Steggy...spot on there. Haven't had to use that "well show me your build" response...YET! Try to welcome constructive criticism. I continue to look for ways to improve my model building. There's lots of good builders out there with LOTS of great ideas. Goes to show there's more than one way to get from Point A to Point B. Criticism and nit-pickers...don't have much tolerance for that. In particular, when I know those persons haven't built anything to share.Steggy wrote: ↑Fri Mar 31, 2023 4:40 pmMy typical response to anyone who questions the accuracy of a model, especially one with a lot of complex detail, is “When will we be seeing your build?”Pontiacguy1 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 31, 2023 7:27 am Since you are not building an exact model of a specific car, you can do it however you want to and nobody can tell you that you did it wrong.
I’ve never seen any of the prototype “shorties” in the flesh, so I have no clue as to how accurately Carl has modeled them. However, as the Mexicans would say, ¡No muy importante, amigo mío! What are important are appearance and craftsmanship, which having seen these cars up close and personal, I can say is on another level.
BTW, I wonder how they’d look hooked to my F-unit? Totally period-incorrect, most likely.
Prototype info? Newsflash...have never seen the shorties in the flesh either. Was VERY fortunate to connect with persons that have first hand knowledge and access to the equipment to spare me the 2000 mile trip. Had photos and line drawings to help scale the cars. Would still like to take all the shorties out to Jamestown ,CA someday. Think it would be a hoot to get photos of the mini-shorties in front of the maxi-shorties!
As for hauling around the shorties behind your F unit? Put enough cars between the engineer and the shorties and by the time the back of the train goes by, would have gone back far enough in time to NOT notice the difference. Besides, there's an excuse for everything...you're simply hauling the museum equipment to another location. How's that? Carl B.