I was curious if any one has changed the wheel arrangement on the lionchief train set engines, like the 2-4-2 to a 4-4-2, or the 0-8-0 to a 2-8-0 or 2-8-2.
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Yeah, I have bashed a couple of the Lionchief Plus steamers anyway. I am at work and have only this picture I can find.
That below was an LC+ Hudson (you can tell by the shape of the boiler top right ahead of the cab and the six-axle tender it has. I converted it to something rather close to a scale model of the ATSF Prairie 1800 class very late in their careers (the dang things served for decades and went through many changes - this shows them oil burning 1940s+). To make the change I switched out both front and rear trucks to single axles, cut/ground off the sand domes and installed new, older style ones as you can see, cut the headlight off and the box atop the front of the boiler and relocated the headlight atop the boiler front, cut the roof off the cab and extended the cab roof up about a foot, and did significant surgery and revision on the tender, converting it to oil. This shows it in glossy paint right after all the work was done (glossy shows flaws in the finish/gap filling better than flat). Eventually I painted in flat black and labeled it ATSF 1819.
Edit: I found a video I posted back then of my completed model pulling a long train if you want to see it in action.
https://ogrforum.com/t...43#33387772628883843
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I remember reading the original thread with your review and the fallowing kitbash when looking into Lionchief earlier this year.
Made me wonder if they did not use Lionel's post war version described as Santa Fe Hudson as the base model from what little I have read, from it being smaller and lighter than the NYC Hudson.
Thank you. for then and now
I have wondered about changing my 2-4-2 to a 4-4-2 since I think the mountings are compatible for the front truck.
Where did you get the new trucks?
