N scale models. Interested? - Page 7

**Sygrod** · #61 10-29-2014, 06:59 PM

I decided to attack the HH600, as it is the first in the series. I have most of the frame and cab done. It is a lot of fiddly work, a pixel at a time in some cases, but it is coming along. Thankfully, most of the work can be ported from the HH600 to the HH660 , HH900 and the HH1000. They were exactly the same size.

**Sygrod** · #62 10-30-2014, 04:55 AM

One old forelorn example of the HH600

**flightsimmer2012** · #63 10-30-2014, 09:51 AM

the HH600 would look cool wearing the old atlantic coast line purple with white pin stripes, or A.T.S.F "zebra"

**Sygrod** · #64 10-30-2014, 11:29 AM

Duly noted. I have to finish the actual model design before I start painting it. But yes, there are some really nice schemes even on these early beasts. They worked side by side with a multitude of steam locomotives, most of which were black. The earliest HH600s were also a variety of black with sparse mostly white lines.

**rbeach84** · #65 10-30-2014, 12:24 PM

Very cool stuff, Sygrod! It seems that it wouldn't be too far to adapt these to running chassis & practical trucks... and with much more flexibility than building and painting standard plastic shells. Or am I stating the obvious?

Regards,
Robert

**Sygrod** · #66 10-30-2014, 02:05 PM

That was left as a possibility very early on. Since the trucks are incredibly fiddly in card, I wanted to make it possible to at least allow for realistic plastic trucks, and then box cars, gondolas, etc could be left on sidings or even pulled around by less picky operators.

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Originally Posted by rbeach84

Very cool stuff, Sygrod! It seems that it wouldn't be too far to adapt these to running chassis & practical trucks... and with much more flexibility than building and painting standard plastic shells. Or am I stating the obvious?

Regards,
Robert

**rbeach84** · #67 10-31-2014, 11:53 AM

I've noticed at our local 'train stop' hobby shop that there are always boxes of somewhat derelict rolling stock (as in 'second hand') on sale. Recovery of those 'flats' and their trucks as mounts for new paper shells would seem a nice way to keep things in service. Plus, a long train of lighter paper cars would seem to be less work for the loco to pull.

Just brainstorming...
R/ Robert

**Sygrod** · #68 11-10-2014, 05:36 PM

Couldn't score or cut a dependable line. Astigmatism. Saw two lines. Went to Optometrist and will have proper "reading" glasses in about a week. Work will resume then.

**Sygrod** · #69 01-25-2015, 01:11 PM

Did anyone manage to build any of the free models I gave out?

**sgoti** · #70 01-25-2015, 10:36 PM

Hey, Sygrod!

I was actually thinking about these the other day.

Sorry, I haven't had a chance yet, my free time vs priorities ratio keeps getting skewed the wrong way.