RhB Tm2/2 tractor with Hiab crane!

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At the Peterborough show yesterday, I collected a very nice (and surprisingly reasonably priced) second-hand example of the little LGB RhB Tm2/2 shunting tractor - the one with the half-length box cab in orange, and the open platform at the front. Having got that, (I've been looking for a well-priced one for ages) I nipped onto German evilBay and ordered one of these:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/290538144062?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2648 < Link To http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm...ksid=p3984.m1497.l2648
to sit on the front platform as shown in the picture. A little bit pricy, yes, but fully assembled and painted so all I have to do is fix it to the loco. When finished, should be a very pretty little works unit!
I'd looked at the much cheaper options for a Hiab type unit, such as the toy ones off various Dickie trucks etc, but decided that the amount of detailing, repainting etc that would be needed to make it look right made buying the proper model one worthwhile - especially given my time-poor state these days!

The tractor is already factory-MTS-chipped, so now I just need to acquire an S module and get it programmed to the right sound files, hide it in the cab and fit the speaker somewhere.
Will post some pics when I've finished it!

Jon.
 
Re:RhB Tm2/2 tractor with Hiab crane!

Certainly looks the part, will it be fully extendable too? One of the guys on the RhB forum made one too and mounted it on a Tm2/2, they look really good :)

If anyone wants a cheaper option, but not a basic toy, Revell do one for their 1:24 trucks for £20 but nowhere near as detailed as this.
 
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PaulRhB said:
Certainly looks the part, will it be fully extendable too? One of the guys on the RhB forum made one too and mounted it on a Tm2/2, they look really good :)

If anyone wants a cheaper option, but not a basic toy, Revell do one for their 1:24 trucks for £20 but nowhere near as detailed as this.
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Did you mean the Italeri one, in their truck accessory set? Looked at that, but didn't seem quite so suitable for loco mounting (much cheaper, though, I agree...).
There is this multi-media one from KFS, nice when finished but it looks like a LOT of work to build, I'd never find the time to do it justice.
http://www.kitformservices.com/tq/h...ke it less vulnerable to handling. Jon.
 
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Awesome Jon - I have something similar well down my 'one day' list to try and butcher one of those RhB tractors to represent the OBB narrow gauge maintenance cars like these...

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Nice pics James, though depressing to see that even Austria has its share of mindless cretins with spray cans; when I used to go there on holidays, it all seemed so clean and untroubled by that sort of thing, I don't remember ever seeing any graffiti or vandalism there.

Getting a bit OT here, but that makes me think about the fact that you can buy graffiti decals to go on trains in the smaller scales - it's odd, but I always sort of feel that is just a bit uncomfortable. Yes, I know it's in the name of "realism" because it reflects how the world is, but I think I'd rather believe that my own little railway world is free of such lowlifes (or at least that they get caught and locked away by our ever-vigilant little 1/22.5 scale versions of Gene Hunt....) ;)

Jon.
 
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I agree Jon - in the smaller scales a good weathering job can be enhanced by adding grafitti but it doesn't feel like it has a place in G-scale. Sorry for the hi-jack by posting the OBB ones, which aren't the same as the RhB ones anyway!
 
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Zerogee said:
Did you mean the Italeri one, in their truck accessory set?
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Yep that's the one Jon! Too many bits lying around to remember who makes what ;)

James I'd start from scratch rather than try and convert the Tm into that, it's going to be way too short by the time you've done the cab there'll be no rear deck ;)
Somewhere in the depths of the forum are some pics of the mockup of one of the bigger Tm's the RhB have in yellow I did. It's still a pile of drawings and a card mockup though even about 5 years on. I can't decide whether to do it in G or Om or make it an 80 or 90 series one.
 
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thats going to look fantastic!:thumbup::love::love:
 
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You used to able to get an EMEK hiab, but I haven't seen them around for a while?

SPM used to do them....
 
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That Italeri 1:24 one looks great for the price.

Sorry - off topic but as for my 'one day' project, I guess it's a choice of a quick and dirty bash of the Tm2/2 or building one from scratch on the LGB railbus chassis.
 
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Well within your skills James ;) why use the railbus something like an Aristo or USA trains 6 wheel block with the middle axle removed would be much cheaper and you might becable to stretch them to the right wheelbase as they have separate motors in one and a flex drive in the other.
 
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