View Full Version : HO scale steam locos from kits


Y3a
08-28-2006, 04:44 PM
I build Bowser kits. BIGTIME. I've built over 50 of them from the little docksiders with superdetail kits, to the Challenger, and more H9's and K4's than you can shake a stick at.

I model the N&W in the 1930's.. i've built 6 of the USRA 4-8-2's with a LOT of changes.

I really need a model RR manufacturer to build JUST TENDERS. Any type that was proprietary to any road. N&W, PRR, UP, C&O etc.

I have a N&W 4-8-0 M2c project that I need to make a NEW boiler body for. The one I have right now is a prototype to see how all the details fit.
http://photos.hobbytalk.com/data/571/medium/4664.jpg

http://photos.hobbytalk.com/data/571/medium/2-10-2srr.jpg

http://photos.hobbytalk.com/data/571/medium/Y3-1.jpg

http://photos.hobbytalk.com/data/571/medium/M2c.jpg

http://photos.hobbytalk.com/data/571/medium/K3-2.jpg

HookupsXXX4
08-28-2006, 09:43 PM
Anyway we could see some pictures?

Jerry
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Y3a
08-29-2006, 09:47 AM
OK here a few...

1st a Bowser 4-6-6-4 from a kit. nothing fancy, just very heavy and pulls a LOT.

2nd, a Bowser USRA 2-10-2 as Southern version. Slight details, but still unfinished as the valve gear has not been applied.

3rd, a Powerhouse USRA 2-8-8-2 N&W Y3 with lots of added tender detail and a repaint & weathering.

4th, a scratchbuilt N&W 4-8-0 M2c - heaviest of the wheel arrangement. I'm gonna build a fleet of these!

5th, a Brass N&W K3 4-8-2. Rebuilt, repainted, and re-quartered and remotored. Heaviest of the wheel arrangement.

Macs_Little_Car
09-03-2006, 12:11 PM
Very, very cool!!! Nice work!

toyroy
09-24-2006, 12:05 PM
I bought a Tyco Pacific kit once. Holy Chinese death-camp labor, Batman! I was blown away by all the various tiny rivets and links used to assemble the valve gear. And all the other work involved, only to end up with a measley, stinking Tyco Pacific. Phooey.

Asphalt Cowboy
08-25-2007, 11:00 PM
Are the Bowser A-5's any good? Bet they're challenging!