Tom said:
> If you go for the Baldswin DS 4-4-1000, I'd like to know how you do it.
Me too. :-)
My thinking was to add falsies to the front/rear corners, make a template
for the small cab windows above the hood, scribe, then drill/file out.
Clear styrene or other clear plastic would be cut and filed to press fit
inside the new opening. The unwanted louvres on the hood side doors would
be chiseled off and sanded smooth. The unwanted doors beneath the cab sides
likewise. I wasn't going to bother with the nose grill. I've done all of
this and more (including dropping a Kato motor/drive system into it) to have
a Frisco DS-4-4-1000 in HO. Started with the Athearn S-12. Really, I need
to put down this keyboard and walk away... I'm talking myself into
attempting this again. Bad boy Tom, bad.
> I contemplated the same Baldwin model for a CGW DS 4-4-1000.
> I never purchased one because the trucks on the AM model S12
> are not the correct switcher trucks.
There's the SHS option for those that are very fastidious modelers and have
the capability to mill some metal, then there's the "modify and make do"
method until something better comes along. I'm am fast approaching the
conclusion that IF I wait until it's all perfect in the S scale world... I
will be pushing up daisies.
Andre Ming
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