That is an exellent job!
With all of the Challengers available ready-to-run, I think you did the hobby proud by building a challenging kit. The results stand shoulder-to-shoulder with any high-end RTR or brass Challenger.
Good work!
Modeling the Rio Grande Southern First District circa 1938-1946 in HOn3.
Very nice looking work indeed. Congratulations.
Spike, why did you have trouble with quartering ? All the Bowsers I have seen had the drivers and axles already assembled and properly quartered. (stupid button) I would contact Bowser and I am almost sure they could help you out.
an amazing accomplishment . if i wore a hat it would be off to you !
Very Nice work.
I have a Boser Challange sitting in my basement in it box.
I started it many, Many years ago. I could not get the Quartering of the drivers correct. That is as far as I got.
Happy to hear of your success.
Thanks for sharing your challenger with the forum. It looks great. Congratulations! Take a bow!
My Bowsers are a 4-8-4 (lettered NP), a 4-8-2 (lettered ATSF), and a 4-4-4-4 (PRR T1). The T1 with its two motors and 5 lbs of weight will pull anything I put behind it.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
That's about 1/2 pounds of tractive effort . Now to find the drawbar push/pull stick a scale in front of it and crank up the throttle! I suggest removing the couplers first. Then push around a properly weighted car and do some math to find out how many cars it can pull.
And it looks GREAT!
It runs very well. Mostly smooth except for a slight wobble (big wobble around an 18" radius), and fairly quiet...for a big metal steam engine, anyway. I bet it could easily pull over 100 cars, since it weighs in at over 2 lbs. The boiler's hollow, so another pound of lead could be easily added.
Yup, it's a Monogram tender. Once you replace the molded on railings like I did, they look very nice.
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Nice work, Darth! How does she run? I'm sure it could tow a trailer home, with all of that diecast weight.
So the tender is from one of those Monogram kits? Looks good.
Nelson
Ex-Southern 385 Being Hoisted
As some of you may know, I've been working on building a Bowser 4-6-6-4 Challenger for nearly two years now. Today, I finally finished it!
The accomplishment today that finished it was adding all the decals, which took about two hours. I think they turned out very nice.
The other things I've done since the last time I took pictures are:I made some simple shock absorber details which are visible above the drive wheels,I added the left marker light on the front of the engine, which took a while to do because I lost the original,and I added a real coal load to the tender to help it look more realistic.
Building this Challenger has been a lot of fun for me, and now that it's done, it's something I can really be proud of. I don't know if this is what UP 3948 actually looked like, but I'm happy with how it looks, and that's good enough for me.