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Building a New Engine - ngauger - 09-13-2019 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. RE: Building a New Engine - ngauger - 09-13-2019 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. RE: Building a New Engine - ngauger - 09-13-2019 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 RE: Building a New Engine - ngauger - 09-13-2019 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. RE: Building a New Engine - ngauger - 09-13-2019 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. RE: Building a New Engine - ngauger - 09-13-2019 Close up of the rear of the engine RE: Building a New Engine - ngauger - 09-13-2019 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. RE: Building a New Engine - ngauger - 09-13-2019 Some close up views of the front and back with a roof beam in place RE: Building a New Engine - ngauger - 09-13-2019 More later as I work on it some more. RE: Building a New Engine - Charlie B - 09-13-2019 I guess this is a little large for your ngauge handle. Interesting build. Charlie RE: Building a New Engine - ngauger - 09-14-2019 (09-13-2019, 08:08 PM)Charlie B Wrote: I guess this is a little large for your ngauge handle. Interesting build. 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) RE: Building a New Engine - Charlie B - 09-14-2019 Well, if you want to see it in "N" you can look at it through binoculars the wrong way.... Charlie RE: Building a New Engine - ngauger - 09-14-2019 (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.... LOL too funny!!! RE: Building a New Engine - Tyson Rayles - 09-14-2019 Are you going to keep the Euro hook and loop or switch it over to American style knuckle couplers? RE: Building a New Engine - doctorwayne - 09-14-2019 Not only an interesting build, but also interesting how you were able to place two photos side-by-side. Wayne |