Start of a second kitbashing project

[AF350]

Here are 2 pics of the subject of my next adventure in kitbashing(note first kitbashing will continue for awhile before I discombobulate this train.

   

   

[AF350]

Here are some pics with what I have planned to do to the loco.

   

   

   

[gbwdude]

Looks like a neat project. Are you planning to get crazy with it and build it with DCC, sound and the whole nine? Or will this be just a modified Christmas Tree cat chaser? Either way I like taking toys and making them into something more realistic. It's a fun challenge.

[AF350]

Looks like a neat project. Are you planning to get crazy with it and build it with DCC, sound and the whole nine? Or will this be just a modified Christmas Tree cat chaser? Either way I like taking toys and making them into something more realistic. It's a fun challenge.

If the original mechanisim fits On30 / HO will just remove the sound portion takes up most of the cab space with the small motor underneth the sound board. It may also get a new paint job. I found these sets in a Lakeside catalog for a little over 8 bucks not bad for a conversion to On30 worse case look for an HO basket case small loco 0-4-0 or 0-6-0 conventional no DCC at this time I do have 2 command locomotives TMCC and DCS (Lionel S & MTH O)

When I see an odd sized battery op train with a nice loco and or cool train cars my mind starts formulating what it can be changed into. I used to be a member of COSG Central Ohio S Gaugers and at a show one time one of the members had a nice caboose with a santa figure in it I ask how he built it he said it was an old christmas ornament that he added S gauge trucks to. That caboose comes to mind whenever I find "toy" train sets with potential for kitbashing.

[AF350]

As luck would have it the gauge of the loco is almost spot on with HO/On30 gauge track however the flanges are too tall Like someone has already said it is a challenge Maybe I could glue a rubberband to the wheels or a heavy layer of bullfrog snot(a real product for making traction tires out of liquid green rubber that dries to an almost clear traction tire) as I said before worse case look for an Ho junker and do a boiler&cab transplant hock:

[AF350]

No progress yet here, but still Imagineering changes to be made to locomotive. Hope to have some progress on this by end of month.

[Sumpter250]

" Smokestack and dome touching, not much I can do about that" .......

I see two options possible......

hock: raise the stack, or, shorten the dome. 8-)
of the two, I would go with lowering the dome, it looks just a bit too tall.

That's what razor saws were made for.

[AF350]

Thanks for the idea , really do not like the looks of the dome anyway.

I looked at the work shop/bench the other day and that was about it, did run some trains for awhile.

[AF350]

This will be third in line to start and complete, old but not forgotten.