Thought I would share my progress. I'm building a new engine for the layout.
The wooden, bass wood, deck is 9" long and 4-1/4in wide.
The undercarriage will be hidden with a skirt of wood later.
I decided to try using India Ink for the first time to age the wood. Here are the before and after shots of the deck and a few pieces of wood.
Satisfied with the results of the color i found an online picture of a square wood engine to copy.
If I find it again, I'll post a link here.
So, I began by making the side walls (about 7-1/2 inches long)
Gluing them to a 1/4 X 1/4 inked piece of wood.
The left is the inside the right is the outside
Then it was a matter of designing the height of the roofline for the upright supports and what the outside of the walls should look like.
Top - the wall from the last post.
Bottom - The wall with the uprights and the outside bracing. The dots are nails I installed to supplement the white glue.
and after building the second wall, I positioned them on the base.
i then cut, glued and nailed strips to the rear to support the walls and act as the rear wall of the engine.
Close up of the rear of the engine
The most difficult was the arc of the roof top. Once my friend & I figured it out, I cut the joists out of the sheet of basswood.
i clamped and glued them to cross beams i installed across the tops of the uprights.
i also mounted a cross beam across the brass rods I put in the front of the engine and a support beam on the side of the roof joists.
next step is to install the other side support beam and design the steam boiler.
Some close up views of the front and back with a roof beam in place
More later as I work on it some more.
I guess this is a little large for your ngauge handle.
Interesting build.
Charlie
(09-13-2019, 08:08 PM)Charlie B Wrote: [ -> ]I guess this is a little large for your ngauge handle. Interesting build.
Charlie
Thanks!! We thought we needed a different engine to pull some passenger cars around the layout.
Gotta keep the passengers as happy as the freight.
I started in HO when I started working full time in 1982. My friends Fred & Wayne & I decided that we wanted more trains in the same area so in 1986 we sold the HO and bought all N. I kept some sort of N running through 2 moves until 1992 (after we moved to our present house) when my wife bought an LGB starter set from the place she worked.... Toys R us. More people knew me online at that time, so I kept Ngauger.
I slowly sold off the "N" skipped right over "O" and went full into Aristo Craft and Bachmann G Scale. We are officially, as of 5 or 6 years ago, in 1:20.3 Narrow Gauge because I bought the first generation Climax, so now I hand build most everything on the layout. (note last line of my signature)
Well, if you want to see it in "N" you can look at it through binoculars the wrong way....
Charlie
(09-14-2019, 06:00 AM)Charlie B Wrote: [ -> ]Well, if you want to see it in "N" you can look at it through binoculars the wrong way....
Charlie
LOL too funny!!!
Are you going to keep the Euro hook and loop or switch it over to American style knuckle couplers?
Not only an interesting build, but also interesting how you were able to place two photos side-by-side.
Wayne