot closer to what this type of engine would actually have. 

One of the trucks has dual power pickups so all I should need to do is add a connector from the RC shop and a couple of details. Front coupler needs a little tweeking. Almost done!

[Anonymous]

Looks cool man!!! And here I was going to mold a cab and front of a track cleaner, but I can see my hands stuck together. No really it is great! Only thing about the wheels I never liked was the dumby one when not on the track.

Tell you the truth, have not touched any thing since dad past on.

[dwbeckett]

So how about a vidio of this fine looking engine running on the NEW layout??

Dave

[vsmith]

Sorry guys no videos for a while. I've been down with them flu for the last 2 days, looks like I'll be down for another couple at least, so much for my flu shot!

[Anonymous]

I been placing my stuff in boxes. Maybe when I get older a spark will trigger again. All I will be doing as far as G Gauge is producing critter parts for who ever.

Toad

[ttrigg]

Looks good, now try to build your own big boy for under $200.

After seeing any Vic's stuff, I know he could.

Toad

But where would I run it?

Well now, if you were to pay particular heed to what you were doing and it could make it through a 38 inch radius inside a tunnel with 5 inch clearance to the inside of the curve............ You could drive down to Oceanside. Just don't expect to try the run up to Chateau de Vic atop the falls.

[vsmith]

user="ToadFrog&WhiteLightn"

I been placing my stuff in boxes. Maybe when I get older a spark will trigger again. All I will be doing as far as G Gauge is producing critter parts for who ever.

Toad

Toad, I dont know how involved your dad was with you in your hobby, if he was very involved with you that can be rough hurdle to overcome, but even just the loss of any family member is traumatic, so give yourself enough time to grieve and reflect, trains are less important than family, with time the bug will either return or you'll find something else that you enjoy doing, thats the nature of hobbies.

[dwbeckett]

The Flu is way better then what i still have, I was in the hospital for 5 days, and I still am recovering, my 2hr outing to the LHS wore me out. So let's get busy with the Vidio's

Dave

[Mr_Ash]

Very nice bash also that slope tender looks nice!

[dwbeckett]

So how about a vidio of this fine looking engine running on the NEW layout??

Dave

And I ask one more time.

Dave

[vsmith]

Com'on Dave, I havent even had a chance to wire the pick ups from the tender to the engine yet, so there no way I'm going to video this herky-jerky till I do that...

I havent been at my bench all week for more than 5 minutes at a time, mostly to change a coupler or two, been a busier week than usual!

[dwbeckett]

OK I'm going on a road trip anyway I'll be looking on tuesday.

Dave

[vsmith]

Ran into a little roadblock, the points I was hoping to use to connect the power pickup wires from the tender, dont work. After a mess of testing looks like the only 2 places I can connect the wires to is either on the plunger pickup mounts, or directly on the motor poles, and I'll have to soldier them, cant see anywhere else to connect them, neither is an easy proposition due to location. I'll have to pull the motor out regardless. In the meantime, I cleaned up the wheels as best I can, and will see how well it runs as is. Try to get a vid out sometime soon for ya Dave.

[S&G Rute of the Silver River]

Would it be possible to tee off from the motor leads to say under the cab and make the connection there?

[dwbeckett]

Not a problem I will be very busy for the next two weeks driving all over Fresno ( 2 hour's away ) working for a change 11-12 hour day's I can wait that much longer for the vidio. I did do a quick mesure of the back yard in reno the main town looks to be 15x18 with run  around the grass and paver's of about 210-230foot to the other side of the Reno house . 

[vsmith]

OK Dave here you go...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSY2Xj5UWEw

Ya happy?  

[trainboy414]

very cool i think it looks better than the accucraft (because i like kitbashes better)

[S&G Rute of the Silver River]

Damm u. I was making an impression of "Thomas the thank engine" an half way threw cutting I began to realize that I was turning from blowing up this thing and making it a 2-6-0T&T. Ill post some pics as aoon as I find my camera. where did it go?

 

Any new progress?

[vsmith]

After all the discussion about the new USA and Piko docksiders valve gear, I added crosshead and stephenson valve mechanism, I think it looks the better for it.

[SNOWSHOE]

vic, you do great work.  Hope I can get that good some day.  I just saw the video of it on your indoor layout.  Very cool.  dont know how i missed that video.  I really like that layout. Have you been able to get anymore work done to it?

[ttrigg]

Looks good, now try to build your own big boy for under $200.

After seeing any Vic's stuff, I know he could.

Toad

I second that motion!  If anyone could do it, Vic would be my first choice.

[vsmith]

vic, you do great work.  Hope I can get that good some day.  I just saw the video of it on your indoor layout.  Very cool.  dont know how i missed that video.  I really like that layout. Have you been able to get anymore work done to it?

Just the crossheads and I finished the backhead, which was very basic, nothing worth posting, just enough that it doesnt look empty, I still have alot of plumbing detail I want to add to this one to give it more depth, again in a simplified form, its already at a very basic level of detail, very apparent when you see it up close.

Try it, I started with using cheap disposable battery locomotives and cars. Not much to risk losing when your entire train set cost $40

[vsmith]

Looks good, now try to build your own big boy for under $200.

After seeing any Vic's stuff, I know he could.

Toad

I second that motion!  If anyone could do it, Vic would be my first choice.

But where would I run it? I'm R1 restricted.

I've considered joining a club like the Del Oro or the Fairplex so I could build and run a larger engine, I already have two pet projects, well 3 if you consider the Dean Single as well, the other 2 are both Russian, one being the AA20, the largest rigid frame locomotive ever built at a 4-14-4 wheel arraingment;

AA20

The other is my favorite apochrophylicly legendary long lost "Big Joe" atomic locomotive, built in the 1950's for the Trans Siberian service, a massive articulated Garret 4-12-12-4 + 4-12-12-4 fueled by a dry graphite reactor, which was a disasterous choice as it got so hot it melted the permafrost under the artic circle test track and triggering a meltdown causing the whole engine to sink into the superheated mud, disappearing forever.

Please note the "Big Joe" exists today only in fiction and in legend. I would love to build a version of this maybe using a pair of Aristo Mallet's as the basis.

http://gold.mylargescale.com/vsmith/Big%20Joe%20Model%20.pdf

Plan of the "Big Joe" 

even if built as a 4-8-8-4 + 4-8-8-4 it would be a mighty impressive sight prowling the Fairplex