A little Boxcab bash for the Harbor Layout

[vsmith]

Downandout Abbey is on, so now I have free time to post these.

Painted:

This was a quick really fun bash, I hope it lets folks know that kitbashing isn't that hard to do, and once you done a couple its becomes a great fun addition to the scale.

I have to admit this has been a fun challenge and its shaken off some of the funk I have been in recently. Seamed to me for the longest time that kitbashing is a dying art form in large scale.

This will probably be one of the last I do for a while till I get the Harbor layout's track changes back in order. Still have a couple other things planned, but without a working track plan its kinda futile to keep building more stuff, besides I need something to do in the heat of this summer.

Not quite finish yet, still need to add some grab bars, glass, numbers and weathering

[vsmith]

I had this idea in my head and had done a couple line sketches. I have been battling a cold/flu/bug since last weekend, it blew up bad Friday so I thought no time like the present to try it. So I was able to spend some quality time at the bench, Here's where my mind goes under the influence of some very good cold medication, the usual results end up being something zany...like this:



It started as the wood deck of my old Mack railtruck that became the LBH railbus combined with Stan Cederleaf's AC brick he sold me at last years SWGRS:

The base drive: Basswood, 7/8" slate car journals, and some Bug Hauler end steps





The body is a Bug Hauler cab, with styrene body parts added front and rear to cover the openings, other Bug Hauler stuff rooftop, whatever I could find:











Lots of pics I know but this thing is different from almost every angle, Interior pics:





Some old LGB bits I had on the inside with styrene bashed controls:

This will live on the Harbor layout, hence the knuckle couplers, besides I think the Bmann cab makes it too wide for the Pizza.

Painting currently underway, maybe post some pics later during Dowager Abby.