While I was taking photos of my S-2 switcher with the opened up hood doors, I also shot some of a steam engine being scrapped: (click to enlarge)
Again, one of my “yesteryear” models, made from a dummy plastic Hudson first offered by Monogram. I tried to make appear to be on the scrap line, with pieces here and there being cut out and removed.
Most of the work was on the tender, which had a molded in coal load, which I had to cut out. Then I had to make a floor in the tender and add the tubing extending down to the bottom to simulate the automatic stoker. Another tube at the front of the tender for the same purpose. The hatches at the back were cut open, a piece cut out of the side, remaining coal glued in, etc.
When these models first came out they were $4.00 each, so I got a lot of modeling use for four bucks! They were later released by several firms and I think they are still available. I’ve gone through several of them over the years.
One I cut the front 25 feet or so off and stuck it in one of the doors of my roundhouse. The roundhouse was only partially deep on my 2’ wide modules, and with the engine sticking part way out it looked like the structure had much more depth. The link to my website shows the roundhouse on the first pair of modules.
I painted another one with brass paint and placed in on the included track sections. Looks just like a brass engine! The poor man’s brass!
Bob–great work!! Although being a dyed in the wool steam freak, it kind of hurts to see the photos, LOL! BTW, your logging post in this weeks “Foto Fun” is just beautiful–you’re really a masterful modeler–AND photographer!
Tom [:D]
Bob, great photos, great thinking, I think I will start sawing up my brass 5900 to get this effect. I’m pretty sure Monogram made a plastic kit of a big boy or something like it , I think there was a series of different locos made, right???
BOB, that look’s GREAT[:P] i love to see scrap loco’s represented on a model, it gives it a true to life image, this is one i did below, it’s a UK 4-6-2 pacific Coronation class that has had a very good coat of instant rust, it’s an old TriAng model from the sixties and it still works so my son can still use it, he thinks the rust is great.
I have an old Varney metal FA shell, crumbeled from age, I could use it as a scrapped FA unit…been trying to think of a use for the shell, like an accident in the river…
The Hudson and the Big Boy were just re-released last summer by Revell Germany, ( A subsidary of Revell-Monogram) but the prices have gone way up. The Big Boy now lists for $29.99 and the hudson for $19.99.
They are still very common on ebay however. Con-Cor was the firm selling them in the late 90s. They offered the Hudson in NYC and Chessie
Monogram had to my knowledge the Hudson offered in NYC, Chessie and ATSF. They also offered the hudson in their chrome plated "Metal Master series with chessie decals. I have seen the Big Boy in UP, DM&IR, and B&O.
Those make me sad, but it’s a part of life.
I have my own wreck(s). One of them, the best one, is of a 2-6-0 that was built before I was born, and I have no idea who makes it. It is missing it’s drivers, wheels, tender, and paint, and is in about 2’ of rockslide. It looks a lot better then I expected it to.
Trainboy
