Whoopdee-doody, a few evenings fuddling in AutoCad. But today, thanks to Mark Gasson's Magic Perfactory Machine, some semi-transparent reality arrived in the post.
Insane.Insane. These are 40mm long each and match Atlas N scale Dash-8 axlespacings give or take a few hairs. That's officially tiny. Click on the pic above and check out the bolts around the axles. Blown away.
Now to see if I can cast these things as it's going to get pricey to have him run them off by the dozen...
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So what are these worth? I have been using the company Stratatec in Christchurch to do my RP stuff, and they are quite reasonable for price. They quoted $18 per piece to do sets of 1/34 scale Dsc bogie sideframes (huge parts compared to NZ120, 110mm long!) Theirs is the same breed of machine as Marks, but bigger, and also I used Si500 resin, which is opaque Tweety-Bird yellow, which may or may not have a bearing on the price.
hmm, looks good hows the fit on a Kato sd40 chassis?
Hi
I assume they would fit the sd40-2 dimensions as most of the mainstream american c-c- stuff is pretty similar dimensionally.
Looks like if i do some sort of bulk run I might be able to get these run off (rp, not cast) for 15$-10$ if anyone is intereted.
Every time I look at this blog, I'm blown away by every new development. Good work team. Maybe its time to have a more serious look an NZ120...
Is that $10-$15 each or for a set of 4, I know I would be interested as I'm doing a Dx at the moment on a Ds 40 chassis.
NICE ! I am defenitely interested to buy these truck sideframes as well. I bet you will sell more of them than I did with the N scale AC4400CW ones Mark4 did for me. All others, take a look at this page, there are some more pictures 'how to' install them (although for the Kato AC4400CW trucks but the 'technique' is the same): http://www.steve4painting.com/shop.html (no worries, shop is closed !) cheers... steve w.
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