Model Railroading > A little work from the back shops

Finished creating a Southern Pacific C26  # 3443  Consolidation in HO scale.  Used a Balboa C9 as a starting point.  The C26 has not been available from a commercial builder.
The F4 was completed using a boiler from a PSC F4.  All I had was the painted superstructure, no Smoke box front or cab.  Scrounged up an old LMB chassis from some
old 2-10-2 model.  The cab was made from a MDC Harriman cab from their 2-8-0.  It was in plastic so I sent it out to Valley Brass & Bronze and they burned it out in Brass.  
Much like the lost wax process except the plastic was vaporized instead of the wax pattern.  Then I re sized it to fit the front cab wall and platform of the PSC structure.

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Completed model

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Completed F4

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Those are some handsome looking 2-8-0's. I very much appreciate the effort and amount of work you have put into SP models.

Well done!!
SV

Put an  'MV' lens in the headlight and that will really finish off the locos.

Malcolm
New Zealand

Those are some great looking models that I realize you put a ton of work into. But the one issue that caught my eye right off the bat is that those headlights look like they are a little too low on the smokebox front.

http://www.steamlocomotive.com/consolidation/sp2825-garbutt.jpg

Ted Curphey
Ontario, OR



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 04/29/16 04:26 by funnelfan.

Stunning modeling!  Thank you for sharing your craftsmanship with us!

Cheers,
Harry

great job did you use polly scale for the paint thanks

I've been using a trick for the last 50 years on headlights and find they look great.  I've been putting bulbs in mine and they have the old "Golden Glow" look to them.
I bought some cotton tipped applicators with wood shanks I still have some Brasso left over from when I was in the Army back in the '60s.
What I do is snip the wooden shank of the "Q" tip about a 1/2" from the end, chuck it in a Dremel tool, dampen the cotton with Brasso.  About 15 seconds work will bring the reflector to a mirror brass finish.  Since I use the same headlights on all my Frisco engines, I made a punch for punching out the glass front and there you have it.
 

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Impressive work. Much respect!

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Wow!  Great work shown on each of the steam engines shown here.  Well done!

- Jeff Carlson

Nicely done Mr. Chris.

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Fantastic job on your locos! They certainly inspire me to continue on with my SP P-11 4-6-2 using an old NWSL 4-6-2. I'd never thought of using a plastic cab for a "lost wax" pattern. I knew that I had a stash of Roundhouse SP cabs for some reason or another...

EO

Very impressive craftsmanship conjoined with accurate SP modeling.
Thanks for showing us.

The SP models are excellent!   Not many of us dinosaurs doing this any more.