Hi all,
When I joined Railwire it was because a few of you had been talking about my up and coming project, the Baldwin DT6-6-2000, and asked me to let you know when it was done, well it is almost there. Yes it's the same as up1950s kitbash but I didn't want to trample on his thread.
Some of you may ask what is it? Well its one of these....
(The two images above are from
http://www.snowcrest.net/photobob/)
It’s a twin engined transfer locomotive designed to move strings of freight cars form one local yard to another. And here is mine, well the 3D model anyway.
I have designed it to fit over an Atlas C-628 chassis; I think the C-630 will also work, Spookshow's N scale guide says they are the same so it must be true .
It has also be designed so that no physical modifications to the chassis are required, which is nice. The only thing you need to do is to rotate the trucks. The DT6-6-2000 has asymmetric trucks, as does the C-628 but the other way around. This is a simple matter of loosening the two chassis screws so the trucks fall out and putting them back in the other way around.
I have also drawn replacement trucks side frames that should, fingers crossed, slip onto the chassis trucks using the same fixing lugs.
A fellow modeler has also made cast resin side frames for the DT6-6-2000 so you can use those also. I will post a link later.
As with my DD35 I have included handrails but they are a bit on the large side due to the printing limitations with round wire, actually Shapeways can print smaller round wire they just don’t because it is too easily damaged in shipping and that cost them. The handrails have been designed with fixing lugs and matching holes in the shell which makes them easy to install, but should you wish to use brass wire or similar the mounting holes simply need to be drilled through and they can be used as guides.
And, a first for me, I have included an engineer for the cab. (If you don’t want him you can always cut him out.) He is on a separate cab section so he can be painted before installing. He looks fantastic through the windows!
Any way the test print has been ordered and this morning I received confirmation that it has gone to print (First time, I’m definitely getting good at this). I am expecting delivery around the 17th of May.
There is more about this project on my bog if you are interested and I will share the pictures with you when it turns up.
Again as with my DD35 there will be dummy version available and a replacement chassis and trucks for the C-628 so the shell won’t go to waste.
-James
