A quick and easy military figure conversion followed by a 'Day out'

 

Just after I came home from our tour to the exhibitions at Neumünster and Hamburg, one of the travelling companions invited to a day out and running session on his garden railway the following weekend. It's been a while since I've been running my Roundhouse W^D livesteam locomotive, so I decided to bring it along. 

I've felt that this locomotive missed 'something' and decided that I wanted to add crew to it before the running session last weekend. There wasn't much time to arrange something, and when taking a look inside the locomotive's cab not much space for crew either:

It's a military locomotive and I wanted a military crew for it. On Thingiverse I found a couple of free figures (one military and one civilian) I resized to 1:19-ish scale to fit the locomotive which I then 3D-printed:

The locomotive-cab was so cramped by valves, cranks, servoes and tubes that the figures didn't automatically fit. Some cutting and drilling (to make them partially hollow) was necessary to make them fit. Thereafter they were hastily painted olive green mixed with a little brown to make the uniformes resemble British Battledress':

The Lance Corporal to the right needed to be stretched all directions but the height to make him partially hollow and fit on the lubricator cap

The 'original' driver to the right for comparison 

Despite that the 'chopped' figures didn't look so good, they looked much better when fitted inside the locomotive-cab:

I managed to get them just about ready for the day out at my friend's garden railway last weekend. Since operating my Livesteam locomotive takes so much attention, I usually don't get to take any photos of it during operation. This time however Tom Arild Sørli took some great photos of it. -Thanks mate!

This is a LGB-model of a Heeresfeldbahn steam locomotive HF110C, and is closer to 1:19 scale than the more usual 1:22,5 for LGB models, and belongs to a friend. The livery is civilian postwar though:

Here are some impressions of other trains from other companies operating the line last sunday:

It's not too obvious on this photo, but the 2 flatcars are still civilian in an American livery, so I'll guess they will be 'militarized' as future workbench project.

Thank you for the invitation and your hospitality Heine!

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Michael: 

I love to paint and weather my rollingstock, but I follow the suit and our club and run them whenever I can, despite time of year, temperatures or weather. This rollingstock is really sturdy and take rough weather well: