April Fools...

 

Oscar?

I can't wait to hit up both

I can't wait to hit up both my local hobby shop for a locomotive shell in the used bin as well as Good Will for random junk this is going to be EPIC

Might need to play Smash Up to get inspired.

w00t!

This could be rather fun, yes!

@Warflight I know its a For

@Warflight

I know its a For Fun Contest but maybe we can get a poll for voting on May 1st? Give folks 5 days to vote?

I don't know about you but I hope to have time to make a mini diorama/backstory to go with it. No bigger than a shoebox. Who knows my 7 year old might enter as well!

Wish I could find the

Wish I could find the kitbashed Alien movie f40ph I saw on ebay a while ago that one would have to take the cake. It had the alien on the top front where the cab would be

The original BLT - accept no substitutes.

Obviously not for the 'contest' but...I had to share.  I built this back in the late 1980s....cut and spliced two Athearn tunnel motor frames, a big Sagami motor, and a pair of the Proto BL2 shells from when those BL2s could be had for $15.  Yes, that's a Gyralight on one end.  Guess I should put sound in the beast now...

Nice symmetry, I dig it

Nice symmetry, I dig it

Looks like something the EJ&E would have had.

An EJ&E centercab:

Double Ended Cab

Merger Terminated

My club meets at a hobby shop that sells lots of Gundum. I got a cheap one just for a fun build, and after spraying it grey thought it looked somewhat SP-ish. The UP engine is a ConCor Veranda turbine, chopped and lanced.

Someone say "Alien"?

 


I don't know about "contest"... I mean... what would we use as a prize, and how would we tally?

I just figured a for fun, let's see what you have. Like Weekly Photo Fun. Only silly!

These are great keep them

Santa Fe "SD30"

Kitbashed what if SD30 and somewhere I have the other two halves mated as an SW30 

whimsical train

Up front is Sponge Bob and Patrick (aquarium figures), the Xelor time machine car (Rolex spelled backwards), the Lionel 0333 satellite launch car with figure and lights added, homemade Yellow Submarine, and Pennsy N5c Grateful Dead cabin car.  I thought Raymond Lowey's twin round windows make good smiley face eyes.  

I use the cars at train shows.  Kids especially notice Sponge Bob.  Along with the quality models on display, I think these are a bit humorous.      http://www.nwvrailroad.org/

the chickens are the animated Viessmann 1528

@warflight

That was the one!

How about a "Hepage", a F7B,

How about a "Hepage", a F7B, prime mover replaced with a Cat powered genset for HEP, and a short baggage area.

Or, aSD40-2T with a wide cab?

Mike.

The Facebook Freelancers page

The Facebook Freelancers page is filled to the brim with people who essentially develop their own rebuild companies and come up with all sorts of engine mods. Good times

@YoHo

Where is this page? I tried google but had no luck.

Lady Lionel 1957

"Now she can do anything he can do" says this page when Lionel introduced the ill-fated "girls train".

http://www.mikanet.com/museum/item.php?item=1718

Not rediculous, but perhaps

Not rediculous, but perhaps whimsical.  Death had made a few pickups, and is enjoying the view from the rear platform as his Pale Horse rides in a luxurious custom stock car.  Dispatch had no problems giving this train priority over CSX, while its engineer fumes at the unexpected delay--until he sees the Black Train.

I've posted this pic but I think it belonfs here, although we're almost halfway 'round the year from Samhain in the northern hemisphere.  Samhain is coming fast below the equator, though.

Oil Fired 2-6-0

Oil fire 2-6-0

DZ 125 in Mantua 0-6-0

Tsunami 750 in Bachmann tender with added metal wheels and pickups.

Rich

Where is this page? I tried

This is the freelance group

https://www.facebook.com/groups/493818510704158/

It has some of what I was talking about, but I noted today that the guys doin those haven't posted much recently.

There's also freelanced and fantasy locomotives, but that's got more pictures and concept shots than models. 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/929332200464100/

U Boats on the Katy

Back in the 1980's when Bobbie Hall's hobby shop was still open in Dallas, Texas, there was a German U Boat model on display.  It was painted in the MKT green / yellow stripe scheme, rode on locomotive trucks and had Kadee couplers on each end hanging by chains.  A little story placard attached explained that during WWII, the Germans had torpedoed several MKT trains off the Galveston Causeway.  When the war ended, the Katy Railroad was compensated the damages by being awarded several German U Boats, hense the "real" story of how the MKT came to have General Electric U-23B's (U Boats) on the roster.