Okay...I'm that guy! Mud is right, ucwpn is my Thomas the Train hero hands down and Sunhunter was very kind to me when I asked him some PG pricing questions. And no I'm not into cloning any flip face anything. Mechanically too challenging. What I would really like to create is a Powerful Gordon Steam along. Now that would be a great train.
Thank you Mud for calling me in person. We got to know one another and I think more than one beer is in order. Guys I want you to know that I take great pride in the trains I create. It took alot of watching ucwpn and the rest of you to get to a level to make a good product. Thank you sharing your knowledge.
I didn't just add the faces to new trains. Although that would have been easier, I made the train as close to the real train as possible. I had to not just make a mold for the face, I had to create molds that could stand up 700 degrees f. There are two main body weights that are custom fitted for the location the are in. There's one in the water tank area that weighs 30.99g and another in the smoke box area that weighs 16.68 g. I made high temperature molds and poured 700 deg molten lead into them to make those weights. I looked all over the united states to find cold roll steal to make the other weights and couldn't find them because the original PG's were made in mm and not standard. There's only one vender in the US who sales mm , it took a lot time sreaching to find him. Oh try to paint two tiny eyes balls perfectly round, it not easy. I added a Tamiya Power Dash motor to give it the extra speed and power you would expect for PG. Guess who gave me that idea? I had to add 80.88 g of measured and hand cut weights to each train. My train is an exact copy of the 200-2002 PG and on the inside of the train I signed, dated and serialized each one.
I read what ya'll wrote about me and I thank you for the kind words you said. And yes to have ucwpn talk about Mike's PG clone unboxing one day would be great! It would put me on cloud nine. Even if he did it in fast mode :^) tttn
Thank you Mud for calling me in person. We got to know one another and I think more than one beer is in order. Guys I want you to know that I take great pride in the trains I create. It took alot of watching ucwpn and the rest of you to get to a level to make a good product. Thank you sharing your knowledge.
I didn't just add the faces to new trains. Although that would have been easier, I made the train as close to the real train as possible. I had to not just make a mold for the face, I had to create molds that could stand up 700 degrees f. There are two main body weights that are custom fitted for the location the are in. There's one in the water tank area that weighs 30.99g and another in the smoke box area that weighs 16.68 g. I made high temperature molds and poured 700 deg molten lead into them to make those weights. I looked all over the united states to find cold roll steal to make the other weights and couldn't find them because the original PG's were made in mm and not standard. There's only one vender in the US who sales mm , it took a lot time sreaching to find him. Oh try to paint two tiny eyes balls perfectly round, it not easy. I added a Tamiya Power Dash motor to give it the extra speed and power you would expect for PG. Guess who gave me that idea? I had to add 80.88 g of measured and hand cut weights to each train. My train is an exact copy of the 200-2002 PG and on the inside of the train I signed, dated and serialized each one.
I read what ya'll wrote about me and I thank you for the kind words you said. And yes to have ucwpn talk about Mike's PG clone unboxing one day would be great! It would put me on cloud nine. Even if he did it in fast mode :^) tttn
Mike Arnett Customthomas
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