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What to do with a pooper of a New Blight boxcar? Why, build another Goose of course!

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Posted by ttrigg on Saturday, April 26, 2008 12:04 PM
 vsmith wrote:

 paultheloon wrote:
why not build a few hobo shacks or shanties?

They dont roll...Wink [;)]Shock [:O]Big Smile [:D]Tongue [:P]

Vic:

I agree with Paul.  New Blight makes for some good "Yard Art" especially when acquired during the after christmas clearance sale price of $5.00 per set.

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Posted by vsmith on Friday, April 25, 2008 10:13 AM

Pics
The new look for the Goose.


HLW motor spilced onto a HLW minicar frame and screwed to the New Blight pooper


HLW motor w/ $1.98 battery pack from radio shack

 

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Posted by vsmith on Thursday, April 24, 2008 4:27 PM

Update:

Well the USA speeder turned out to be a bust, seems ya cant really take the body off with out the whole enchillada falling to pieces, so after sitting forlorn on my shelf for the last few months a thought struck me, I have a drive motor/wheelset thats the same from the HLW wadlin' goose, could I hook it up to a simple battery pack an use that? so I tried some experiments ans found that indeed it does work! So off to Radio Shack for a selection of battery holders! I settled on a 4 AA holder that has an ON/OFF integral switch, carved up an HLW minicar for to mount the drive, screwed it to the underside of the boxcar and got the thingy put together, and... it runs! No track pick ups to install, no dirty track issues, none of that crap! And a little more experimenting showed the 4AA set up worked on the crapzilla drive I took off the Lionel 0-6-0, so a whole new vista of possibilities has opened before me!

Pics soon.

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Posted by vsmith on Sunday, July 22, 2007 12:15 PM

Mark, its been given basic paint job, just needs decals added and then light weathering and final the matte coat then I'll post pics.  I've had a pile of house projects in the way so I dont tend to get alot of things done during the busy months of summer.

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Posted by markn on Thursday, July 19, 2007 10:38 PM
Vic- Great job on the Geese! by the way, whatever happened with the double caboose-did I miss the finish photos or is it still in work?
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Posted by EMPIRE II LINE on Thursday, July 19, 2007 2:23 PM
 vsmith wrote:

What to do with a pooper of a New Blight boxcar?

So Vic,

Speaking of "Pooper", you gonna put one in it ???? OR......lotta stops.....

Look'in Good......

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Posted by paultheloon on Wednesday, July 18, 2007 3:46 PM
to vsmith; what i meant to say was to use the left-over ties to build the shacks and shanties with.
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Posted by vsmith on Friday, July 13, 2007 3:44 PM

 paultheloon wrote:
why not build a few hobo shacks or shanties?

They dont roll...Wink [;)]Shock [:O]Big Smile [:D]Tongue [:P]

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Posted by paultheloon on Friday, July 13, 2007 3:23 PM
why not build a few hobo shacks or shanties?
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Posted by FJ and G on Friday, July 13, 2007 12:16 PM
Great work. You've just given me an idea of what to do with some 20.3 scale flatcars for a larger scale car. Now, if only I could recycle my plastic ties somehow
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Posted by vsmith on Thursday, July 12, 2007 11:31 PM

Painted

Built a second one just for fun.

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What to do with a pooper of a New Blight boxcar? Why, build another Goose of course!
Posted by vsmith on Sunday, June 24, 2007 1:24 AM

What to do with a pooper of a New Blight boxcar?

Why, build another Goose of course!


Needs two of those new USA speeder chassis' when they get released later this summer, more to come as it progresses. Big Smile [:D]

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