My 1:16 adventure

[Rick]

Workbench, paint and weathering, as usual are top notch.
That chair scratched?

[Jerry]

Your usual top notch work!!  Love that coloring .

Jerry

[Larry C]

Fantastic!!! Are you sure that's a model? It looks that lifelike.

[ACL1504]

Amazing build and details. When I grow up I want to be a modeler like you sir.

Happy to hear the surgery is paying dividends with less pain.

Tom

[labdad]

Thank you. I have high standards.
Rick, yes scratch built.
Being a furniture maker and building Windsor chairs I figured I needed at least one.

ACL I'm here to inspire and help.
Let me know.

MJinTN

[Philip]

Good en! 

[labdad]

Well I been sandbagging on this one...
I built this about 10 years ago.
I didn't make the wheels, bevel gears and the boiler plaque. The boiler plaque was rendered by a friend in Germany (Volker) and printed in bronze.
I rendered and had printed a few details.
I still can not believe I built this.
I was over the moon when it rolled out of the shop!
It will eventually (with any luck) get a Bluenomi decoder.
If there is interest I have construction pictures.
MJinTN

[deemery]

Wow!  2 engine T-Boiler Shay!

dave

[Jerry]

I still like the "CRITTER" better!!!

But I'll give this one an A++++

Jerry

[Rick]

I was fortunate to see it in person.
Seeing it run and observing all the moving parts was amazing.
Marty, you are a top notch craftsman.

[Zephyrus52246]

Cool Shay.  Must have been an exacting build to get it to work.  Kudos!

Jeff

[labdad]

Thanks!
Always nice when someone can see it in person MJinTN

[Jerry]

I think you should show some of the construction photos so we can see how much work goes into building one of these!

Jerry

[labdad]

Here you go Jerry, the trucks.
The picture are from a book I had made while I had the images handy. Luckily I did since they're gone now.
The drawings you see are actual blue prints from
Lima locomotive.
MJinTN

[labdad]

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