Here's my most radical kitbash idea ever, in response to Mark Watson's request: the Time Machine from Back to the Future III. If the new Bachmann N scale 4-6-0 was good for anything, It would probably be this!!! And I actually think I want to give this a try!:tb-biggrin: Whaddya think?
I think your crazy. I also fully expect it to be done. However, I'd encourage starting with a whole new tender, maybe using the chassis from the old one. A Vandy tender would be a better staring point though. (backwards to original orientation)
Hey seriously, Do you need any detailed blueprints/drawings? I might know some people who might know some people who might know some people at Universal who might be able to have access to the production drawings used in the movie.
So if I buy one of these and get it up to 88 scale mph on my layout, if it suddenly vanishes, how do I get it back?
If they do, I need one for 1225, they modeled one into the Polar Express movie. By the way, on your artist's rendering, it would look like you just did a larger single stack. It looks like on the actual pic, they did a twin smokestack; one sticking out of the other at an angle.
I know that there are 2 stacks--made in the style of those on a riverboat--side by side. The picture angle of the base model I used just made it look like 1 stack. BTW I've got some bad news. I've run out of funding for my modeling for a while, so the rest of 2010 will be devoted to finishing the town of Jacumba (with a hotel, cafe, and gas station) on my SD&AE n scale layout and an SD&AE Miller Creek diorama I started last month with my large stock of styrene, wood, foam, and scenery supplies that ousted my last dollars. I also desperately need some PFE reefers and need to make some SD&AE cabooses and harriman combines, so it may be a while before the Time Machine graces n scale rails.:tb-frown:
Marty... You're Not Thinking Fourth Dimensionally! Hopefully, if your layout is in the same place as it was in the year it went back, It will end up in the same place on the layout, just in the past (or future). If the layout was moved or doesn't exist in the future or past, then it'll do the same thing that Central Pacific #131 did over the incomplete bridge. :tb-biggrin:
Hmm..So I can build every train I'll ever have,and be able to send them back to when I was twelve,as long as I remember where my RR was then,and duplicate it??
Great Scott!!! That could create a time paradox, the results of which could cause a chain reaction that would unravel the very fabric of the space time continuum, and destroy the entire universe!
I just hope it doesn't fly off the layout and break through the 4th wall!! (get it?) :tb-tongue: Seriously though, if anyone can do it, it will be you!!! (And one for me too please!)
You monitor the forum here for a startled report from someone saying it suddenly appeared on their layout... :tb-wacky: Boxcab E50
