4-6-2 wheel arrangement in O tinplate?

I've been following the progress on this guy's project. https://ogrforum.com/...97#72805549320362897 Also this one, too. https://ogrforum.com/...lt-265e-strectch-job

this guy? 

so far, I've only done one tinplate engine, a 259E I rebuilt from a shell.I was planning on doing a six drivered motor for it, but found a good 1684 motor at a show for $10 I couldn't pass up. I've done several die cast Pre and Postwar steamers. Including a 4-8-4 I made from two junk 1666 Lionel shells. These are fairly easy to make what you want, pick up some junkers and have at it!

I'm the one doing the 265E stretch job, I've stalled a bit but here are some pics  and you can check the link too.

For what it is worth, there is a company in Europe that is making larger wheel arrangement tinplate, Merkur.  I really like some of the stuff they make too.

https://www.blik-en-speelgoed....auge-0-model-trains/

A Merkur loco

Flyer has some stuff that you are looking for in their gilbert prewar range.  There is a 1681 that is called hudson, but is actually a 4-6-2.

1689 with a six drivered motor and 2037 rear truck for the pilot.

here are some of my projects

4-8-4 from two 1666 shells

1668E I put together with a four wheel pilot, and a stretched tender

I am thinking something more like the bright colored tinplate like this

or this

Using the red wheel drivers, but ending up with six drivers instead of 4.  Also potentially looking for smaller lead truck wheels to build a 4 wheel lead truck.  Trailing truck could 2 or 4 wheel depending on what looks better with the remaining space.

Preferably this whole miracle makeover would happen with needing to stretch the boiler.  Anyway, no concrete plans right now as I already have a pile of projects that aren't finished, but this is what I was thinking about.

Continued comments or suggestions certainly welcome.

Your question made me think of David Argent, who's built some wonderful tinplate creations, including these streamlined 4-6-2s:

http://www.andrewgrantham.co.u...modelled-in-o-gauge/

http://stdgauge.blogspot.ca/20...e-made-tinplate.html

your pics aren't showing.

here's the thing, make what you want. a member here has restored several 259Es, and repainted them in several colorful schemes. Let your imagination be the guide. Pick up some junkers, and have at it! It's easy and fun.

People have been doing the things you are considering for some time...here's one from the September 1937 issue of Model Railroader

I have the book that  Delbert wrote with Louis Hertz and have been wanting to build one or some of those engine's.  The problem is that those darn frames are so stinking expensive I can't justify cutting one up, also buying 10 driver wheels adds up real quick!

that's a nice think about the die cast shells. you can add wheels to the motor frame without cutting up the tinplate frames.

Speaking of customs, I saw this one on ebay, I did not bid on it, but was tempted!  Looks like he started with a 259E and built a pretty neat little switcher.  It's almost worth bidding on just for the tender!

I saw that too Dennis, and had the same thoughts about the tender.

Sometimes I think it would be neat to pick stuff like this up when it appears, you could have a very unique collection of stuff after awhile.  Over the years I've see so many things like this that don't get much attention, but to me they have a "neatness" to them that you couldn't get anywhere else.

exactly. Just like the stuff that you, I and others here are making. I hope someday some one will see our stuff and think they are neat, and creative,