Freelanced Slug

[Traintresta]

Came up with this out of the bits box on Saturday. It was supposed to be based on a CIC slug but inut the underneath air tanks on the realised I don’t need the cut out in the hood!

[Prof Klyzlr]

Dear Train,

 

Love it! I take it the donor mech is a Proto2k EMD SW or Alco S switcher?
Were you able to retain the powered-mech, or is it now a dummy?
The white-metal GE airtanks look familar (and surely go some way to counteracting the weight lost by the fuel-tank removal),
and I can see this being equipped with a small armada of strobes, ditch-lights, and headlights.

 

Can't wait to see how it turns out...

 

Happy Modelling,
Aim to Improve,
Prof Klyzlr

 

PS what Mother-unit are you intending to mate this Slug with?

[Traintresta]

It’s actually a cut down athearn SW7 chassis that was originally modified to take a proto1000 S1 shell sitting on a modified atlas RSC4/5 walkway. I wasn’t happy with the frame showing below he sill so it became this. 

 

It it will get a motor and added weight inside but it won’t be the original motor, and at the moment I only have a CF7 as a possible mother unit for it. The CF7 isn’t exactly standard though. 

[F-UnitMad]

Interesting mods to the CF7. Are they based on a prototype? 

[Traintresta]

16 hours ago, F-UnitMad said:

Interesting mods to the CF7. Are they based on a prototype? 

No, just did whatever I fancied on that given day. I’m using s lot of parts from my bits box rather than acquire specific parts.