Ucwepn's custom engine shed

[Ucwepn]

Hi guys and gals I will kick things off here.


VR R class custom built from Trackmaster Hank


Trackmaster Dennis custom with painted details and light


Plarail Arthur custom with metal handrails, bachmann OO scale lamp and metal buffers


Trackmaster Dart custom moving rods


Plarail Oliver custom with metal lamp irons and metal handrails


Plarail Duck (reverse switch) and Oliver customs with new funnels


Trackmaster Stephen custom, parts from OO scale Dapol kit


Custom coach for Stephen


Trackmaster Freddie custom with moving rods outside the frame, drilled cab windows and painted details


Trackmaster Jinty 2.0 custom with metal buffers and metal handrails


Trackmaster SR USA class custom with metal handrails and brass smokebox door


Trackmaster 2012 Diesel and Paxton customs with moving rods


Plarail Luke custom with light and new funnel, dropped tanks and painted wheels


1999 TOMY Stepney custom with new funnel, light and painted handrails


Donald and Douglas 2013 from Trackmaster, New funnels, short couplings, painted handrails and black axles


2012 Trackmaster Thomas super detail, White running plate, new funnel, blue axles, silver rods


My 4.5v TOMY Gordon transformed with metal handrails, white running plate, black underframe, blue axles, silver rods, working headlamp and metal lamp irons.

Same Oliver but green wheels now. Might re-do them soon

2012 Trackmaster James and 2009 Trackmaster Edward customs, metal hand rails, new funnels, painted details.

HiT Trackmaster Emily custom, more to do on this one. Going to change the front wheels for 4 smaller ones.


Trackmaster "working hard" faces 2014 fitted to my custom Thomas and Diesel


Plarail Derek custom made from a DD51 with wooden railway Derek face


Trackmaster Duncan custom, new funnel, rear cab windows, metal buffers and painted details


Trackmaster Rosie custom, this later version lacked the detail of the earlier TM and plarail versions, I added them and a new funnel, still a WIP


Some of my custom trains at the shed


Custom 2013 Trackmaster Percy, new funnel, white running plate, black underframe, drilled cab windows and painted details.


Custom 2012 Trackmaster Thomas with step up voltage converter powering a single LED lamp from 1.5v.


2014 Trackmaster "working hard" faceplates put to good use.


Trackmaster 2012 Thomas converted to hired loco ucwepn first use of the airbrush for this one.

[Ucwepn]

updated 1st post with Stepney, Donald & Douglas

[Super]

Love to look at all your mods Ucwepn. You have so many, you have great ideas. How is the black paint holding up on all your steam mods? Have you tried different brands to see which works best? Its funny, I get ideas on who to modify and I think they are my own until I look at your pictures and videos and see that you have already done one

[Ucwepn]

Thanks mate! yes I had allot of ideas some are ridiculous like a Garrett and Triang shell conversions but the idea well is drying up, its getting hard to find new and exciting mods. But the quest continues hehe! The black paint is holding up well, on the earlier spray painted ones the paint is getting thin on the sides of the wheels where they rub the track, even with clear coat. The Humbrol brush painting is much more durable.

[Ucwepn]

Updated first post with super detail 2012 Trackmaster Thomas

[Super]

I like the white deck on Thomas, did you paint it yourself? And I like the funnels you add to your steam engines. Do you create them or are they HO parts? I really like the headlight on Luke, is it an LED? And those wheels look great of what I can see. Are they black but painted silver on the outer ring? What does "dropped tank" mean?

[Ucwepn]

Hi I make the funnels myself from brass tube, Thomas' running plate I painted white, Luke has a conventional bulb and the wheels started grey i just painted the centers black. Well I felt the tank (water tank, it is a tank engine hehe ) sat too high so i trimmed the bottom of the tank down so it would sit a few millimeters lower in the chassis and give the loco a more low profile look as the battery compartment is on under side I was able to do this.

[Super]

Awesome funnels, what do you use besides brass tubing to give them that detailed look at the top?

Thanks for the new YouTube video "The Customs of Ucwepn #4" Love the details.

Its no secret that I am not up on all the Thomas and Friends characters so I had to look up Oliver and I see that your modifications are true to the real ones from the show. The metal handrails are authentic as are the Lamp Iron and white Running Plate. Even your new funnel seems to be the right height to. Fantastic job. Is Oliver very rare? I can't seem to find much of anything about this motorized one. Not even many pictures. And thanks for the chance to see some of these close up and running. Now I can see what exactly you did when you "dropped the tanks" on Luke.

[Ucwepn]

Hi super the top of the funnel is the original funnel I just sort of Frankenstein them together and paint it black (black hides everything haha). I believe there was a trackmaster oliver from HiT early on but was only a short run, it is available from plarail still but is getting harder to find for a decent price he is a VERY popular character! Interesting fact on oliver his front wheels are unique. Thanks for the kind words on the video it was quite an effort to film it like that with a look at each loco then its run, I filmed all the looks at once then all the runs at once and I had to sort them into order afterwards Can you believe that I dropped Oliver off the table last week and he sustained no damage :O not even those lamp irons were hurt, was very lucky

[Super]

"Hi super the top of the funnel is the original funnel I just sort of Frankenstein them together and paint it black (black hides everything haha)."

Brilliant...I would have never guessed that.

Got lucky on the Oliver fall eh? I seem to remember on one of your videos or two some other falls during filming. We don't have to worry about falls on our layout...LOL which is one advantage of a floor layout but I would much rather have a table top layout because the sight lines and viewing angles are much better. To get some good sight lines on our layout I have to lay down with my head on the floor which isn't very comfortable. Say...how is your Dads set up doing? I would really like to see a video review of his Coca Cola train and his comments of how he did it. Does he have any other mods he worked on?