Here are a few shots of a loco I have been working on. It's an old Bachmann 0-4-0T. I have detailed the tank a bit with styrene pieces for steps and tank patches. The patches are thin .015" sheet that are bonded into place. When dry I flood an edge with solvent and "chew up" the soft edge with a dull X-Acto knife blade. This mashes it down and creates a weld line. complete this effect all around the patch. A generator platform was fashioned from styrene and a new stack base was added. It comes through the tank as per the prototype
The cab is from the 2-6-6-2T. It is a little large but since this is a rebuild, I decided that the larger cab would be fine. I had to add a piece with a new radius for the boiler. Other pieces were added to the sides at the bottom. A new floor was made using the old 2-6-6-2T one along with new pieces of styrene. It sits over the original 0-4-0T floor. The loco will be a coal burner, hence the whole in the center of the rear cab wall at the floor.
That is all I have done at the moment. As usual, I stop and start projects all the time. Well, I stopped this one to start and finish a Bachmann old style 2-6-0 and turned it into an "Argent-type" logger. As soon as I shoot photos I will post them here. I left the air pump in place on it even though Argent didn't use them. It was a nice detail. The loco features a totally new tender frame of wood, a new cab from the 4-6-0 reshaped into a steel one. A new Rushton stack from my own patterns, pilot beam, Connie steam dome and an extended smoke box. The tender is full of wood from my scrap box mimicking cut-offs from the mill. It is fairly well weathered. I said I finished it earlier, however, as usual, there are more details to attach. It looks quite close though.
More later...
The cab is from the 2-6-6-2T. It is a little large but since this is a rebuild, I decided that the larger cab would be fine. I had to add a piece with a new radius for the boiler. Other pieces were added to the sides at the bottom. A new floor was made using the old 2-6-6-2T one along with new pieces of styrene. It sits over the original 0-4-0T floor. The loco will be a coal burner, hence the whole in the center of the rear cab wall at the floor.
That is all I have done at the moment. As usual, I stop and start projects all the time. Well, I stopped this one to start and finish a Bachmann old style 2-6-0 and turned it into an "Argent-type" logger. As soon as I shoot photos I will post them here. I left the air pump in place on it even though Argent didn't use them. It was a nice detail. The loco features a totally new tender frame of wood, a new cab from the 4-6-0 reshaped into a steel one. A new Rushton stack from my own patterns, pilot beam, Connie steam dome and an extended smoke box. The tender is full of wood from my scrap box mimicking cut-offs from the mill. It is fairly well weathered. I said I finished it earlier, however, as usual, there are more details to attach. It looks quite close though.
More later...
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