Mountain Goats Narrow Gauge Delights.

[Mountain Goat]

I thought I would turn my attention to the wheels as I want to make them look a little more diesel shunterish, so I pushed modelling clay into the wheels and reamed out some holes which did not exactly go where I intended but it worked, and I carefully applied superglue to lock in the new design.

[Walkingthedog]

Looks alright to me MG.

[Mountain Goat]

Thanks Walkingthedog. I have given it a first coat of paint to see if I liked the colour. The cab is balanced on the body and the body is balancing on the chassis to take the photograph. More painting will come and I have yet to build up some bufferbeams and other details.

[Mountain Goat]

Still doing more to it and there is more yet to do, but I thought I would share a picture of the size difference of the shortened chassis by showing this little diesel next to another loco. (The diesel shunter will look nicer when I do more to it).





The loco on the left was once on a standard Hornby "Smokey Joe" type chassis, but has since had a much modified Triang chassis using Hornby chassis parts, but it does give an idea of size.

I used to see a little diesel shunting in my youth at a wagon repair works, though it was standard gauge and had a more modern cab, and was yellow. It brings back memories!

[Mountain Goat]

Ok. So where did we leave off last time? Well. After doing a fair bit of less noticable alterations and improvements inside the cab area and also finding a means to secure the chassis to the body (If I have not mentioned this earlier), How about some bufferbeams before I turn back to adding more cab detail and also more below footplate detail etc.







I hope the last photo is visible as it has come from cropping another picture (As the loco was in the background) for now until I do more and will take a better picture. The cab is not glued down to the footplate as yet as I would like to add a little detail.

I also have plans for this little loco to experiment with an improved coupling which will couple to drop loops as well as other types of coupling such as tension lock, and I thought this little loco would be the ideal loco to try out my ideas on. We shall see how things turn out.