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 Posted - December 27 2008 : 12:01:10 PM
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i am so glad that santa clause brought me a Bowser Mike
I am living in Austria/Europe, we ordered it in the USA and they missent it to Autralia, from there it came back to Austria. so it traveled around the whole world!
For my friends in the USA: Australia is in the Pacific, Austria is in Europe over the Atlantic!    
using a bigger hammer instead an anvil makes it easy to assembly the valve gear with the rivets.
ready assambled valve gear
ready for track test - erich
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Posted - December 27 2008 : 12:03:45 PM
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| nice one Erich the worlds most traveled mike ken
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Posted - December 27 2008 : 12:16:20 PM
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Yep...Austria is where you throw shrimp on the barbie, flat out like a lizard drinkin'...
...Australia is home of the Alps and Julie Andrews...
Nice work on that Mike, I have the K4 from back in the Penn Line transition. What do you think of their later releases? I found their rivet tool quite effective and their kits much easier to do than they first appear.
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 Posted - December 27 2008 : 12:40:49 PM
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Erich,
Apologies for my geographically illiterate fellow citizens... thank the public school system that doesn't even teach basics like geography anymore. It's either that, or selling on eBay seems to automatically make people stupid.
The poor Mikado hasn't even been built, and it's already got about 10,000 miles on it.
Bowser kits are awesome. I haven't built one yet, but would like to. Post photos when you're done (or even in the before).
Nice K4, Shaygetz. I bet she pulls stumps.
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Posted - December 27 2008 : 12:44:34 PM
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hi Shaygets
i am glad that you now the difference between Austria (Schwarzenegger) and Australia (Kangaroo)! .
This is my first Bowser kit i am working on. But i like all the old school Locos made of diecast. i also like to have a Mantua Mike. erich
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Posted - December 27 2008 : 3:14:37 PM
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Hi Nelson
Special for your interrests i add this pic!
to be continued - erich
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Posted - December 28 2008 : 01:46:01 AM
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Is there much flash on the castings Erich? It looks very clean. I had a Mantua 2-8-0 kit with really bad flash, to the point it formed webbing between the cylinders and the steam pipes.
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Posted - December 28 2008 : 06:46:43 AM
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Hi Nelson
there is some flash to file from the casting! there are some parts you can not put together without filing ( like inserting wheels in the frame). very much is on the tender frame. important thing is to take your time and a different set of files.
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Posted - December 28 2008 : 07:06:32 AM
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Have some Problems with posting pics
so here it is want to show
i also use fibreglasspen to clean! erich
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Posted - December 28 2008 : 12:15:28 PM
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filing work is going on - erich
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Posted - January 03 2009 : 07:07:05 AM
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installing cylinder bleed
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Posted - January 17 2009 : 05:36:23 AM
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i am not always working on the mike. but i will post pics when i do the next steps.
in the meantime i send you this interessting link:http://www.trainboard.com/grapevine/showthread.php?t=53040 - Erich
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Posted - January 17 2009 : 5:15:56 PM
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If it's any consolation guys, not all American's are geography defficient. Just an overdone cliche'!
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Posted - January 25 2009 : 12:08:48 PM
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worked a little bit and finshed truck. Had some problems with to small holes in the pilot for the hangers of the coupler arm, also holes in hangers are to small, the coupler arm was to short. drilled all the small holes a little bit bigger and bend a new coupler arm by myself. - Erich
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Posted - February 08 2009 : 1:10:38 PM
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Added new parts to the Mike. also installed DCC. - Erich
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Posted - February 08 2009 : 1:20:48 PM
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| nice one erich gotta get me one ken
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Posted - February 08 2009 : 5:52:21 PM
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That is lovely. I'd like to get a Bowser Decapod down the road. If someone has one and wants to trade PM me!?
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Posted - February 08 2009 : 5:57:25 PM
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| and me nice hefty items ken
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Posted - February 08 2009 : 6:10:39 PM
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Puts a very different slant on the hobby! Building as opposed to buying...
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Posted - February 08 2009 : 6:25:02 PM
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| have about 20 locos in attice that i built many years ago,djh,wills finecast etc ken
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Posted - February 08 2009 : 6:41:16 PM
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Ken;
Whats finecast?
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Posted - February 10 2009 : 3:18:27 PM
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quote:Puts a very different slant on the hobby! Building as opposed to buying...
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I have a lot stuff of austrian locos and cars . but i was not pleased only to buy them, i like to build and put some life to it. so I changeg to american. many years ago you could buy many kits, but now its not so easy. but i keep on trying - Erich
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Posted - January 06 2010 : 2:09:43 PM
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Worked again on the mike, (Handrails,steps,piping) - Erich
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Posted - January 06 2010 : 3:19:41 PM
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finecast is a company who made diecast kits,fine scale are collectors/makers of exact detail locos,ie rivet counters ken
ps nothing wrong with rivet counters or toy collectors,or big boys playing with toys,makes the world go round
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Posted - January 06 2010 : 3:27:53 PM
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quote:finecast is a company who made diecast kits,fine scale are collectors/makers of exact detail locos,ie rivet counters ken
Originally posted by catfordken-January 06 2010: 3:19:41 PM
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Do not know exactly what you mean Ken. I am far away from rivet counting. By the way I have a Athearn Tinplate too and I like it very much! - Erich
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Posted - January 06 2010 : 3:40:18 PM
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| hi erich it was a reply to gareth question ken
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Posted - January 06 2010 : 3:47:17 PM
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Hi Ken!
Dont know whats wrong with the "urge", to me it was a joke - Erich
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Posted - January 06 2010 : 3:50:50 PM
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| i know that but others don`t get it lol,ken
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Posted - January 24 2010 : 2:53:05 PM
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Nearly finished the Mike. Bending , soldering and installing the piping sometimes drove me nuts!
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Posted - January 24 2010 : 4:04:56 PM
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| looking great there erich,now the second hardest part,the painting,good luck ken
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Posted - January 25 2010 : 2:38:45 PM
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quote:looking great there erich,now the second hardest part,the painting,good luck ken
Originally posted by catfordken-January 24 2010: 4:04:56 PM
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Sorry Ken, no painting! - Erich
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Posted - January 25 2010 : 4:44:16 PM
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Good looking loco. I've always wanted to get a Bowser kit - the harder, the better - but they're hard to find around here. Oh well - local club's "auction night" is this Wednesday and there's always good things up for grabs.
And I second the idea about painting. Sometimes it seems like a sin to have to cover all that intricate work with paint. I'm there now with a heavily-modified MDC-Roundhouse Alco RS3 that's been detailed as an ex-NKP locomotive (besides being modified from a Phase 2 to Phase 3, there are all kinds of other road-specific details). I just gave it a paint job two days ago (NKP black and yellow) and now I can't see all the separate details - at least until I weather it and they all visually pop out again...
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Posted - January 25 2010 : 4:59:34 PM
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| i can see where you both are coming from,but putting the detail on,surely is to make it more prototypical,but never see a real one naked of all paint,so its all defeated by not being painted,but like i have said before,its down to what makes your boat float,ken
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Posted - January 26 2010 : 03:09:32 AM
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quote:i can see where you both are coming from,but putting the detail on,surely is to make it more prototypical,but never see a real one naked of all paint,so its all defeated by not being painted,but like i have said before,its down to what makes your boat float,ken
Originally posted by catfordken-January 25 2010: 4:59:34 PM
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If you color it, you could also buy a plastic one!
I do not color it, to show its different.
But I am planing to color the next Bowser and weathering it heavyly.
When the kits where popular in the fifties or sixties coloring of them was a normal thing everybody did. Think thats you meant Ken. - Erich
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