Well, this is about as close as this will get to "finished" before the Challenge ends at midnight tonight...





...but I will continue to post here as I work to finish this project. Still to be done is lots of brush-painting of details, and the application of various clear-coats, plus adding a crew and some weathering.

Wayne

Lumpy and I give a well deserved two thumbs up Doc

I have heard so much about this locomotive, I am glad to see it on the tracks. Great job Wayne.
Charlie

Looking very nice Wayne

Mark

Thanks, guys.

Even though the Challenge has ended, I'm still working on this locomotive. I've done some more painting and am now working on the lettering.
After that, it'll be out to the paint shop for more paint....mostly clear coats in varying degrees of glossiness, then some glass for the windows and a crew, followed by some photos. After that, weathering will come next.

Wayne

Finally...painted, lettered, lenses, window glass, and crew all in place...







...with weathering still to be done.

Wayne

Doc,
really, a great model again! Congratulation! I admire your work and I'm a bit enviously, sorry.

Beautiful loco!

Thanks, guys.
I'm glad that it's almost finished, but wish that I would have had the sense to have not bought it in the first place. While it runs well enough, it's not a great puller, which is a real disadvantage on my twisting and hilly mainline, and that makes it unsuitable as a pusher, the role in which I had envisioned it. Perhaps a shelf queen, or the star in a scrapping scene?

Wayne

Or some Bullfrog Snot on the drivers? I've always been afraid to try the stuff, anybody here tried it?

Tyson Rayles Wrote:Or some Bullfrog Snot on the drivers? I've always been afraid to try the stuff, anybody here tried it?

I'd prefer to not go that route....I feel the same about using an artificial traction enhancer as I do about about the use of silicone as an enhancer of certain "attractions".

Wayne

But Wayne millions of men LOVE silicon, I'm not one of em' mind you!

Wayne,
that is an very excellent work!

Cheers Lutz

An artificial traction enhancer ...Doc, I think yup have just coined yourself a new phrase. With two tenders and two sets of drivers, she's a beast and a half.

The traction problem is probably plugged sanders.
Charlie