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Re: Neat Mantua Kitbash
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I think it was Lee Town and I was thinking it was no later than the early 80's. So the 70's may be right on.
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There was another small maker at the same time that produced boiler and tender for what is obscure to me, I think it was the O&W rr. I don't remember much of them other than some mikado sized Wootens were made for more than one type of steamer and they were cast in something like epoxy. Today we can make blank tenders of any kind, from any kind of material, and finish them with the new raised rivet resin decals as well as n/b/w details. There are also different weld seam decal patterns for our use on more modern era equipment that needs welded tenders or whatever. With the loss of so much of our available parts to detail and build steamers, I've been slowly gathering steamer carcasses with the eye to RTV cast the critical domes and other fittings from them. One I got last year was just the boiler of the old Bachmann Wooten 2-8-0 because of its very nicely molded air pumps on its side. Of course there are the domes and boiler front and maybe some firebox jets to make use of as well. In general, I don't have to damage the originals to make the RTV copies of parts of them. I'm just getting into the meat of this project, doing the like casting has worked out well before. So I have high confidence in working out any bugs to get good quality castings I can use. There will be a trick or two to putting the lower curve on a dome where it sits on the boiler. Several untried ideas are floating for that. I sorta expect general steamer parts to vanish over the coming years and this is my way of coping with the possibility. Mike Bauers On Feb 24, 2013, at 7:43 AM, "Long95209" <long95209@...> wrote:
If you are thinking of LeeTown ? It was earlier than the 1980s ! I haven't seen those offered up in a while . Some of thse pieces were "add ons" if you will . They also produced a terrific "clear vision " tender . I wish[ed] they would reintroduce it , but I could'nt asfford to but it ? Cumberland Valley was the last place I saw listings for any of this stuff . Henry |
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