--- In [email protected], "Bill Lane" <bill@...> wrote:
As previously posted I have an unknown number of hours in
> making my K4 5495 - it is in the thousands of hours though. There was LOTS
> of research, buying photos, making custom parts using various methods,
> besides just doing the work. In the end the time etc spent making it was
> immaterial because it was for me. In spite of 15 years passing and all that
> time spent making it there are some glaring errors. I was trying to take a
> brass model depicting the original as built model and make it into its 1954
> appearance. I had to draw the line someplace and finally complete it,
> hopefully to a level that in 10 years from now I would not look at it and
> say I should have done THIS to it.
> Thank You,
> Bill Lane
>
Interesting point. I detailed up an AM GP9 for IC, and for years, it sat half
done waiting for me to "get it right" and I think I have for the most part,
even though I bit the bullet left off the visors on the class lights that the
IC was fond of, but spent an inordinate amout of time getting the plumbing and
regulator on the air tanks correct. Plus rebuilding the pilots, adding grabs,
lift rings, yackity-smackity, bla, bla, bla...
On the other end of the spectrum, I had a pair undec AM GP35's from when they
first came out. These were going to be super-duper detailed CB&Q GP's. I
gathered all up the parts needed and placed them on the good old "Round Tuit."
Finally, I got tired of them kicking around, drilled out the AM horns, added
grabirons, lift rings, an almost invisible frame mounted bell and painted them
up for a freelance railroad from my dark HO past.
I'm happy with the way both projects turned out.
Now, all I have to do is finish the two Smokey Mountain boxcars I've been
putting off...
Rich G(ajnak)
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