Jim Gillum Article on Modeling Streamlined K

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Marty;

1)Please consider articles or mini-clinics on your Proto Y conversions.
Maybe at the Division, Region, or perhaps at an NWHS convention or
mini-con.

2)if you're not happy with the way your brass runs, I know a guy....

Frank Bongiovanni
Ever Subtle

On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 6:31 PM NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> I am half-heartedly making notes and taking a few pictures of it and some
> other N&W plastic steam projects I have been working on the last couple of
> years for a maybe someday Arrow article.  Since starting a layout, I have
> been looking for any excuse to thin out my brass models, as many of them,
> to be polite, disappoint when it comes to running.  These are not contest
> models by any stretch.  I compare them to adding some basic details to
> Athearn blue box diesels; they look good enough at a glance on the layout
> that you know what they are.  So far I have cut and spliced the J shell,
> but still have to fill in some gaps.  I'm not sure how I am going to model
> the covered feedwater heater, but after that I will probably not worry
> about too many other details on the locomotive, other than a Rivarossi Y6b
> tender.  I recently completed a Y4 and Y5 using Proto 2-8-8-2's, and
> modeled one of the pre-streamlining K2's using a Bachmann heavy 4-8-2.
>
> Marty Flick
>
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> Sent: Friday December 10 2021 2:41:49PM
> Subject: Re: Jim Gillum Article on Modeling Streamlined K
>
> I’d be interested in seeing the results of your bashing effort, Marty.
> Maybe at a future convention or (given that I think we live in the same
> area) somewhere local.
>
> The streamlined K2s post-date my period of interest, but it’s an
> interesting project either way.
>
> Matt Goodman
> Columbus, Ohio
>
> Sent from my mobile
>
> On Dec 10, 2021, at 12:02 PM, NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org>
> wrote:
>
> I'm also working on making an HO scale streamlined K2 by modifying a
> Bachmann J shell to fit a Bachmann 4-8-2 chassis.  The aforementioned
> J-Juniors article is the best single resource I've found, though it is all
> prototype information.  Kurt Kramke had an article in the 20-1, Jan/Feb
> 2004, Arrow, on converting a Bachmann Spectrum USRA 4-8-2 into a K2/K2a
> prior to their streamlining, and Jim Nichols includes some notes on
> modeling the streamlined Ks in his Tennessean column from the same issue.
> I am not aware of any other article detailing the modeling process for
> making a streamlined K2/K2a.  I do recall reading some discusion of this
> project years ago either on this list or an online forum.
>
> Marty Flick
>
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> Sent: Friday December 10 2021 5:58:51AM
> Subject: Jim Gillum Article on Modeling Streamlined K
>
> As I mentioned on the Zoom convention, I'm working on kitbashing a
> streamlined K from a Bachmann J. I found the April-May-June 2007 issue of
> The Arrow with narrative and photos about "Baby Js" but no luck yet finding
> the modeling article by Jim Gillum.
> Can someone with better index files than me, or a copy, point me to that
> article? Thanks!
>
> Jeff Cornelius
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