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Need inspiration to help me finish a model...

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I started this two years ago, and while it's been to a few local LUG shows, it isn't really finished. Anyone want to see it completed?  Anyone know what it is?

 

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4 hours ago, bonox said:

right field, wrong manufacturer. 

 

 

Considering it was a quick glance and not a close study the head post are more ge GEVO-12 as to what loco sorry I only did engines not rolling stock..

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On 6/12/2020 at 6:18 AM, bonox said:

Anyone want to see it completed?  Anyone know what it is?

I do :wink:
What do you ask, what's missing or ... I mean what it is is pretty clear, right. 

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11 hours ago, neonic said:

I do :wink:
What do you ask, what's missing or ... I mean what it is is pretty clear, right. 

Missing a lot of greebling and signwriting.

The original question was based on the first image only. For Bluehose, it's a locomotive. I do have two iron ore wagons to go with it that together make a train.

 

Thanks aeh5040 - i thought this fit the model team concept and it's about 30% technic by weight and is also self powered, albeit slowly, with twelve XL motors. - perhaps it should go into the scale model sub-forum instead. I was really just wondering about whether there was enough interest to justify me writing up a build history about it. Doesn't look like it.

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5 hours ago, bonox said:

Missing a lot of greebling and signwriting

Greebling, another new word to me (looked for it on Google:wink:)
So I was thinking right. I'm not really familiar with trains and stuff but it looks great and the only thing I was thinking of some cables to the sparkplugs? or some other piping / tubing.
For the rest it looks great, especially the top of the motor looks impressive.

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It's clear that it's massive. I'm assuming you lost count of parts long ago, but how heavy is it? 

12* XL motors! Bet that takes a few battery boxes. I'd like to see it move.

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Grey - it's about 15,000 according to the digital model, but it's missing a lot of detail, so probably closer to 30,000 all up

loco17.jpg

plus another 5,000 for a wagon

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and the little diorama is another 3 or 4 thousand

 

amorti - The loco comes to about 20 kilograms. Each bogie has six motors powering a wheel each, and the whole lot is controlled by this dude

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