Camelback

I have never seen a commercial camelback in N scale, not even in brass.

The only ones have been kitbashes of conventional engines done by individual modelers.

This was announced in 2011.

http://mrr.trains.com/news-reviews/new-products/2011/03/news-products-for-march-10-2011

Scroll down to the photo.

Den

WOW

You will have to want it REALLLLLY bad.

RSLaserkits lists it as $463 for the superstructure kit and $775 for the chassis (unless I missread it and that's chassis and superstructure).

Isn't that a kicker?

I think Adam needs to look into 3D printing.  Maybe somebody on Shapeways could create one?  Of course the guys there will ask if Adam can get several orders together to justify the time it takes to gen one up.  Or Adam may have to learn a CAD program to gen one up himself.  I wonder if that program that Michael listed to run designs against his laser would work for design items for 3D printing?  I will have to ask.

Den

Aspen Camelback

The Aspen kit is meant to fit a Flieschmann chassis and those locos are available on eBay for about $100!! Maybe they did a custom frame?

I seem to remember that there was a Mother Hubbard kit available years back from one of the cast whitemetal manufacturers (GHQ?) but I can't find it online now.

I am assuming Adam is actually looking for a Mother Hubbard not a Camelback. Most still get that wrong.

To be strictly correct a camelback is one of the early locos built by Wyanns with a full length cab on top of the boiler and a narrow firebox. The later Wooten firebox locomotives built to burn anthracite are strictly speaking Mother Hubbards.

Yes, I am being pedantic!!

OKGraeme