It is going to still look silly.
The cylinders will stick out too far, and all the details will be wrong.
If you want to do an RDGCasey (Anthracite Modeler) style project, it would make a good starting point.
Otherwise, there was an HO scale brass hybrid model of a 2-4-4-2 inported by Oriental in their Powerhouse series. I would look for one of those if I had to have a 2-4-4-2.
Otherwise, the Mantua 2-6-6-2 is also an option.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Hi there. The cab, bell and domes are definitely oversized - I guess it would depend what is your tolerance levels about these things and the effort you are willing to put in to do the conversion. Have you thought about getting a Mantua 2-6-6-2?
Simon
I've always been interested in "small" articulated locomotives and see that Bachmann has a 2-4-4-2 in On30. As I understand it, On30 runs on standard HO gauge track. Obviously, the cab & likely the tender on an On30 loco would be way too big for HO but I'm wondering if one could replace those on that 2-4-4-2 and hae a reasonable looking small articulated?
Aside... with my luck, if I went that route, Bachmann would come out with an HO version using the On30 mechanism. When I bought my first brass loco, a USRA 2-6-6-2, Bachmann came out with a high end plastic one about a year later. Then they turned around and did the same thing when I bought a brass EM-1!
Any thoughts on downsizing an On30 loco to HO?
dlm