Custom Tomy Old Slow Coach Timeline

Here's my Custom Tomy Old Slow Coach so far. I know that Plarail's already made one but I want to give a custom one a try considering Plarail's is slightly inaccurate, a bit expensive on eBay, and has banners. 

A Steam Along Thomas Clarabel that I had laying around was used to make the Custom. I have only gotten to finishing most reshaping, I have yet to prime it as of the 15th.

Before Sanding

Sanding the roof vents off




Once the sanding was completed, reshaping began.


After reshaping by sanding, I put in index cards to minimize the amount of Milliput I would have to use.

Then it was time to add the Milliput.


Holes were drilled out to provide more windows on the model, in addition, some of the side panels were also filled in.

The next step was evening out the sides and adding more onto the roof, this was reshaped early then sanded later on.


More filing and sanding happened and now the custom looks like this.

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Interesting Ffar. Anxious to see the finished product.

Thank you! I'm excited to get this done but getting the face is gonna cost quite a bit due to shipping expenses.

getting the face is gonna cost quite a bit due to shipping expenses.

Will it be a Hornby/Nakayoshi/Bandai TEC face or a 3D printed/non OSC one? Nakayoshi seems to have the best size and paint for Plarail, so I hope that's the one you're going with.

On another note, "Happy Ever After" has a shot that reveals her other end, and she happens to have another window.



Sadly, this causes an issue with the way your TOMY version is built; You have the guard's compartment on the rear end like Clarabel's, whereas OSC always travelled back to front. There's no way to turn the shell around because of the hook coupling, so you might want to fit one from a power tender on the peg and have her be like Splatter and Dodge's coach. Percy would have to face away from her, but it would allow Thomas to be coupled where the face is. In spite of that, I think she'll turn out so great it wouldn't be worth trying to start over.

I wanted to have OSC face backwards for a few reasons, the main reason being so that if I make more Great Western Coaches the guard's compartment is at the rear. Though with face right now I'm planning on reshaping a Lorry 1 face however, I might actually use a nakayoshi face now that you've mentioned it, if I can get my hands on a Nakayoshi Old Slow Coach for a good price. With the Window I'm most likely going to design a custom sticker for the window simply bc I do not want to go through the pain of drilling holes in the back.

I primed my Old Slow Coach custom and my Derek Custom today. Here's Old Slow Coach.

Also really hoping I don't get cancer since the Tamiya Spray Paint had a warning for that. I need to get proper protective equipment for next time.

Surprise! It seems our good old Spaniard "Steamworks workman" just got the idea to do his own Old Slow Coach in a fairly similar way to FfarDev's. She (currently?) doesn't have the guard's compartment, but the modifications look near identical.



He's even making a custom face for her that looks to be specially sculpted. If it happens to be a cast of an existing item, then I don't recognize what it was. Chances are it will even be on the back like on FfarDev's, going by the blocked windows.



Here's hoping both versions will turn out looking as grand as the original OSC.

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I am curious to see that sculpted face after he creates a mold with it and a finished product. I assume he will sell them as he does with all the customs he creates.

Question: Is Old Slow Coach a female?

Question: Is Old Slow Coach a female?

Yes, like most of the sentient coaches. There were no male ones with faces until the Slip Coaches (two males, one female) appeared 17 years later.

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Thanks Lag, I think I may have talked about this before but when I here the name 'Old Slow Coach' I just picture a male.
 

Also really hoping I don't get cancer since the Tamiya Spray Paint had a warning for that. I need to get proper protective equipment for next time.

Yes, plus spraying indoors the fumes will linger for a while and you and your house mates will re-breath it for a while. Why not spray outdoors if you don't have a way of venting?