DairyStateDad
Mumbling in the corner
Years ago the 19 year old in the living room who will be leaving for South Korea in 3 days to report to his first post as an army MP gave me for Christmas an inexpensive Bachman F-unit. Of course, it has no place in a 1930s-era short line, but I have hoped to repurpose it mostly for sentimental reasons, so I'm figuring on kit-bashing it into a freelance doodlebug. (I've got a copy of the old Art Curren story in which he does the same with, I think, an Athearn SW-7.)
I already know that I will need to replace the side frames on the F-unit trucks, but here is my one concern. I'm pretty sure that the wheels are a scale 42 inches. Pretty much all of the doodlebug I've been seeing in old pictures look like they're probably 33 or 36 inches. Of course, I'm not planning to follow a particular prototype, but I would like to think that it would be plausible.
So those of you with more historical and prototypical knowledge than I do... Can I get away with this?
I already know that I will need to replace the side frames on the F-unit trucks, but here is my one concern. I'm pretty sure that the wheels are a scale 42 inches. Pretty much all of the doodlebug I've been seeing in old pictures look like they're probably 33 or 36 inches. Of course, I'm not planning to follow a particular prototype, but I would like to think that it would be plausible.
So those of you with more historical and prototypical knowledge than I do... Can I get away with this?