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OK, here's the prototype picture of my latest project.
This picture is the frame as she sits right now. Just a bit of painting and weathering and I think it's done. The tank half was cut off, then using thin aluminum, I reformed it and tore it apart. You can also see the basic work done to the shell. All the normal parts installed, then the cutting grinding, and smashing was done to it.
This is the front of the cab showing the tear down and some of the metalwork added.
This last one shows the back of the cab with the door opened.
I got the cab all glued back on last night and did some sheet metal work on the torn part of the cab. Tonight at work I did a few more doors on the hood, then did a little weathering for the entire engine. The handrails are on, glued, painted, then cut up etc. I've got the cab interior and battery box yet to do. I need some help with the battery box area. If anyone has an idea what I can use to make that tore up battery, please give me a shout.
Jerome, that engine is looking more and more like a real piece of junk. I love the way you did the doors. As for the batery, stop at a craft shop like Michaels and get some florist's green sticky clay. You can put it in the battery box, form it to look like those squashed batteries, and then paint it. No glue needed, this stuff sticks to anything. It's actually a really good thing to have around the layout for sticking just about anything to anything. Works great to hold weights inside locomotives and rolling stock.
If I ever have one of those "accidents" where a loco falls off of a layout I might try something like this. Someone else's loco falling off of the layout of course.
You could use small squares of tinfoil from chocolate bars, or maybe cut squares from a metal toothpaste tube, to make the battery plates from. They would have the right metallic look,and will deform as the real ones did.
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A friend at work gave me a couple of black LEGO blocks. I'm going to see if I can carve on them some and make that work. I liked the cardboard idea, so that'll be my back-up. Not too sure about the clay Jim. This model is for a man in Virginia. I'd be afraid that if he handled it too much, it would get smashed or fall off. I'm trying to make this as bullet proof as possible.
Fred, Josh, Chip, thank you for the complements. The next one is already started. I'm headed to a friend's house now to grind off another couple of fuel tanks. My destructive side is coming out again LOL
I love the way you did the doors. As for the batery, stop at a craft shop like Michaels and get some florist's green sticky clay. You can put it in the battery box, form it to look like those squashed batteries, and then paint it. No glue needed, this stuff sticks to anything. It's actually a really good thing to have around the layout for sticking just about anything to anything. Works great to hold weights inside locomotives and rolling stock.
