I must admit that this thread made me very nostalgic towards my first build of the Tyco/Mantua 0-6-0 “Big Six” kit. On a whim, I went to ebay; found several kits for sale, and just bought a new, sealed kit for about a hundred dollars. I can’t wait for it to get here.
Next video is up! Like the Bowser 4-8-2, this one is about getting the motor installed.
The spade was designed to go under the brush holder that you soldered to. Not saying this was a good idea, just what was planned I beleive. Had an MDC model (I think MDC) that did that.
Hi Darth,
I just watched videos #2 & 3. As I said before, your ability to make bad things good is amazing! Very informative and interesting!
Cheers!!
Dave
Oh, silly me, I didn’t realize the video was the content and was wondering why I was just seeing comments about other builds.
Excellent video and tutorial on a difficult project. I have never attempted an Arbour Models kit, so I cannot comment. I have in years back built every Penn Line (now Bowser) Pennsy kit along with the NYC K-11. I totally enjoyed the hours I spent and realized that this is not for everyone, but could be for many. I also encountered problems, but had a ball solving them and the final products turned out OK. then I discovered brass and the rest is history. Now I build all of my rolling stock from wood kits, but mostly scratch build along with structures. Many youngin’s are missing out today on the thrill and pride of accomplishment of building trains and structures vs. just buying RTR. Hopefully this video series will encourage some to go beyond RTR as it is truly a work of great art in itself…great job and thanks for doing this. Please check out www.zanestructures.com to see my scratch-built work or www.nacesvideography.com to see layout and new 2 hour video.
Thanks for the links.
I am a huge fan of your modeling, and love your layout.
-Kevin
That’s really a great looking layout! Nice work on all that!
Time for part 4! Funny how something this small with so few parts can still take so much work.
. Way way back when the fish just started growing legs I was into building scale models. The main thing I learned was to treat every part of the model as a separate model. This way when everything goes together you can take pride in your accomplishments. Then after you bring home the blue ribbon you can blow it to peices with an M80.
I built one Bowser I1s many moons ago. Still one of the best running locos I have. That thing could be used to pull stumps out of the yard.
Nice job Darth.
Pete.
Great work and thanks for sharing. I like your trick about using CA and soda to fill gaps in the boiler. I used putty in the past, but I’ll try CA in the future.
Simon
And now we’re onto assembling the tender!
Glad I never bought one of those kits, the MDC shay was bad enough.