10-29-2010, 12:08 PM
Greetings fellow procrastinators! Here is a description of my End of the Year Clearance Challenge.
I have started several steam locomotive projects in the past few years ranging from outright overhauls to simple detail upgrades. Two in particular stand out as candidates for this challenge. One is the Mantua Shifter project. It already has its own thread here:
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The other is more recent, but still a couple years old. It's the Mantua Classics 0-6-0T upgrade. This one has a video on Youtube, posted back in January 2009:
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Since the Shifter has its own thread, it's not really the focus of the challenge. What IS the focus will be finishing BOTH locomotives and painting/weathering them. I will also make a 'follow-up' video to the 0-6-0T vid.
Now there's also a Penn Line Atlantic basket case, an AHM 0-4-0 with slope back tender, a Bach. Spec. low-drivered 4-6-0, an IHC/Mehano Pacific, an IHC/Mehano Mike, and probably a few more I haven't thought about in a while that will ALL eventually become Ocali Creek Railway locomotives. Therefore I'm going to bite the bullet and order some custom lettering (rather than go letter by letter with dry transfers). That will be the first thing I do so that it'll be ready in time to complete the challenge. I've been working on the Shifter for so long that I think I'm fine to work on it up till Nov 1. I won't pick up the Tank engine (or order the decals) until after the start date.
Galen
I have started several steam locomotive projects in the past few years ranging from outright overhauls to simple detail upgrades. Two in particular stand out as candidates for this challenge. One is the Mantua Shifter project. It already has its own thread here:
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The other is more recent, but still a couple years old. It's the Mantua Classics 0-6-0T upgrade. This one has a video on Youtube, posted back in January 2009:
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHwEKB6YULU">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHwEKB6YULU</a><!-- m -->
Since the Shifter has its own thread, it's not really the focus of the challenge. What IS the focus will be finishing BOTH locomotives and painting/weathering them. I will also make a 'follow-up' video to the 0-6-0T vid.
Now there's also a Penn Line Atlantic basket case, an AHM 0-4-0 with slope back tender, a Bach. Spec. low-drivered 4-6-0, an IHC/Mehano Pacific, an IHC/Mehano Mike, and probably a few more I haven't thought about in a while that will ALL eventually become Ocali Creek Railway locomotives. Therefore I'm going to bite the bullet and order some custom lettering (rather than go letter by letter with dry transfers). That will be the first thing I do so that it'll be ready in time to complete the challenge. I've been working on the Shifter for so long that I think I'm fine to work on it up till Nov 1. I won't pick up the Tank engine (or order the decals) until after the start date.
Galen
I may not be a rivet counter, but I sure do like rivets!