Tuesday, December 29, 2009

A few steamers I am working on now :-)

I just can not get enough PRR steam I want to have them all ,and maybe someday I will.But at the rate I am going I will be long gone before I have them all because kitbashing/building Pennsylvania steam or any steam for that matter is time consuming at best.And if you want Pennsy steam or at least a fleet of steam you are going to have to spend some time "Pennsying them up" or building them from sratch.
I love the challange of seeing how close I can get to real thing I am no rivet counter but I like to be as accurate as I can be.
So here are a few of my in progress builds two l1's, two I1sa's and at the moment a lone N2sa.I am planning on building another N2sa because they almost always worked in pairs pulling coal drags out of Erie.So I am going to see how this first one comes out then work on another.

PRR N2sa scratch built pilot

Getting there on the N scale pennsylvania N2sa

My two I1sa's in progress thanks to Max Magliaro and the Zen master publication's for the insperation to give this a try

Here is onea post war L1 with Kato GS4 single slider valve gear to give it more of a PRR look and feel

Here is both Pennsy L1s this early on they have progressed a bit farther since this photo I guess I will just have to get out the camers and take a few more pics