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oh she does want her own train to operate. she likes diesel tho......

So essentially throw away the bulk of the original loco for the 2-10-2 and build my own from brass/styrene. Shouldn't be too hard. As you say, it's essentially a cylinder with wheels. A lot of the details can be had from Minatures by Eric too... Come to think of it, there is trailing trucks...

I can't believe I missed that on the CP Selkirk.... hummm.... maybe I can steal the trailing truck from a DOA Northern that shows up on ebay? Not a big deal, but something that I can do when the opportunity arises while I do the rest of the kit bash first. The more I look at it, the easier the...

lookin good! the layout is really starting to take shape.

the epoxy isn't working out as planned... gave it three tries last night...ran outa epoxy and didn't get the shape I was hoping for. I got the brass cone smoothed out using a drill/file combo, and then went over it with some sandpaper. But now it's cutting off the excess thats driving me...

I've used a brite boy. But you may be right... the cleaner may have messed stuff up. I use the same things to clean the wheels of the locos... I soak a paper towel with the contact cleaner and run the loco atop it until the wheels shine like new. I then run them again on dry paper towel until...

I started work on the nose of the CNR mountain tonight... using brass as I couldn't find the proper styrene tubes (ie... the sizes were not all in stock). I used krazy glue to weld all the brass tubing together into a general cone shape, attatchted it to my drill and started going at the...

Wayne, great idea for the while walls! I'll do that tonight. Those are great pics too! Love the quality of work you've done, very inspiring. The 6060 is a loco that has a special place in my heart. I've rode her more than any other loco during my railfanning experiences since I was 3...

oh I'm definatley finishing this one before I move onto the others. in fact I already know how I'm going to do the side rails on the next one...aside from not trying to cut a straight line freehand! :) The part I'm talking about on the CNR is the large block below the smoke box that has the...

thanks! I'll be workin on the cone later tonight.

The guy's I usually deal with overheard us. It was funny because I pointed at the three FP7A/B sets sitting there on the shelf and told her that those were the ones I wanted. She replies with 'yup, I asked him if those were them, but he said they were not'. I pointed at the RDC collection they...

I started on the 6060 conversion tonight using my guinea pig... a Light Mountain Bachmann with a Vandy Tender. The Vandy Tender is much too long... but after taking it apart is gonna be a REAL PITA to shorten...so I'll leave it as is. But here's pics of my progress. First attempt at kitbashing...

kinda a repost from another thread... see http://www.zealot.com/forum/showthread.php?t=164314 Pretty much I got three projects: This: (Con-cor J3a Hudson) into this: (Canadian Pacific Royal Hudson) this: (Con-cor USRA 2-10-2) into this: (Canadian Pacific Selkirk) (Selkirk photo by me)...

I picked up some paint and some styrene tonight and started up on my guineapig lt. mountain loco. heres the pic of progress! keep in mind this is my first attempt at customizing anything... and I still need to work on the cab and touch up a lot of the paint. this was like 30...

Great tips! what do you mean by bar stock? I was going to do the cylinder thing for the CN loco, but using brass. But styreen would be a lot easier. Same for the skirts, brass was my original plan. The wheels will remain stock, I'd rather not mess with them. But I wanna paint them. Any...

Fantastic idea! I love the idea of that lumber elevation thing. I'll do that when I get home. the wife already brought it back. I went in and showed her everything they have instock that I could use. The sales guy she talked to yesterday obviously took advantage of her as EVERYTHING on my list...

I'm no rivent counter... but I would like them to have the same general idea. The big thing for me is the smoke box fronts, the side skirts, and if possible the cab. I heard that someone used to have a mold for canadian cabs... but I can't find them.

had some pretty nice wins on ebay this past week.... but modeling Canadian steam era is a bit of a PITA because of the distinctive designs that they have...and no one has recreated in n-scale (yet). pretty much I wanna turn this: into this: tips? I think I shave the nose off and do some...

problem is I have no grades to test it on, nor do I have any curves... at the moment anyways. only the main yard is near completion currently...limiting my ability to test locos overall. I got two hvy mountains and a J-class already in my roster... she wants to get me something different. I...

I posted on this before with how my wife supports and helps out. But after reading a few other comments about 'compromise' and what they had to give up.... I consider myself lucky! hobbies: Model roading (as long as I have the condo payment in on time every month she helps out and don't raise...