here is my baldwin sort of VO 1000 in HO

[blues90]

  I built this unit because at the time no one was made other than brass .
 
  I used two athearn S12 shells for the length of the hood . I cut them to get the proper doors as close as I could and then cut the hoods down the center for the proper scale width hood . I made my own roof hatches and stacks . In order to bring back the walkways I first added the stock pilots then build the walkways back with styrene . I removed the stock headlamp and form one of the shells and fit it back to the new hood , just contoured the back so it fit the front and roof . I didn't build the VO1000 grill so it's not actually a VO1000 but another baldwin that was later era. I did the lowey but want to change that so it's more like a unit like SF used which just had the pilot to frame angles .

 Everything seen in white are the parts I made and in black the stock athearn shell sections . So far there is not one bit of filler or putty on it I have a way of making joints fit well .

 I used an older Concor SW2 kato powered frame and trucks and motor , extended the drive shafts and built my own tank used the athearn air tanks . I cut the frame in three sections  for the proper frame length and used brass sheet stock and screws to secure the three sections and the couples to secure the frame to the body . I still have is as it is shown .

 

[icghogger]

You, Sir, are a true craftsman!! Excellent Slice and Dice!!

[CP_8530]

A neat piece of work there! A reminder of the lengths many had to go through before the "modern age" of today's superdetailed and oddball models being easily available.

Hood splicing like that is a real talent.

[dale]

That's neat. I remember sometime in the 80s a guy built 4 baldwins of different flavors in model railroader all lettered for his MudRun RR. Really good article.

[blues90]

I thank you for the compliments .

What I do to get the splice even is measure and then scribe a line where the cuts are to be made then place masking tape just past the scribe so I can see and leave some extra plastic for final fitting. Then I us a large section of plate glass and use brush on contact cement to glue down four grades of black wet sanding paper . Then I start with say 400 grit to get close and rotate the body so as not to get out of square. The final sanding on say 1000 grit always using water , once you reach the scribed line sanding the depression of the scribe in the plastic begins to leave a bit of fuzz at the scribe then I know I'm done. Remove the fuzz much like you get when you file plastic with an exato blade .

I got the idea from the as mentioned april 1984 model rail roader magazine titled An HO Baldwin Quartet . He used stock width hoods and built a VO1000 and another long hood Baldwin on either a shortened Hobby town drive or lengthened athearn S12 frame. I built four from the latter only did my frames a bit different if I recall . Then I saw a brass unit in HO and realized the hood was to wide so this was my result.

[m a y o r 79]

Wow, very impressive build.

[blues90]

I am a little lost. This started out as an Attempt to build a VO 1000. There are other Baldwins called DS-44-1000 that are the same length hood yet they have the flat grill. Thing is, with the title all is see are the shorter hoods like the S12 that are turbo charged. It's been so long since I built this and I can't recall what the BB athearn S12 had for the roof hatches. I made mine in four sections and I'm not certain this is correct. I may have done this because the AS 616 had four sections. Also I wanted to removed the Lowey style curved areas at the battery boxes and cab and I see some stewart V0 1000's that didn't have the Lowey yet from what I can see they did have either battery boxes with either latches on the top and perhaps the sides but I can't find a photo that shows this. I had two stewart VO-1000'a one had the Lowey and one did not yet it's been so long I can't recall what the area from the cab to the walkway looked like.

Does anyone know or have photo's of a DS-44-1000 none turbo? Or a stewart VO -1000 roof view and battey box view. It seems the VO-1000 was the early model year and the DS-44-1000 none turbo came later.

I can't say if this was rail road specific but I'm looking to do one in ATSF and from what I've seen the side area from the pilot to the under walkway was not curved but just a straight section that then went up on a straight angle.