First photo post - we hope - Lionel Flathead Vulcan

very nice! how about some details on what you used and how you built it?

thanks

It was a train show $10.00 purchase. The Lionel Vulcan is not a bad model, just

a bit big/tall. The width is actually fine for a standard gauge critter.

This is the modern, can-motor-truck version that actually runs better than

it should - which is another way of saying "runs OK".

Anyway, I cut the cab out of the body, shortened it about 5/8" (along with the stack)

and glued everything back together. Carefully. I retained the top stack detail, drilled it

out, and re-glued it to the shortened stack. I used some styrene and Bondo filler, and

screwed the body back on. Some filing and cutting (and cussing) and it sat back down.

I painted it and the "truck" with two different auto primer colors, found some stripes

in my decal junk box - from an HO switcher set - and there you go. 

Hey!! Who you calling Flathead?

Very nice job! Nice picture too.

Very nicely done!

--Greg

I agree, very nicely done. Nice composition on the photo as well. I love those Lionel yellow floodlight towers.

Yeah...It is very obvious that Vulcan's head is not flat...maybe a little "sparse" but certainly not flat!!... (Fred..I had to have a little fun with your comment!)

Anyway....nice job.  A few details on how you did this would be greatly appreciated...

Alan

I love bashed Locos.

Don't suppose you have a prototype photo for comparison? 

Great job, but what we REALLY need to see is that 'bashed NYC articulated 

No problem, Alan. I'm not at all sensitive about it.

I don't know how close this is to what you have created with the Vulcan but I sure would like to model this little MKT switcher.  They state it is a GE 600hp 70 ton diesel switcher.  The photo was taken around 1950.

 Steve, Lady and Tex

Very nice.

Glad some of you liked the Vulcan; I have no prototype photo at hand, but it simply

approximates some low-topped critters that have been built by various companies

over the years. There is a shorty GE (I think) critter in Mobile at a railcar repair

company called FSI - I just saw it today, but no camera. 

The photos of the Bashed NYC 0-8-8-0 will appear, once I take them. I've got some odd

stuff, and I'll try to share some of it. The rough techniques I used on the Vulcan I've

mentioned above.

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BTW, saw the NS Heritage Erie SD70 in Mobile today; the NYC SD70 was in town a couple of months ago. 

Great job!