Gn15 Critter No 2 Mantua into Mini-Porter

vsmith

vsmith

G Scale indoors, O Tinplate, Micro Layouts
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Started with one of these minus the tender:
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Some mindless violence with a razorsaw and some styrene and a good rifle thru the parts boxes :twisted:
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Add one MDC Big Hustler cab:
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Starting to get somewhere :D
 
Like it ! Nice one Vic.
 
Ran into a small issue, the cab makes this thing tail heavy as hell, any power applied now pops a wheelie and derails ..oops!

Guess I will be filling the smokebox with birdshot and epoxy, if worse comes to worse I can also fill the tank with birdshot as well..

But it looks good painted!
 
Good news is filling the smokebox with lead birdshot and epoxy seams to have fixed the wheelie problem, but I still suspect I need to add more weight into the tank to help it pull anything and if I want to add an engineer figure. replacing the pilot beam with one filled with shot was one suggestion I might try, otherwise its the tank that will get birdshot added.

Next major issue is adding couplers, the front not so worried about but the rear is definitively going to have to be swing mounted.
 
Hi Vic
That is a little loco , you have one hell of a big bits box.
What is the chimmey/stack made from.
Graham Shrewsbury.
 
GJFREESTONE said:
Hi Vic
That is a little loco , you have one hell of a big bits box.
What is the chimmey/stack made from.
Graham Shrewsbury.
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If you look at the second picture, I took the stack off the Mack loco bash and used it on the Gn15 bash, replacing the Mack's with a Scientific Toys stack. It is simply a styrene tube with two small wheels glued together on top... :-

Added Kadees front and rear, rear is on a swingarm, it now pulls the 3 ore skips well enough even if it waddles like a drunken duck.
 
It's bound to waddle with a wheelbase to gauge ratio like that, like the old BR short wheelbase wagons
 
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