Snowplows

Miksolo · Miksolo 12-11-2016, 04:06 PM the only furry who cares about plarail

Can someone send me pics of the Trackmaster snowplows from all basic angles (sides, front, back, bottom, top) and maybe some dimensions? I find it difficult to find cheap snowplows for my engines, and have none yet, but was thinking of 3D printing some, but first I would need to create the model, and make sure that they could fit on whatever engine I want to apply the plow to. Does the design of the official one make it so that it works on pretty much any Thomas engine?

sunhuntin · sunhuntin 12-11-2016, 05:36 PM out of the game

mine are inaccessible right now, but i know with the tomy snow plow, it only fit on certain engines that had buffers that stuck out a bit.
this showed me that not every thomas is the same, with many having shorter buffers than the rest.
the reason i found this out is the thomas from the tomy christmas set is a talk n action one, and i wanted to run a standard version to prevent damage.

im not sure if the trackmaster ones are removable as i have never tried.

***Ucwepn*** · ***Ucwepn*** 12-11-2016, 08:14 PM The Fat Controller

The Plarail Thomas plow was a pain to put on yesterday for my tree layout and felt like it was either going to snap the plow or the buffers off of poor old Thomas and it's the one he came with :O. I would go for the later Trackmaster 1 design that comes on snow covered Henry for example, much easier to put on and take off and compatible with any engines with buffers. I'll try and get some photos of the plow later off the loco

Aresedale productions

Cool you should get more snowplow for all the steamies 1-11 counting Emily as well

WoodWheel92 · WoodWheel92 12-12-2016, 02:23 AM Member

Miksolo, I have an old TOMY plow on hand, attached to a holiday-themed Thomas. Best I can do currently is let you know it is just under 4 cm wide, it is just under 2 cm tall at its highest point, and The sides come up to 1 & 1/2 cm.

I can provide pics later, but I hope this info helps.

***Ucwepn*** · ***Ucwepn*** 12-12-2016, 03:46 AM The Fat Controller

(12-12-2016, 01:01 AM)Aresedale productions Wrote: Cool you should get more snowplow for all the steamies 1-11 counting Emily as well

I wish I could but I think it would cost way too much now lol especially Donald and Douglas

Miksolo · Miksolo 12-12-2016, 11:27 AM the only furry who cares about plarail

(12-11-2016, 08:14 PM)Ucwepn Wrote: The Plarail Thomas plow was a pain to put on yesterday for my tree layout and felt like it was either going to snap the plow or the buffers off of poor old Thomas and it's the one he came with :O. I would go for the later Trackmaster 1 design that comes on snow covered Henry for example, much easier to put on and take off and compatible with any engines with buffers. I'll try and get some photos of the plow later off the loco

Thanks, Ucwepn. Looking forward to the photos

***Ucwepn*** · ***Ucwepn*** 12-12-2016, 10:49 PM The Fat Controller

Here are the pics as promised, tried hard to get the measurements in the pics

ROKMAN1445 · ROKMAN1445 12-14-2016, 09:55 PM Senior Member

(12-11-2016, 04:06 PM)Miksolo Wrote: Can someone send me pics of the Trackmaster snowplows from all basic angles (sides, front, back, bottom, top) and maybe some dimensions? I find it difficult to find cheap snowplows for my engines, and have none yet, but was thinking of 3D printing some, but first I would need to create the model, and make sure that they could fit on whatever engine I want to apply the plow to. Does the design of the official one make it so that it works on pretty much any Thomas engine?

Snow is silly soft stuff. Won't hurt me. I do have a snowplow that attaches to a front coupling. It works good with my Hypercity Cargo Liner.