Falk Locomotive build

[dougkast]

OMG...very nice, good work

[bparrish]

Hal...

I'm not sure about special orders.  At the rate I'm going...... at a buck and hour you still couldn't afford me.

Some of this stuff I'm painfully slow at and other stuff comes in on the first try.  On the dome top photo that I most recently put up............ I hadn't used an indexing table in nearly twenty years.  Most stuff in HO just doesn't need to be that precise.  G and F scale is all different.  This is my first foray at such a large scale.

I got the stack base done and the hold down devices done for the dome and stack base.  I'll get the line up for that done yet today.  The boiler front is also done but not soldered on yet as I need to bolt down the stack and dome first.  It really matters that straight up on all of this is really straight up.

Thanx'
Bob

[halrey]

Bob, I figured that was the case.


Most of what we all build is hard to price, without putting the builder well below minimum wage...


Great job, keep posting.


Hal

[bparrish]

So today was a good day at the "office".

Got the dome and stack base on the boiler and built the boiler front and mounting to the frame.

I'm done ! ! ! !  I'm headed for a beer now.......... don't any one get in the way of me and the fridge ! ! !

see ya
Bob

[DaveInTheHat]

Fantastic!  Beautiful  workmanship.

I glued wood to brass with Loctite Professional. I scuffed the brass with 80 grit sandpaper. Clear Silicone works too.

[bparrish]

Dave.......

I've gotten far enough away from the failure of the wooden cab that I have brought myself to metal and putting some sort of paint on it and getting over the absence of wood grain.

Thanx
Bob

[clevermod01]

I just love seeing real craftsmanship in metal. Great work

[bparrish]

OK.................

It doesn't seem possible that it took two days to get the firebox and back head built.  I've never made a compound curve on a sheet brass panel before.  I procrastinated on the back head from the very beginning for that reason.

I had too much fun making up the valves and the sight glass.  I found a piece of optical fiber that measures out at .024 which comes out at something over a half inch in G scale. I still have a bunch of fitting and cleaning.

Lower cab front panels are next.  These had to be separate as they are mounted to the base plate so that the cab is easily removable.

I had to scale the fire box a little tall so as to get the motor in.  Never I thought I would struggle for space in G scale.

see ya
Bob

[S&S RR]

Bob

Great work! The brass cab looks great! Keep posting the pictures I'm really enjoying this.

[bparrish]

Spent the whole day on this one and at the end was not mentally healthy enough to tie the second lever hand latch.

I'll get to it tomorrow.

see ya
Bob

[gnatshop]

Three out of two of us'ns lack adequate detail attention skills, plus enough grey matter
up there to fake it!

This is awesome, but is this an Idiho thang, or did your wife tell you to quit botherin' her and start some time-consumin', detailed thing?

If she did, we love her !!!   

[bparrish]

David........

Vivian is pretty tolerant of most stuff I think up having to do with the railroad.

I have a work schedule I fit inside of that does not include evenings or weekends.  But when you are retired that isn't a tough schedule away from the bench.

Thanx
Bob

[clevermod01]

This is just plain beautiful. Do you ever think that maybe you should have just gone with live steam. It sure looks like it.

[S&S RR]

Bob

The detail work on this just keeps getting better and better. I'm finding this thread to be my first stop in the morning just to see if you made any progress.

[bparrish]

John

You're turning up the heat on me....


Thanx
Bob