Looking good, Casey.

so you scratch built everything but the frame and drive mech. basicly all the white plastic. is that right? and the tender?
If so thats great. I may even get a LNE buddy of mine to finally check out this site. He loves LNE camelbacks.
Great job! Casey.

Yeah everything white and green, is scratch and it has the few parts I happened to have on it. The boiler is a piece of pvc I actually just found while helping clean up a family's homeI was going to use it to make my own boiler out of sheets of styrene but then realized it was the size I wanted already so just used it as is. If you consider the running gear as not used parts from something else I have like $30 in the project so far.

Also the repowered running gear is one of those brass gear boxes they made for a little bit with a motor stuck to the frame with something called VHB tape, a very strong foam tape I use at work a lot.

Do the rivet decals come in radii patterns, or did you have to scab the front of the smokebox in sections? Looks really good.

They do on the sheet just not large enough for a smoke box front that was the most time consuming part, I did it 2 at a time. And even though its being painted and you won't really see decal imperfections I still hit the shells with gloss coat before I put them on just so they would stick better.

Heres what the sheet looks like,

More Lehigh New England progress. I managed to be lucky and find a LNE O scale boxcar (I think) champion decal set for a tender logo. The cab doors will go on after some paint but paint will wait until headlight bulb is installed and I can add weight in the shell that is totally hollow right now, which I have yet to order.




and top plumbing view, mostly an educated guess only working from 2 pictures