Okay, so I'll cut to the chase, latley I've been really excited about a locomotive I bought on eBay and decided to repaint and create decals for. It was a Mantua (Tyco) 4-6-0 ten wheeler. Very old, I know, but I like them that way. I realize newer engines are better in general but older ones can be made to run amazingly with the right touch. Anyways anyone seen Back to the Future part III? Greatest movie ever I know, but anyone remember the train scene? Ok enough with the questions. The locomotive used in the movie was Sierra Railway's ten wheeler, also known as the "movie star" locomotive. It was repainted as the No. 131 for the movie, and I thought, I've always wanted a model set of the train from the movie and the Delorean outfitted with railroad wheels that it pushes. How fun would that be to reenact the scene on your layout or parade the train around the town on your layout with the Delorean on a flat bed? So I set out to do this and make it happen. Now the locomotive I used was in OO scale and wasn't the most detailed thing ever created, but I love it to death. Here's some photos of the finished product.
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And I started with the locomotive like this:
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I plan to eventually buy a cheap bachmann spectrum model of one of their ten wheelers (which are nothing like the rogers built 1890's ones) and modify it to death to get the desired effect.
I also have several of the Mantua ten wheelers, about 6 to be exact, and 3 of them are the No. 131 and the others are either the original model, the spirit of 73 color scheme, or some other random paint scheme.
I want to take one of the No. 131's I have and some how convert it to DCC and put in a sound decoder and magically find a way to install a smoke unit as well, so expect some questions on what type of motor to use when I remoter it soon. I'll probably ask in the DCC section just to be safe.
I actually sold one of my model No. 131s and a Delorean that went with it on eBay lately and it went well, around $200 for my first version and all it's errors, so the next I have water slide decals coming in soon I ordered and I plan to air brush it and weather it, and add more detail to the loco so it should go for more. Contact me if your interested and I could sell cheap, but I'm not here to to business, just outreaching to fellow Back to the Future Fans.
Here's the cheesiest reenactment using my model you'll ever see, but it gets the point across, just a point made using spare track and filmed on mt back porch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zO9C2kyFrs
And I started with the locomotive like this:
I plan to eventually buy a cheap bachmann spectrum model of one of their ten wheelers (which are nothing like the rogers built 1890's ones) and modify it to death to get the desired effect.
I also have several of the Mantua ten wheelers, about 6 to be exact, and 3 of them are the No. 131 and the others are either the original model, the spirit of 73 color scheme, or some other random paint scheme.
I want to take one of the No. 131's I have and some how convert it to DCC and put in a sound decoder and magically find a way to install a smoke unit as well, so expect some questions on what type of motor to use when I remoter it soon. I'll probably ask in the DCC section just to be safe.
I actually sold one of my model No. 131s and a Delorean that went with it on eBay lately and it went well, around $200 for my first version and all it's errors, so the next I have water slide decals coming in soon I ordered and I plan to air brush it and weather it, and add more detail to the loco so it should go for more. Contact me if your interested and I could sell cheap, but I'm not here to to business, just outreaching to fellow Back to the Future Fans.
Here's the cheesiest reenactment using my model you'll ever see, but it gets the point across, just a point made using spare track and filmed on mt back porch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zO9C2kyFrs
