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Here's another chop, cut, rebuild. A Mantua F7 body on a Proto 2000 FA1 chassis. It was a shotgun wedding. The truck and weight supports inside the body had to be cut out. On the P2K chassis the front coupler pocket had to be removed and the headlight fixture had the be removed. The corners on the front of the frame had to be ground off (1/8" each side) to allow the body to fit. Naturally it runs like a dream. Here's a photo of it in it's final form, if you can get over the Alco trucks that is.
Now, just make a SOO Line GP30, and I'm happy.
Looks good!
Actually, that SOO Line GP-30 isn't a bad idea. Frame length would be about right and you can get GP-30 shells pretty cheap. It would be a nice model of an unusual prototype.
The loco has been repainted for the MGRy and has a matching B unit which also has AAR trucks.
I've also been working on an old Bachmann FT shell. I did some work on it today. The paint on the cab is still a bit rough. I'll take care of that tomorrow, I'm too tired to do it tonight. It wouldn't do any harm to put the decals on though so I did that. Also did the decals for the two F7 shells. Here are some photos of the FT as it is right now.
The FT is as done as it's gonna get and the F7-B needs just a spot of paint on the diaphrams. Wish the decals were better but this new printer is a piece of crap!
I've got the decal printing problem licked. If I make the decal at a larger font size, say 12 instead of 6, then print it with the printers scaling set at 25% I get nice crisp decals with no blurring or fading. I have one that's so small I need a magnifying glass to read it. It says 'DIESEL FUEL ONLY'.
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