Not Viper related but my winter project is nearly finished

[viper paul]

[Viper]

looks like hours of fun, you just need the chrome lettering to complete...im waiting

Edited by Viper on Saturday 23 May 17:44

[Dr-Bob]

Looks good mate.....

[Phoenix Viper]

Ooooooooooooooo that's nice who's been a busy boy then.

[fatboy18]

What scale is that Paul? My son has G scale running around his bedroom about 1ft below the ceiling! I reckon that your train would bring down my ceiling That looks fab, you cant beat a choo choo

[viper paul]

The loco is 5" and American modeled on an EMD F7 Passenger Loco from the Santa Fe in 'Warbonnet' paint, the company sponsored many Indian tribes.

So far weighs in excess of 150 lbs, has full sound system recorded from the oiginal and uses 2 x 12 volt batteries.

Edited by viper paul on Saturday 23 May 21:56

[neilsfishing]

boys and there toys looks good

[Joelism]

Very nice indeed

[VENOM500]

How many hours have gone into it Paul? The paint finish looks great, does it have any interior/engine detail? Looks like a labour of love Paul....very nice.

[RT/10Dave]

That looks great Paul! Is it a kit you bought or something you have been building from scratch?
Extremely impressive either way!

[viper paul]

It is a kit of sorts but you need quite a fair bit of skill marking out drilling tapping and making loads of mods to suit your model mine has twin headlights as a passenger single headlights were for freight locos, I can take no credit for the paint I had it done professionally, I can paint like that I have over 100k's worth of HO American trains and have won prizes for scratchbuilding and painting but had never tackled something this big and its the paint that make the finished item.

There is no interior detail, I may build some later but it is pretty full with speakers for the sound system, amp, twin tone car horns and electronic control circuits

[RT/10Dave]

Nicely done mate! I will have to make a trip up to see this at some point, looks very interesting!

[VENOM500]

Interesting item Paul, thanks for sharing it with us!

[Dr-Bob]

Whats wrong with Yellow....

Union Pacific

[viper paul]

From memory EMD SD80 MAC sign of the times UP are scrapping them but a lot of the loco's like mine were rebuilt and are still running from the 40's and 50's.

Up also did not have as nice a scheme as everything was yellow and grey no special passenger colours.

[Dr-Bob]

Paul
You need to speak to Skeeter there is a guy in his town that bought an old Loco and some diss used track.... So the Loco is parked in his back garden.. Looked cool....