The shell now has 113 parts, all except 2 LED's and the steam bell are scratchbuilt or hand formed. I painted it black but have not taken photos. I drew up decals too, but have yet to print them.
Rob, I have to say, I like your scratch built boxcab better than the Shapeways brass one. No offense to Walt. For me it is the overall proportions and size of details. The only criticism I have are the domed lenses on the lights. Excellent work! Scott
The lenses are not domes, they have not yet been sanded in the photos you have seen. I have to finish the shell, then sand the lenses flat as a last step. which is why I did not bother to mask the lenses when I painted them. What I did was to cone out the plastic tube, paint the inside silver to act as a reflector, thread the LED's through. then backfill with a drop of UV resin. which is what caused the doming lens effect. So I am waiting on Zener Diodes so I can wire constant intensity LED's to a DC mechanism. I could fit a decoder inside, but this one is mostly just a shelf queen loco because it is not NP. it's a C.& N.W. loco to try and get my Motive Power certificate. I just might have to prove it works.
I needed to print decals, so rather than waste a whole sheet for 1 car, I put lots of other stuff on the decal sheet. So as you can see I painted the Boxcab black, and since this car was the last to have those style exhaust stacks I am lettering it for C.& N.W. R.R. I needed to mount the couplers, and they needed severe cutting down to fit. As lone as the spring can push the coupler halves around unrestricted, this works just fine. I have cut the back half off lots of coupler boxes with great success when I needed the space: I had to cut some brass strips to fit in the roof for extra car weight because being made from Polybak, this shell don't weigh enough: After gluing in the brass weights, I used clear parts cement to glue in the window glazing for all 14 windows: And I took it to my Lester module for photo's and a quick propulsion test: I like the looks of it overall, and after painting, the finish is much less rough than when it was primed only: OK, So here's the proof:
Excellent work on the box cab. From what I have followed on all your posts, I’m very confident that you will score a merit award for this model! I’m impressed what you were able to create!
Rob, Excellent modeling as usual! Nice decals, nice backdrop. I like that the electronics and wiring wizard uses a ordinary battery to test the new loco. Scott
Yeah, I really have to find the time to finish wiring my modules and get track on those last 2 modules so i can run some trains for a change.
very nice work, and especially since it was pretty much all scratch built in such a tiny scale .. i do have a model of the igersoll rand boxcab in HO scale but all i had to do was pay a bit of money for it, it came completely assembled, and even a bit weathered Boxcab 006 by wvgca posted Jun 1, 2021 at 9:23 AM
WOW, unique and amazing in many ways, specifically in Z-scale ta’ boot! Agreeing as well, this is “merit award” material.
That turned out just great! I love the rivets being more to scale and the dry brushing on the trucks. It has just the right amount of weathering. The still photo of it by the (water?) tower is brilliant. Thank you for sharing and man, that was quick!
I just finished writing up my NMRA judging forms for it. I'm taking it in along with last year's NP Mikado and a couple other locomotives to be judged this Saturday.
