My Gauge 1 Thomas Replica Process!

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Hello everyone!!
This Thread is dedicated to my Gauge 1 Thomas Replica!!! It will be updated every Saturday, so today I received the first Batch of parts, I also met @SmokeyJoeModeler!! An honor to meet someone from the community in person!! I also saw his w.i.p Gauge 1 Thomas!! He gave so many suggestions I am so grateful for!! But enough of that here’s the main attraction

The running board has been fully sanded, but it’s raining, I am ecstatic to have this with me, I can also see that a Gauge 1 Thomas is BIG!! Don’t let the size judge you!

Oh yeah! If anyone is interested.. I will be selling this Thomas by June as I will be making one out of acrylic

GreatGordonFan

That's a pretty ambitious task you've decided to undertake. I wish you good luck in building the model and selling it!

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Thank You! GGF!!

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oop, I forgot to update!
I received the side tanks, dome, and funnel

Super

Forgive my Train ignorance but what is a 'Gauge 1"?

DalaGStanator

1:32 scale (as used in the show between 1984-2008). Bigger than O Gauge, but a bit smaller than the old Lionel "wide"/"standard" gauge.

chrisjo

Yes, at 1:32 scale, gauge 1 is the MOROP (the European federation of national model railway associations) equivalent of the NMRA (National Model Railroad Association) 3/8in gauge.

There is no traditional UK equivalent, Britain has tended to use its own distinctive model railway scales for historical reasons driven by its Victorian network origins which left us with a very restrictive loading gauge, narrower and lower than in the rest of Europe with the same standard gauge track.

Super

So can I then assume that Gauge 1 is what the models were in the filming of the original series before animation?

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Yes!! 🙂

Super

Interesting...will your replica run on tracks?

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Super wrote
Interesting...will your replica run on tracks?

yes, he will run on actual tracks, have a proper eye mechanism, but not a smoke mechanism, don’t want something bad to happen

Super

Good, I am very interested in seeing the final product running. ☺️

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Super wrote
Good, I am very interested in seeing the final product running. ☺️

well it should be by late January-Early February
I’ll let the picture tell the story
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1XFU67XDe0NfpL3BJP7iB64hODK-OGJzR

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Also if anyone can let me know if the link works? Thanks!

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progress!!!

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Been a while! But I've finished Printing
Just need to start painting the wheels grey for the rim, and the chassis black
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During the time I was inactive on this post, Thomas suffered a fall and the top of his cab (not roof) broke, so I had to glue it on really hard, then I got super glue on the wheel arch and I decided to just re-paint the blue, it used to be matte but now he has his Season 5 Glossy Blue
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Super

He looks fantastic. Don't forget to come back with your grade from the science class 🙂

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Thanks Super!! Yeah I’ll let BPT’s know what I got, I don’t mind sharing it 🙂

Oh yeah, @[deleted] Im adding the motor so it can run on Gauge 1 Track now!

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I just put him on track for display, not running yet
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I guess 3D Printed Thomas is concerned by thinking he will get replaced, he won’t though
But as I said at the beginning of this post, I present to you all…
My Acrylic/Perspex Thomas! Following the same guides as the show did in Season 1!

Also I commissioned Smokey Joe Modeler (member of the Gauge 1 community) if he could make me the original Season 1 Thomas face, so I’m currently waiting on that! I had that face 3D printed my way but it recently got badly ruined at school so I decided to commission him because his faces are made SOOO accurate to Season 1 Standards![upl-file uuid=71a8cb8b-ffb0-478b-bbe5-6e3474adca65 size=50kB]CompressJPEG.Online_img(500x375) 4.jpg[/upl-file]