Vertical Boiler engine freelanced model

[LLOYD]

Hello from France,

enclosed some photo of my last work!
A vertical Boiler engine in On30, freelanced model without claim!
I sart this project with frame of the Ballast Car B'man and change the wheels with the wheels of lead trucks Forney for a better size!
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[LLOYD]

For the deck, I cut 90 millimeters by 40 millimeters from Evergreen # 4100 styrene!
I open the place for the motor!
The frame and pilot beam are in wood!
Pilot steep are from B'man parts.
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[LLOYD]

My fisrt idea it was scratchbuilt a classic vertical boiler, but impossible for cover the motor!
I choice a big HO boiler from Rio Grande Model!
The extended fire boxe is probably not credible for this little engine but is perfect for cover the motor!

I carved the place with Dremel, and for add  weight I make a 12 millimeters hole for a Sharps 45/110 lead bullet!
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Journals and Link & Pine are made with 0,5 millimeters of styrene.
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[LLOYD]

Boiler in place!

[LLOYD]

water tank is made from styrene and covered with aluminium!
Add the minimum of details!
hand rail and tubing are made from galvanized iron wire!
Now this little engine is ready to paint and weathering!

[LLOYD]

The cylinders are from HO donkey's parts from scrapbox

[LLOYD]

Finished model !
Realy fun to built this!
But after some run on my layout the Bullshit B'man motor dead.....grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.....
I changed this by an N scale Marklin motor, now this little engine run better !

[LLOYD]

Compadre, sorry for my poor english!
It's more easy for me to scratchbuilt Railroad Models!
Sincerely!
Lloyd

[Waldbahner]

Hello Lloyd,

again a great piece of modeling. I also like the fine weathering on your models.

BTW. don't worry about your english. I'm from Germany and I teach my english every day => By reading and posting in several English speaking model railroad forums. What type of english lesson could be more fun ;-)

Cheers, Gerd

[michael mott]

Nice lookin model LLoyd, great to see the pics from start to finish.

cheers Michael

[lucas gargoloff]

Another good example in scratchbuilding with everything you have in the scrapbox. Tanks for sharing Lloyd!!

[LLOYD]

Thanks for your kind words Compadres!
With my opinion this website is one of best, to learn and share many ideas on model making!
Sincerely and so long!

Lloyd

[marc_reusser]

Another neat project!...and again so fast!...do you practice "speed building"!

Your English is far, far better than my French!

Ne vous inquiétez pas pour votre anglais. Il est très bien. La seule langue qui est vraiment important ici est la modélisation.

Marc

[LLOYD]

Merci pour tout Marc!

I have still some good models to show on htis fabulous website!
Sincerely!

Lloyd

[Franck Tavernier]

Nice Job and good weathering!