This channel is quickly becoming my favorite model railroad channel! So often KZitem channels are about the huge builds that fill whole basements but very rarely people are talking about detailed small scale builds. I'm looking forward to more HexTrax! 🙂
@kenhutnik
3 ай бұрын
Great video. I like how you explained the basic steps you needed to create the flat base for each chassis, it will really help new modelers understand and have confidence to try projects. The Kato 109 and 110 are also great drives capable of very small radius, like 2”. Also Tomytec make some great drives, available from Amazon Japan and other online shops.
@Hacksworth_Sidings
3 ай бұрын
The kit you used the boiler from dates back to the late 1950s, debuting in 1959 from Rosebud Kitmaster, made to the slightly larger British “OO” scale (1:76, 4mm=1ft), not “HO” (1:87, 3.5mm=1ft) which everywhere else uses, though the scale doesn’t exactly matter given what you’ve used it for, the model itself is actually still in production today under Dapol’s branding, retailing for around the £8 mark, but the older versions by Kitmaster (1959-62) and Airfix (1962-1980-something) are far sturdier, made from a much stronger plastic, lovely little things and a great introduction to kitbuilding
@edscoble
3 ай бұрын
You can make it look like the logging locomotive (look at Heisler locomotive), and I think that would make it look smarts.
@orangutanlibrarian
3 ай бұрын
Thanks. I was hoping for a video like this. Can you assist do one about your rolling stock?
@GregPotter-ln4pl
3 ай бұрын
I've been hoping you would do this video, just love your trains, thanks for posting 👍😊
@colinjones2974
3 ай бұрын
Fantastic video, it is so good to see us creative people, making interesting models. The kato chassis is great. I model in HoN30 so it is perfect for me.
@drragsdale
3 ай бұрын
I built this little Sn2 train in the early '80s. The locomotive started out as a 2-8-0 HOn3 kit from Round House Model Diecasting. It was cut down to an 0-6-0 and regaged to 9mm. The trucks under the cars are HOn3 trucks regaged to 9mm as N scale looked a bit too small for my tastes. It's been out of service for quite some time but between you and Dave Meek's work, I'm inspired to clean her up and put her back to work.
@drragsdale
3 ай бұрын
Now if I can just figure out how to post a picture here!
@TotoMacFrame
3 ай бұрын
"I don't care about Thomas at all..." Me, a Thomas: 🥺 😅
@TabletopRailroad
3 ай бұрын
Haha, I care about you!
@joshrussell4081
3 ай бұрын
love how industrial this little loco looks i can imagine it trundling along either a narrow mountain pass or through a big expansive desert
@danmcmartin
3 ай бұрын
There's precious little info out there on building On18 locomotives and rolling stock. I have Dave's videos bookmarked and now this one too. Your critter is top notch. Thanks!
@plamoanddiorama8528
3 ай бұрын
I did not know the kato chassis where that cheap. I have some sheets of balsa wood laying around of wich I could also build a fantasy train.
@TabletopRailroad
3 ай бұрын
You should go for it!
@limehuzki
3 ай бұрын
Oh my goodness I've been needing this video so so much, I'm actually trying to design and build a budget locomotive from scratch! And be able to sell it in mass^^
@TabletopRailroad
3 ай бұрын
Nice!
@airworks7809
3 ай бұрын
Hint: plaza japan has the kato parts for a third of the Amazon price. Look also for Tomix, they have nice chea frames. That's what I'm working with now. Also the kato frame is almost the same size as a lego 2x6 block, so you can make a lego locomotive with this
@AtreiusLux
3 ай бұрын
I'd love to use the Bachmann Rheneas chassis for kitbashes but it costs as much as the complete model from Bachmann Spares!
@daniepienaar5287
3 ай бұрын
Hi, please send me the link to that studio that you were talking about in the video. Thanks
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