How to Build an Intermediate HO Scale Steam Engine Kit: Part 4 - Boiler, Trucks & Basic Details

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We've built a more basic kit with the Bowser "Old Lady" 2-8-0, now let's move onto an intermediate level kit! In this video series, I'll be building a Bowser PRR M1 4-8-2! More detailed assembly methods will be used, more details will be added, and I'll be doing my best to show you good processes for each step along the way. And with this and other upcoming projects which I'm finding have various size nuts included, it looks like I'll be having to actually get myself some small nut drivers.
This was one of Bowser's later kits. It features one of their better quality mechanisms as well as minimal cast on details, allowing high quality separate parts to be more easily added for a near brass-level finished model.

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@hamiltonsullivan6563 Год назад

Been waiting for the next update! Sick vid man

@kge420 Год назад

I’ve built both an E-6 and a K-4 and was very happy with my work as both of them ran and looked nice. Your work makes me look like a hack! I have a G-5 kit and I think I’ll follow your methods when I build it. Thanks for putting this series together. Cheers

@DarthSantaFe Год назад

My first kits turned out pretty good, but definitely can’t compare to what I’m making now since I’ve gotten more experience. We all learn how to do it better as we go, and I hope these videos help with making your kit come together as well as possible!

@elleryparsons2433 8 месяцев назад

I Just Might Get Me Those engines.

@trainskitsetc Год назад

Good stuff, it's looking very nice

@Uptownloki47 Год назад

Great video! I'm starting on a N scale GHQ Ms-4 conversion kit for a Kato USRA 2-8-2.

@kensbackshop6399 Год назад

Very great idea with the super glue and baking soda ,,,,,gotta try that

@jefflynnalex Год назад

Bowser got the idea for the formed brass walk ways from Penn Line. That was how PL designed their 2-8-0 and 4-4-2 locomotives (which used the same boiler). Great video series! You are building my favorite locomotive!

@DarthSantaFe Год назад

Thanks! Penn Line had a lot of good ideas in their kits, even going down to the cheapest models. My lead D1 Midget can probably outpull a plastic SD40. :D

@bluebear6570 Год назад

I wish these kits were still available!

@blairmielnik8228 Год назад

Really they are- you just have to get them on ebay, Bowser already made as many as the world should ever need. Most are not assembled. Sometimes they sell for more- but with inflation considered they are actually a better now than they ever were.

@maciekkra539 Год назад

37:15 one mistake you've made, the hand rails on Pennsy steam are hollow inside and are used as a conduit for electrical wires for lighting and actually to connect electric from the turbo also. You should have at least run them to touch the cab. On some locomotive pictures you can see the electrical wire running up from the handrail in front of the cab.

@DarthSantaFe Год назад

Thanks for the tip! After checking through prototype photos, I think I have an idea of what to do about that once I get to super detailing.

@elleryparsons2433 8 месяцев назад

I’m sure they Also shape For A&SF.

@DarthSantaFe 8 месяцев назад

I have seen at least a couple ATSF designs. DJH made some high-end ATSF kits back in the 80’s.

@terryboner2346 Год назад

It's to bad that bowser destroyed all of the molds for these great models, they were great running too.

@michaelg8936 Год назад

What grit of sandpaper did you use on the superglue? Also, are all of their metal kits made of white metal?

@DarthSantaFe Год назад

I used 600 grit automotive sandpaper. Bowser's kits are almost all zinc diecast with the only exception being the original lost wax cast brass 4-8-2. They rarely use white metal, and it's only for smaller parts when they do use it.

@michaelg8936 Год назад

@@DarthSantaFe Thanks.

@elleryparsons2433 8 месяцев назад

A T& SF.

@kge420 Год назад

@46:50 Arbor Models had tooling?

@DarthSantaFe Год назад

Yes, it was made by a caveman clubbing a piece of wax into a mold.

@elleryparsons2433 8 месяцев назад

Do Those Come Out I Soo Line And C&NW?

@DarthSantaFe 8 месяцев назад

Not that I’ve seen, but I think some of the more generic models from Mantua/Tyco and Varney can be detailed to look “close enough.”