vsmith
G Scale indoors, O Tinplate, Micro Layouts
After looking at the D500 homemade loco built for the Southern San Luis Valley RR I wondered what something similar using a bobber caboose might look like, a few days work and I came up with this:
Interesting but no matter what it still looked too much like a bog standard bobber. So after some puzzling until my puzzler was sore, then I thought, what if I just turned the cupola 90 degrees, so out came the impliments of destruction, some extra works and I think it works alot better now:
The glue isnt even dry in these pics.
The drive is from an LGB Trolley, the sideframes are MDC and the rest is whatever I had laying around. Decided to paint the ends black and add warning strips
Strips added, I used a sheet of Micromark decal cut to size, then coated with a clear coat. Makes a big addition in making it look less caboosey and more locomotivey.
Still needs to be weathered.
Interesting but no matter what it still looked too much like a bog standard bobber. So after some puzzling until my puzzler was sore, then I thought, what if I just turned the cupola 90 degrees, so out came the impliments of destruction, some extra works and I think it works alot better now:
The glue isnt even dry in these pics.
The drive is from an LGB Trolley, the sideframes are MDC and the rest is whatever I had laying around. Decided to paint the ends black and add warning strips
Strips added, I used a sheet of Micromark decal cut to size, then coated with a clear coat. Makes a big addition in making it look less caboosey and more locomotivey.
Still needs to be weathered.
