One of my favorite critters: Jonan/Sugiyama Electric Boxcab

[Mr. Critter]

Because you folks seem to like pictures:  I picked this tiny HO standard gauge brass locomotive up off of eBay several years ago, simply because it was so weirdly charismatic, and I liked the way it looked.  Later research revealed that it was made by General Electric, and is in fact a three-rail, volt-powered locomotive, and not a simple diesel boxcab.  Machts nichts.  I'll be willing to suspend disbelief as it scoots around, or poses.

Had it custom re-painted last November.  It'd arrived factory-painted, with its cab a lurid pumpkin orange, a close match for its box, which I deeply loathed.  Asked the man with the airbrush to repaint the cab in VIA Rail yellow.  He glazed the windows while he was at it.

I aim to weather it with very light washes at some point.

It's only about 17 scale feet over the ends.  My sea kayak's longer.

[ACL1504]

Crit,

That's a very nice critter. Thanks for sharing.

Tom 

[Bernd]

Nice little engine. I'd attach a Mack hood and then call it a diesel.

That could be another brass project for me.

Bernd

[Mr. Critter]

I like the idea of grafting engine hoods on one of these, fore-and-aft, should I ever find another.  This one, though, I think I should leave unaltered.  They're not that thick on the ground.

I have a couple more oddities to photograph and post, if I can finagle good light.  An odd couple of GE electrics with Marvin Martian trolley poles, arguably the world's smallest standard gauge caboose (okay, not so odd, a Kadee product, still in the catalogue, to my surprise), a pair of unreasonably-small Climaxes which I feel qualify for Critter Status, even though they're two-trucked, and a re-proportioned Joe Works caricature of a tee-boiler Shay that beggars scale-ruler belief.  The late 1970s and early 1980s were the beginning of the Age of Ready-Made Brass Critters in Japan, I'm realizing.  But now, you can buy the wildest little motorized electric mouse kits on eBay.  From Japan.

[Philip]

Nice model.