Smudger

Smudger was a yellowish-green colored engine. Smudger was repainted and recycled from Rheneas' model, which was custom built to run on O gauge track to the Gauge 1 Scale Standard. Four different facial expressions were worn by Smudger on-screen. The faces were first sculpted in clay, after which resin casts were made of a silicone mold. The model had a motor to power it mounted inside the chassis as well as an eye mechanism. The eye mechanism used servos which were mounted in the cab - the servos were hidden by blacking out the cab and windows. Metal rods went all the way from the servos in the cab to a bracket in the smoke box behind the faceplate, one for up and down movement and one for left and right movement. This limited the range of movement of the eyes as well as being cumbersome and jamming often. As he shared the same model as Rheneas, the inside of his cab and the front of his cylinders were red. In a promotional image of Smudger as a generator, the red from Rheneas' coal bunker and wheel arches can be seen. He was later turned into a generator.

Smudger appeared in :

-  Granpuff

-  Thomas' Sticker Express

-   Duncan Has a Spill (does not speak)