Engineer Bill Retires

[hminky]

The old 1/43 scale Engineer Bill seen in my O scale web articles has retired.I have painted a new OO scale Engineer Bill for the forthcoming OO articles. He is a 1/72 Preiser figure of a 1920's pilot that was shortened a tad to 1/76 scale and backdated. Here the new Bill is pointing out the glories of an "HO" IHC 4-4-0 on the former On30 Pacific Coast Air Line Railway.

Model the 1870's in OO/HO at:

http://www.pacificcoastairlinerr.com/1879/why/

Have a nice day
Harold

 

[Matthyro]

Nice work Harold. Bill has every reason to be proud.

 

[ezdays]

Fantastic shot Harold. Ol' Bill really has worked hard keeping things in ship-shape order, and deserves to kick back...:thumb::thumb:

 

[Sir_Prize]

So you got a new Bill...
trade for the bill I got today in the mail


Nice work... certain the pics of your work never do it justice.

 

[Zman]

How exactly did you shorten the fellow? Did you have to cut his ankles off and re-attach the feet? Was there a lot of blood?

 

[hminky]

I cut off his feet and remove about .06 from the legs and glue the feet back on. The 1/72 Prieser figures are about 6 foot tall in 1/76. I want them about 5-7 to fit the earlier era. Fortunately the Preiser figures tend to be long legged so the shortend legs are not as noticeable. No blood but keeping track of loose feet is a problem

Here are 2 more shortened and backdated Preisers with Engineer BIll on the ground. A true OO figure by Langley on the back of an HO MDC caboose as an 1870's OO caboose behind MDC HO boxcars.

Harold

 

[Zman]

Stunning work as always. Not only are you an expert modeler, but a proficient surgeon as well.