DalaGStanator's Customs, Mods and Experiments

Got round to start making some sort of chassis for the NG engines, naturally starting with Rusty. It was made in much the same way as the ones on the car bodies, with paper bearings on the very bottom. The wheels are four (very) old plastic beads from an unknown source that I repainted black, which I most likely won't have enough of for making good numbers of rolling stock. He rolls better than he did with wick tabs and clay and is light enough to be pushed by the Junior Train loco on various surfaces, but not on the track system. He won't have a coupling until all the others will have their own chassis. For the steam engines, I'll have to find a similar wheel material in a somewhat bigger diameter, with the rear drivers having holes for coupling rods. The (fake) trailing wheels on Skarloey and Peter Sam could be replaced with the type used for Rusty. If I had wheels from Thomas MINIS, they would've been the exact type I need for the steam drivers.



The first engines to get printed nameplates and numbers were Rheneas and Duncan. However, that was only because theirs were printed correctly while those of the other four were "wiped out" on paper. Once I'll get new colour ink, I'll print them out and apply them the same way. I'm a bit surprised they turned out perfectly readable in such a small scale, but they're (unsurprisingly) much clearer than their handwritten predecessors. Those were painted on with a pen and were always prone to smearing off, which gave me another good reason to do it besides the inverted colours.