Hey, n scale steamers! I'd like to see all your new n scale steam projects! I'll kick it off with my new SP T-31 4-6-0 #2353. Now let's see yours!
NP Kitbashes NP Q5 NP W1 NP Y2 I guess I need to experiement with the camera macro settings and adjust the lights to a less "yellow" tint.... Cheers Dirk
here is my latest: no real prototype, just trying to make the bmann 2-6-2 turd into something closer to reality and some blasts from the past: Burro 2-8-2T post op, pre paint [IMG]http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/500/DSC_0066.JPG stable of climaxes and I got another HUGE project on the burner.....
Nice work everybody!! Keep 'em comin'. BTW, Caddy58, what were the base models for the first 2 engines? (I've worked on the Bachmann 2-8-0 all my n-scaling life, making SP and San Diego & Arizona Eastern 2-8-0's and 4-6-0's, so I think I know what engine 3 is!)
Yeah, those are fun locomotives to slice and dice. I have bashed a number of them. This one is probably the most radical departure from the 2-8-0.
These are all really great looking engines! I haven`t gotten to the point of bashing myself in N-scale, but I may get there someday. If I was really insane, however, one locomotive I`d like to see in this scale is a Heisler geared engine. I know it`s been done by someone at least once. I also wish that the Micro-Ace mallet engine would come out again, as well, because it would be extremely useful to kit-bashers.
A real simple kitbash. Bachmann Lt. Mountain into a Soo Line version. Simply move the headlight up higher on the smoke box, make angled numberboards, and get the correct tender trucks. This is hardly near completion, as there's a few detail parts I'd still like to add, the front coupler, and a replacement bell.
The first one is a Rivarossi Pacific with a cast boiler based on a GHQ NP W3 Mikado conversion kit. Unfortunately GHQ is not selling the boiler separately. Details are scratchbuild or GHQ, the tender is Bachman. The second is a Model Power Mikado, all cast-on details removed and replaced with GHQ parts. Tender is GHQ shell on a Bachman frame. Cheers Dirk
Republic Locomotive Works used to sell GHQ parts, I got my first L1s kit from them as "kit assembled from parts", before GHQ did the rerun. Their website is here: https://www.republiclocomotiveworks.com/ P.S.: they still have parts listed on their website: green buttons on right side "Parts N Locomotive"
What frame did you use for the 4014? I've been thinking about a T-1 for my SP lines, also is the feedwater heater scratch built?
Christoph, true, RLW sells the GHQ parts, but the last time I checked the boiler is not available separately. You would need to buy the full kit to get the boiler casting... Cheers Dirk
SPsteam, Both T-1's started life as Life Like Berkshires. For these Coffin "hoods", I scrounged around my "junque" box finding an old gas/oil tank with the right diameter to match the boiler's. I cut out a section a little wider than 2.5 ft., cut in half and sanded it to about 2.5 ft. While not perfect, from two feet away it passes muster! My fall back options were to see if I could locate plastic or brass tubing of the correct diameter or, as I did years ago, build one up from laminating thin styrene around a dowel. There are no problems, only solutions. I am presently doing write-ups on the project for N-Trak and the B&MRHS and would be happy to send you high-lights if you are interested in doing this project.
Here's an AC-10 made from an old Rowa Y6B. OK, so the wheels aren't correct, but from a mile away with your eyes shut........................................
Actually the wheels work out very close to those on the AC-6s. Some of them received more modern cabs like the one I modeled here. The tender is an old Bachmann "oil tender".