Wheeltapper 2012

Winner of Steam Locomotives non UK

Mick Moignard's D&RGW K-28 #476 HOn3

Description: Scale/Gauge: HOn3 scale, 3 foot gauge, 10.5mm track gauge. The 10 K-28 "Sports Model" 2-8-2s were built by Alco in 1928 to start the modernisation of the Narrow Gauge. 476 is depicted as she was in 1951 when she hauled the San Juan Express between Alamosa and Durango.
The model is an extensively rebuit Westside brass model, completely redetailed from photos. Added detail includes tender brake gear and new reail frogs, door detail on the doghouse, reworked running boards on the right hand side of the loco, reworking much of the loco piping, adding flag and fuse box on the smokebox left side, airpump access step on the pilot beam and bash plates on the piolt. Note also the foward tilt of the tender because of the heavy coal load.
Painted with Railmatch paint, baked, and lettered with Tinfilm decals. Weathering by airbrush, washes, powders, inks and Rustall. 476 is fitted with DCC and Soundtraxx Tsunami sound in the tender together with a GMR chuff cam on the #2 axle.