the Monster is Here!!!! 3-19-06 Painting finished

[vsmith]

The Monster is coming!!!!



Be afraid...very afraid!!!![:0][:-,]

[;)]

[Anonymous]

ah! wut is it! o my god! a giant blur! head for the hills!!![:O][:O][:O][:O]
no just kidding
looks like a cool kitbash i cant tell or some kinda shay loco from looking at the pic in the background

[kimbrit]

Hmmmmm, watching with interest!!

[Ray Dunakin]

Some sort of bullet-nosed, geared loco??

[Puckdropper]

It's obviously a distortion caused by displacement of particles relative to waves of light. This distortion is the monster, but don't worry, he only likes indoor model railroad track. After eating all the rail he moves on to the next layout.

[kimbrit]

It must be gua'uld and it's come through the Stargate - watch out for the wormie things!

[Tom The Brat]

The Creature from the Workbench?

[vsmith]

Well someone elsewhere thinks they've figured it out, Hehehe
...lets just say its 24"long and is R1 capable.

PS its a handfull to move around on the bench. I'm making real good progress on it hopefully Sunday I can spill the beans on it....

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith



Be afraid...very afraid!!!![:0][:-,]

[;)]

You should have entitled it...


"the MONSTER cometh!"

[Capt Bob Johnson]

A monster battery car having enough power to run a quadruple headed MU unit train of sludge hauling cars (with a fan to blow the odors from the cargo load away) for a day and a half!

[Anonymous]

Vic

You obviously had too much too drink when you when you took the photo that is why your vision was blurred.


Rgds Ian

[Puckdropper]

QUOTE:
It must be gua'uld and it's come through the Stargate - watch out for the wormie things!

So that's why Vic doesn't have an outdoor layout! There's too little room for it with the Stargate! How are you hiding that thing Vic, and can I see it?

[vsmith]

QUOTE: Originally posted by iandor

Vic

You obviously had too much too drink when you when you took the photo that is why your vision was blurred.


Rgds Ian

Too much?? Hell! [:0] the more I look at this thing I realize I aint had enough! [;)][:p][:D]

Be afraid...its a good day so I'm taking some pics outdoors and will spill the beans later today. Vic[8D]

[Chompers]

SPILL 'UM!!!

I've got home work to do so i 'ant got all day!

Looks like a gondola car with a picknick table on it!

With a Barby Q on the Back

[Anonymous]

its sunday night wheres the monster?

[Capt Bob Johnson]

2112 here in the East, 1812 there in Ahnold country; high time to make the famed California flakiness shine through. Do it before dinner cause if you get too much wine with the dinner you will be totally impotent when it comes to pressing the proper keys to get er done!

I can't make Yogi Bear's "Pic a nic" table or a Barbe out of that blurry double exposure!

The car's not big enough to be carrying a bunch of Depends!

Oh, look, see the computer monitor? Vic can see the computer monitor! Did Vic make a flatcar into a mouse pad? Vic wouldn't waste a good car for that would he?

The World awaits the unveiling of the naked truth!

[RhB_HJ]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Capt Bob Johnson

2112 here in the East, 1812 there in Ahnold country; high time to make the famed California flakiness shine through. Do it before dinner cause if you get too much wine with the dinner you will be totally impotent when it comes to pressing the proper keys to get er done!

I can't make Yogi Bear's "Pic a nic" table or a Barbe out of that blurry double exposure!

The car's not big enough to be carrying a bunch of Depends!

Oh, look, see the computer monitor? Vic can see the computer monitor! Did Vic make a flatcar into a mouse pad? Vic wouldn't waste a good car for that would he?

The World awaits the unveiling of the naked truth!

Well if it's stargate related, chances are flex time is the operative work.

The only clearly distinctive feature is "Red"; like a "red box". [;)][}:)][;)]

It could be an articulated leaf blower that uses "high-density, super heated rarified air" distilled from "red box marketing input". The part on the right is "the hopper" for the "input".

[vsmith]

The Monster is here!

side view

Hi all, OK the beans are spilt, Ralph and Fletch at MLS both guessed it.....Its a 1912 New Zealand A.G.Price 16 wheeler. Kinda a Class A Climax on steroids! Heres the prototype!

This is an amazing looking engine I have always wanted and after the Forney deal fell thru I decided to put the lessons learned from the Class A project and the CPH project to work and go for it by scrapping a couple little engines and a pair of HLW gondolas. I call it the "Monster" because at 24" long its the biggest thing on my layout and its a real beast to carry to the layout.

Like my Climax, its more caricature than scale model but thats what I like. The idea behind the model is that the Climax Co. got the license to build the New Zealand AG Price varient in America utilizing American Climax constuction principles, a Super Class A was the result.


Some more oversize prototype pics





The Plan

The Model as of today

test run around the layout

overhead


articulation on an R1 curve

The building log:

mock up subframe-2 AC centercab bricks scrapped from 2 other lokies

mock up chassis/frame test-2 HLW Gon's spliced together

prepping the frame

drive bricks ready

Wired

chassis/frame complete

scratch built boiler-Thanks Fletch!

articulated couplers for R1 operation

overall showing rear bunker underway

More to come as I get it finished up, need to fini***he marine motor and the undercarraige gearing.
Hope you like it![:)]

PS its 10:06 pm Sunday ..here so I DID keep my promise[;)]

[Ray Dunakin]

Sweet! Nice work so far; looking forward to seeing the finished beast.

[Anonymous]

nice! really cool

[kimbrit]

Nice one Vic, where's the wormy things? Like the shot on the curve showing the bogies, er I mean trucks, in operation.
Cheers,
Kim

[Anonymous]

Wow, Vic! What an awesome looking model! Building such beautiful beast is quite an undertaking as well. I especially liked the ‘construction log’. Thanks much for sharing the pictures and I’m really looking fwd to more!

[TonyWalsham]

I'm envious.
Nice work Vic.

[scooby1]

WOW that thing is sweet

[Tom The Brat]

What a cool contraption!

Amazing what people have used for trains[:D]

[Anonymous]

vic
where is the jet engine???? when do they go into full production ,to sell. [tup][:)]
ben

[Capt Bob Johnson]

Now Vic, before you get HJ and TOC all frothing at the mouth; What scale is it in? L-gummi-b, 1:20.5, 1:32, 1:29, or it's own?

Far better than I could do, I hereby include a tip o the hat!

[vsmith]

Bob I built it mostly by eye but nominally used a 1/22.5 scale ruler for overall dimensions, heights etc. 1/22.5 seamed best for my layout, matches existing rolling stock, clearances, etc etc. Besides, the original operated on 3'-6" gauge rail, so 1/22.5 is technicaly correct. even at 1/22.5 its 24" long and very tall, it will be the biggest engine on my layout.

[ttrigg]

Vic;

From the pictorial essay, looks like you had some serious fun. Well done.

[RhB_HJ]

Vic,

That looks more proto on that R1 curve than a lot of LGB stuff we get to look at! And if it's 1:22.5 it probably is more consistently 1:22.5 than a lot of that L-Gummi-B stuff we get to look at.

Of course this is just a sneaky suspicion I have. [;)][:D][;)][;)]