Start Foaming..Lets See the STEAM!!!

[UP4-8-8-4]

     This is my NYC Empire State Express Hudson resin kit by Fine N Scale Products.

Since this Hudson ran Scullin Disc drivers, I decided not to use one of my Rail Baron Dryfuss 20th Century Limited Hudsons but went with a standard Rail Baron Hudson with the Boxpok drivers and converted them to Scullin Disc drivers.
I pulled the driver sets and sanded them, then filled the centers with auto body polyester finishing putty. Then sanded smooth, followed by measuring and drilling all the Scullin Disc holes. Primed and painted. Also took that time to airbrush the side rods.


Here she is finished and painted.


Next project was to paint and decal a set of stainless corrugated pass cars for it.



Ernie

[Philip H]

Ernie,
Very well done sir !

[hunter_alexander]

PRB Niagara, Key Import Mohawk, Key H10A, Bman Connie, Kato Mikado.  Still need to get pics of my Hudson project.

[SkipGear]

Some projects waitng for the weather to turn and force me back downstairs....

[Lemosteam]

What are the basis(s) for these locos, and where do you get some of the cast white-metal parts your using?
I especially like your B8a and H10sa. You should consider making molds of each loco's body (and tender if the tender is a modification/scratchbuilt) and casting them with Micro-Marks mold kit and casting them in their white resin stuff.
Either way, if you'd be willing, i'd love to have an H10sa made up (perhaps even a B8a seeing that its origins are that of the life-like 0-6-0).

-Cody F.

VonRyan, thanks for the kind words. 

All of these are made from vintage Minitrix chassis and B6/K4/Decapod shells.  There is a complete how to in the NTRAK Steam Addendum www.ntrak.org on the B8a, which is made from a minitrix 0-6-0 chassis and shell.  The H10sa is a shortened Decapod chassis and a shortened K4 shell minus the short cab, replaced with a B6 cab.  Its tender is a standard K4 tender (very few examples of H10 with this tender class).  There are two more how to YouTube vids on my channel for same so you could make one too from an eBay special.  Unfortunately, I don't have enough time or interest to begin casting resin.  I'll leave that to Superturbine!  The cast details are from Republic Locomotive Works sold separately from the L1s kit, but there are no pics so it's hard to know which parts to buy.

[VonRyan]

VonRyan, thanks for the kind words. 

All of these are made from vintage Minitrix chassis and B6/K4/Decapod shells.  There is a complete how to in the NTRAK Steam Addendum www.ntrak.org on the B8a, which is made from a minitrix 0-6-0 chassis and shell.  The H10sa is a shortened Decapod chassis and a shortened K4 shell minus the short cab, replaced with a B6 cab.  Its tender is a standard K4 tender (very few examples of H10 with this tender class).  There are two more how to YouTube vids on my channel for same so you could make one too from an eBay special.  Unfortunately, I don't have enough time or interest to begin casting resin.  I'll leave that to Superturbine!  The cast details are from Republic Locomotive Works sold separately from the L1s kit, but there are no pics so it's hard to know which parts to buy.

I'll have to start my reading then. I'll also have to keep my eye out for some ebay grabs.
Thanks for the info, and especially the inspirational photos.

On a more general side note... (Chris are you listening?)
Has anyone considered (let alone made) an Eire Triplex in N...

-Cody F.

[superturbine]

Who would want and Erie Triplex when one could have a Santa Fe Triplex!!!   
existed in real life, but this is exquisite).  The loco was custom-built for Jim by Hans Starmans of the Netherlands http://www.n-stars.com/

[VonRyan]

Who would want and Erie Triplex when one could have a Santa Fe Triplex!!!   
existed in real life, but this is exquisite).  The loco was custom-built for Jim by Hans Starmans of the Netherlands http://www.n-stars.com/

Ok, so that sorta takes care of that (the Eire ones we're better  ).

Now, onto the next challenge.

Has anyone planned, started, completed, or even thought of doing the Russian AA20, the infamous 4-14-4 that spread rails, killed points and frogs, and ran only once but took 40+ years for them to get around to cutting it up.

I heard once that there were HO scale plans of the loco published in an issue of Model Railroader, but i forget which issue and i never bookmarked the site...

-Cody F.

[mike in bc]

Went to wikpedia and looked up that russian AA20  4-14-4 Yikes.
mike

[superturbine]

Ok Ernie here is one of our engines, time to start firing the guns......  lets see your complete steam collection!!
Here is the kato GS4 to FEF-3 greyhound 844's sister engine.
Paint job by UP4-8-8-4 Ernie



And a rarely seen Niagara caught at speed

Kato GS4 with Naigara casting.
Adam Drasko's 4-12-2 is what the Russan studied and thought they could beat..... Not a chance

[UP4-8-8-4]

     Alright, more GREAT steamer pics guys !
And another NYC Empire State Express Hudson makes an appearence, and I see you went with the other color side rods also used ------------------- KOOL !
OK Jason, lets fire those steamer guns -------------------- 
Heres where I get my name from -------------- "Big Boy"

Nine Rivarossi and two Athearn ones head up my large steamer list.
How about a Oriental Brass Pennsy 6-4-4-6 S1:

Somewhere I have pics of my Daiyoung NJ Brass Pennsy 4-4-4-4 T1, just need to locate it ?
Heres a few pics of one of my Key Brass C&O H8 2-6-6-6 Alleghaney's, need to locate pics of the other one as well.



Heres a Key Brass SP GS-3 Daylight.




Ernie

[DKS]

Went to wikpedia and looked up that russian AA20  4-14-4 Yikes.
mike

At that time, the Russians had a reputation for making some of the most spectacularly bizarre locomotives the world has ever seen. Have a gander:

http://www.aqpl43.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/russ/russrefr.htm

[UP4-8-8-4]

At that time, the Russians had a reputation for making some of the most spectacularly bizarre locomotives the world has ever seen. Have a gander:

http://www.aqpl43.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/russ/russrefr.htm

    Now thats a steamer !
Would be a neat modeling project.
Great link, very interesting reading as well as pics of other steamers, thanks for posting.



Ernie

[superturbine]

This just arrived today, 25 August 2012. 
I am still not certain how to make the bundle of wires less obvious.
This is the same situation with another B'mann heavy weight 4-8-2 and the 2-10-2, i.e. wires from tender to locomotive are not nicely bundled and made less obvious. 

Glad to have another steam junky!

Paint them black and they will blend right in!

[hegstad1]