Hello everyone!The last project I posted was my articulated fairlie. I finished that in august and until now I have been pretty busy with school work. But I have ordered a Bachmann anniversary edition locomotive for my next project, #20. I have already begun the process of converting the tender to look perfect. The stock annie tender is pretty hopeless but I have completely rebuilt it and added part of another 4-6-0 tender to the bottom of it to make it the proper height. I also added a new ladder on the rear, put appropriate trucks on it, added an air tank, added wooden sideboards, and cut down all the plastic sideboards on the top, thus shortening the length of the coal bin. I still need to add a round water hatch behind the air tank and I still need steps and hand rails. I also still need lettering, I am going to letter the version of the engine after it starred in "A Ticked to Tomahawk" when it was repainted black but still had the clipper ship on the tender. It says Rio Grande Southern in white above the ship.
When I get the locomotive I must do a number of things to it including giving it new cylinders and cross heads as well as lowering the front running boards and many more things. The locomotive was also repainted black after the movie, but it kept a red bell holster and red headlight brackets. I intend to paint it like so. I will keep you all posted with my progress, here are some pictures of the tender.
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I don't have the shell screwed on in this picture so there is kind of a gap there.
Thanks for looking!
When I get the locomotive I must do a number of things to it including giving it new cylinders and cross heads as well as lowering the front running boards and many more things. The locomotive was also repainted black after the movie, but it kept a red bell holster and red headlight brackets. I intend to paint it like so. I will keep you all posted with my progress, here are some pictures of the tender.
Thanks for looking!
