Scratchbuilding on the cheep way
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Kurt Ubl
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Hello Mike,
You can have it, I reduced some pictures last night so I can show you something new.
Here are some cars I build for a friend in south of Germany.
These are longer cars made of two to match the original length. The last car is a fully detailed President Car with complete Interior and real carpets, kitchen, sleeping room, and all what was necessary in those times. The other is a post office on rails with fully interior. Surely interior lighting. By the way the rails are code 200 and all hand lad on mahogany ties so were the switches. LGB track was too expensive for more than 250 meters of track.
There is a prototype for everything!
More to come, stay tuned.
Kurt
You can have it, I reduced some pictures last night so I can show you something new.
Here are some cars I build for a friend in south of Germany.
These are longer cars made of two to match the original length. The last car is a fully detailed President Car with complete Interior and real carpets, kitchen, sleeping room, and all what was necessary in those times. The other is a post office on rails with fully interior. Surely interior lighting. By the way the rails are code 200 and all hand lad on mahogany ties so were the switches. LGB track was too expensive for more than 250 meters of track. There is a prototype for everything!
More to come, stay tuned.
Kurt
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Great work . Looks great. Do you have any more pictures of the stanz you converted to American style? I'm curious
Kurt Ubl
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Hello Jack44,
the stainz is from 1982 and my first conversion in this scale. Since then there were havy reworkings in both style and control. She had all kinds of command control,
Hornby, Maerklin, Uhlenbrock and so on, we used her to test several fetchers including remote uncupling, loading the battery by driving, light change and steam.
The tender shell is modified and sits on a wood car in appropriate length to match the air tank, two trucks with home poured side frames equalised with springs and 24" wheels made especially for me. The cab is completely wood with real glass windows, opening doors and sliding windows on both sides. It was not easy to saw 0,3mm in 1x1mm wood but it worked with microscope slides. As I said she was reworked several times and now she looks more Baldwin like. The forward trailing truck has 20" wheels made for me too. If you want I will take better pictures in the future this is what I have on hand.
There`s a Prototype for everything
Kurt
the stainz is from 1982 and my first conversion in this scale. Since then there were havy reworkings in both style and control. She had all kinds of command control,
Hornby, Maerklin, Uhlenbrock and so on, we used her to test several fetchers including remote uncupling, loading the battery by driving, light change and steam.
The tender shell is modified and sits on a wood car in appropriate length to match the air tank, two trucks with home poured side frames equalised with springs and 24" wheels made especially for me. The cab is completely wood with real glass windows, opening doors and sliding windows on both sides. It was not easy to saw 0,3mm in 1x1mm wood but it worked with microscope slides. As I said she was reworked several times and now she looks more Baldwin like. The forward trailing truck has 20" wheels made for me too. If you want I will take better pictures in the future this is what I have on hand.
There`s a Prototype for everything
Kurt
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Capt. Jack
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Wow I love it. Turned out really cool. Thanks for sharing. I want to try something like this sometime. I'm fairly new to this site but one thing I've learned from everyone is we love pictures . A video of it running would be great too. Regards Jack
Capt. Jack
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Awesome hope you find itHello Jack44
Video will come, have to find the 20 year old CD
Kurt
Capt. Jack
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Great video thanks for sharing. Great looking loco's and rolling stock.
Kurt Ubl
KURT
Second part of some more scratch building
I think the pictures are self explaining, the drive is Playmobil, wheels are turned for me and the side frames are lengthened 3mm to match the axles.
The super structure is plywood with coffee stierers. It is the car of a rolling blacksmith. Next comes the Blacksmith Car.
There`s a prototype for everything
Kurt
I think the pictures are self explaining, the drive is Playmobil, wheels are turned for me and the side frames are lengthened 3mm to match the axles.
The super structure is plywood with coffee stierers. It is the car of a rolling blacksmith. Next comes the Blacksmith Car.
There`s a prototype for everything
Kurt
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Capt. Jack
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Wow. That is some of the finest construction and detailing I have ever seen right up there with the best. Thanks for sharing. Makes me strive to get to that point with my modeling. Inspiring...