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 Posted - June 07 2021 : 12:51:15 PM
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It's been a while since I have posted anything on this forum and that's because I have been working on a very special project...
Because I love narrow gauge trains I have always wanted to model them but hon3 trains are so darn expensive. But recently I found a roundhouse hon3 2-8-0 kit on ebay that I liked so I bidded and won!
Here is the process of me building it:
I wanted to model this locomotive which worked on a branchline of the Rio Grande Southern Railroad that served a mine near perins peak west of Durango:
But I realized that it would just take too many modifications to make this locomotive so I decided to model Rio Grande Southern #42
So that is what I did.
I started by filing down the flashing on the Die Cast mechanism parts
the sprayed on the primer on the parts that I was going to paint
then I sprayed them matte black
I then brush painted the firebox
then I started Building the Mechanism
Unfortunately the main rod broke and I couldn't fix it but then I had an Idea, I took at piece of wire and made a loop on the end to be able to the pin in the crosshead then, I used epoxy to attatch the wire to the main rod. and... It worked! (fingers crossed it stays that way)
here is a video of bench testing the mechanism:
https://youtu.be/XaUaCeH0iJg
with That done I started working on the cosmetic details
I started by filling in a gap in the walkway where the air compressors go
using a piece of plastic and some epoxy. then I glued one of the air compressors on top of the wakway like on RGS #42.
Then I sprayed on the primer then the black paint
and I also brush painted the smokebox silver
Then I sprayed on some gloss clear coat for the deacls to stick to
and then applied the decals and sprayed on matte clear coat on top of them
then I could finally put the shell on the mechanism
 
I am almost done with the loco now all I need to do Is weather it and add a coal load!
And of course I still need an hon3 layout to run it on and some hon3 cars for it to pull 
This was my first time ever Building a locomotive kit and It was hard! But I had a lot of fun and learned a lot of things!
Edited by - Erik The Train Nerd on June 07 2021 12:52:26 PM
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Posted - June 07 2021 : 4:06:54 PM
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This is an amazing undertaking. Doesn't HOn3 just use
N scale track?
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Posted - June 07 2021 : 5:22:19 PM
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quote:This is an amazing undertaking. Doesn't HOn3 just use
N scale track?
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â June 07 2021Â :Â 4:06:54 PM
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Standard gauge in N is 9mm which is about 30" in HO.
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Posted - June 07 2021 : 5:25:15 PM
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| yep, I gotta get special hon3 track
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Posted - June 07 2021 : 9:58:57 PM
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Looks amazing, Erik! Great work!
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Posted - June 08 2021 : 5:30:01 PM
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| Really, special HOn3 track?
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Posted - June 09 2021 : 9:18:38 PM
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Looks good! I suggest Micro Engineering Code 70 flex track.
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Posted - June 10 2021 : 1:53:08 PM
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Has that really neat narrow gauge look, that of an elephant in ballerina
shoes. I could not do what you have accomplished. I got extra loose HO
coal, if you want some. I'll drop it in an envelope. PM me if wanted.
Edited by - Chops124 on June 10 2021 1:54:17 PM
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Posted - June 16 2021 : 12:28:11 PM
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| Thanks for all the kind comments, Chops thanks for the offer but I already put a coal load in the tender
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Posted - June 16 2021 : 11:55:32 PM
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Mine is leftover from last Christmas. Came in the stocking. 
Edited by - Chops124 on June 16 2021 11:56:15 PM
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Posted - June 17 2021 : 09:05:40 AM
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Lmao 
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