I somewhat randomly decided I was tired of the wrong rear truck and other missing details on my M-1 finished in '09 so I rectified that. It was missing some minor details like the step on the smokebox front, the pilot steps, junction boxes for the marker lights on the handrails and bell/whistle ropes.

prepaint add ons (the stuff thats white)


The old rear truck next to the scratch built new truck that is in place. The old truck was taken off an IHC 2-8-2 or 4-6-2 I don't remember which.


Ready for action. The weathering got a little touched up in the process as well.

Casey--Wow! Detail and weathering are fantastic.--Dave

Casey, if it's not too much trouble could we see a another close up pic or two (maybe of the inside) of that truck? Really nice work.

I will try to take some pictures when I get home from work tomorrow with better light, the wheel is a mantua 2-8-2 camelback rear truck wheel from the stash of unused mantua parts. The only part used was some plastic frame leaf springs I picked up at a show that I thought might go on the LNE 2-8-0 but I really didn't have the space. I'm not sure who made them I got them loose not in a package. The spring got cut in half and space out a little over the journal box which is a shaped piece of rectangle styrene stock with a hole started in the back for the Bearing like any ho style friction bearing. It actually works better then the IHC truck which liked to derail in reverse moves.

Truck pictures, can't really go back to unpainted but with my camera you see more detail with it painted anyway.




I started with the base plate on the bottom which is a rectangle .010 with the 2 slots for the wheels to fit through cut out then the journal box is glued to the bottom spaced to fit the axle, the .010 base is nice since you can flex it down to pop the wheel in and out. then the spring, the plate that goes around the journal box, the braces around the journal box (little triangles), the latch hinge (little vertical strip) and theres a little bottom brace under the journal box too.

bottom


a little blurry top...


The engine is built off a specturm 2-8-0 so the truck connection is a simple bracket of a piece of .040 glued to the bottom frame plate with a piece of styrene rod just long enough to not let it slip over before it hits the bottom of the frame.

The bottom plate is still a little pulled down from taking the truck off in the picture.

Really neat styrene fabrication! I was just going to order one from Bachmann. If you know how to work a cad program, that'd be a great candidate for a 3D piece. Thanks for the pics and details! Since you have the M-1 out, how did you make the extra boiler section to enlarge the I-10 shell?