My oo guage custom engins

For a few years now I've been wanting to make my own models of Thomas characters in oo scale, and in December I finally began, but before I start I would like to mention that these models are my own take on these engins and that I'm going to delay the 'Big project' a few years so that I don't rush it and so I can use my own custom models. now let's begin

TOBY

I never thought that Toby would be the first one that I would make, mainly because I don't have access to a rapid J70, which is what most people use. Initial I wanted to scratch build him, but in the end I decided on something else.

1.The chassis

Like the body I was initially planning to scratch build it but I decided to buy a loco for the chassis ,but this wasn't easy. Toby has a small 0-6-0 chassis. In terms of older British locos the closes thing would be the terrier chassis but is seams to be too big and I also hate the motor, and on top of this I couldn't find one for a good price. In the end I decided to look for a European Ho loco for the chassis and that was much easier.
In the show toby's chassis was made using a marklin Guage 1 BR 80, which look like this:



conveniently, marklin makes a BR 80 in Ho scale, but it's got an AC motor and it's also 3 rail, while I could convert it, I don't want to do that now. Thankfully I was able to get a Fleischmann Br 89 which is very similar. When I got it It was modified, by removing the front light, piston rods and other small things




As you can probably tell the chassis was MUCH TOO LONG so I cut it down







Give that I wanted to keep the red wheels an chassis I touched up the scratches



And that's where the chassis is today, unfortunately it's still to long but I'm not cutting it down anymore.



2.the body

In the end I decide to 3D print the body but First I need to design the body, as the chassis is larger than it should be and that's what I've been working on recently:




I currently don't have a 3D printer, but I can still detail the cowcatcher up a bit, but I won't be designing the body until I can confirm the the cowcatcher fits arrowed the chassis . 




That's all for now! I hope someone finds this interesting