Bud, I agree with you on the nose being too flat, and may tackle that next. I don't know how far I'll go on the windows, but what you've suggested makes alot of sense. Originally, I was thinking of just grafting the AF cab and nose onto the AM PA body, but realized that there were way too many issues in dealing with that, such as different types of plastic and different thicknesses. Way back before AM introduced the PA, I came up with a curved roof version by removing the AF flat roof and replcaing it with curved Northeastern roof stock. It worked out OK but then you had to add back all the roof details. I think in the long run the easiest approach is to reshape the AM nose and add some of the refinements that you suggested.
Bob Frascella "In search of the perfect PA" Wenham, MA On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Bud <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Bob, > Ah ha, I'm not the only one dissatisfied with the nose on the A.M. > PA! While I haven't done much on it lately, I did the same thing as > you...scraped the top of the nose up to the bottom of the windshields. I > used an Exacto chisel blade and scraped towards the windshields. I also > added thin strips of styrene to the inner top portion of the wind > shields so that I could re-shape that area also, taking away somewhat > the "sad dog" look of the upward sloping windshields. In doing this I > think I discovered why the 6" discrepancy shows up.....if you look at > the shell from the top down, the windshields should "v" out more towards > the front, (compare the AF's to this, quite a difference). > Two other changes that make it look so much better......I added > some .010" black sheet styrene over the nose door ( the AM "gap" is way > too wide), at the same time putting a slight vertical crease down the > center.....PA's noses were not flat or even rounded, looking at photos > sometimes you can see the way light reflects off right along that > crease. Afterwards I scribed a new, much thinner door edge. Of course > filling in the horizontal "Athearn style" coupler swing-slot, is the > last big step. > Bud Rindfleisch > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
