Union Pacific BIG BOY 4-8-8-4 1/25 Scale (Engine)

[hmas]

Air dave
yours is H0 scale 1/87 & just a plastic shell, the $6K one is 1/25 scale electric & all the bells & whistles, & can pull 20+ wagons.
I think I said a temp closing until Kooklik returns

[airdave]

Its "airdave" ...no space.

And its not just plastic...it comes with a nifty cardboard box too!
Made from real card board.
Keep that in mind...board of card.

okay...temporarily why?
If Kooklik returns, and his thread is closed, I would hate for him to get the wrong impression and not ask why.
The language issue might be a factor.

[USA Supersonic]

I too would like to know why. Could it be the poster is becoming annoyed at the number of inquiries?

[Don Boose]

I hate the idea of closing threads unless they become clogged with controversy and invective unrelated to paper modelling. Threads like this one are historical treasure troves of enduring value.

We have had many cases of long-fallow threads coming to life. I have some projects that have been stalled for years that I have good intentions of finishing.

Don

[hmas]

Originally Posted by USA Supersonic

Could it be the poster is becoming annoyed at the number of inquiries?

No, why do you need to have it explained to you.

[hmas]

Originally Posted by Don Boose

I hate the idea of closing threads unless they become clogged with controversy and invective unrelated to paper modelling.
Threads like this one are historical treasure troves of enduring value.

The thread will still be hear to be read.
But we will not have newbies etc or those who cannot comprehend the last post by Kooklik at 3+ yrs ago but keep asking where is it.


We have had many cases of long-fallow threads coming to life. I have some projects that have been stalled for years that I have good intentions of finishing.
Don

When & if Kooklik suddenly reappears the mods can unlock the thread without another 200 posts asking why!

[airdave]

Well, you just helped add eight more posts to this thread!
LOL
Nine now!
...
When Koolik returns...a light doesn't go on in someone's office.
The thread doesn't automatically unlock.
So, Koolik, with his weak English, would find his long lost thread locked...dead...

and he might assume that we have lost interest.
And he might go away again!

If the thread was sufficiently off topic, it could be pruned.
Or a new thread can easily be started.
I don't think its a big deal.

Or, like many other very long threads here, it could be continued regardless of the all the extra (uneccesary) posts.

But, are they really uneccesary posts?
Many people post on forums just for the attention and social interraction.
Many artists and designers show their work because they too crave the attention.
And having hundreds of posts asking where you are, is a LOT of positive attention!
...
I guaranty, if he ever comes back and restarts this thread, he will receive endless posts celebrating his return!
Maybe we should just keep the thread locked so that doesn't happen either?
lol


I know...lets just do our best to keep this thread on topic.
I think thats the best thing we can do.
So, heres a whole yard full of Big Boys I spotted last week.

[Hathaway Veteran]

Has anyone tried to use Google to translate English to Thai (the most common dialect I assume?) Might help?

[John Statue]

Originally Posted by kooklik

Hello all
I finished the test build of Main Drive Wheel. It works well. There was some gap between surface and surface by cutting and bending errors. I repaired by adding big volume of glue to those gaps. And removed the exceed volume by a cotton bud. Those gaps were completely removed.

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I make truck models of wood. See my site. johnstatue-pictures.com and look at the tab " modelbouw". Becourse i am bussy at this time toe transfer a papercraft modelbus into a wood version, i look for the patterns of the Union Pacific Big Boy. I heve seen your amazing work to make this loc in to a paper model. do you know where i can find or buy the patterns to build this Big Boy into a wood model? Thank you verry much with greatings from the Netherlands.

[airdave]

Waay baaack...when the Big Boy was first started,
I was working on Kooklik's U-Boats
and I was tasked by Kooklik to do the colouring on the Big Boy Tender.

The Tender had already been completed, before the Engine,
and the test build was finished...although hand painted.
The model needed colouring before it could be released.

At the time, I felt it was going to be too big of a project for me
(I had other things on the go)
so Kooklik and I put the project aside since he was now busy working on the Engine.

Anyway, as many of you know, its been a long term project for Kooklik
and its been a very long time since his last update.

I was chatting with him, making sure all was well in his life, and he has passed along this message:

"That's good to hear that you were fine and the forums was asking about me.
I'm now focusing on exercise and health care after I missed for many year.
Please tell the forum I missed them all.
I will return to Big Boy someday in the future."

So, good and bad news in many ways.
Hopefully that satisfies your curiosity.

Be well Kooklik!