I had a couple basket case Proto 2000 SD-7's and I made 1 good one. But I didn't have enough parts left over to make a decent looking second engine:
What I have now is a chassis, drivetrain, missing the running gear in one truck, Shell (cracked) and most of the detail parts. What is missing are the headlamps, fans and some small parts. I've decided to make a scrapline engine out of it, piecing it together as best (and cheaply) as I can. The first thing to tackle was the crack in the shell which was an easy fix with ACC and body putty. Finding fans was more of a challenge. I needed to do this cheap (did I mention that before?) so I went rooting through my junk drawer and old bachman F-7 had all the fans I needed. I just needed to cut them out and sand them thin:
Whenth thinned and somewhat rounded I glued them in place on the SD shell.
They aren't perfect but again this engine will be sitting on a scrap line in my junkyard so any faults will be heavily weathered over.
I haven't decided on the paint scheme yet, mostly because I don't know who all owned these things without the dynamic brake. I do know that Norfolk Western and Great Northern had them but one is an eastern road and the other has a paint scheme that's too complicated for me to bother with.
What I have now is a chassis, drivetrain, missing the running gear in one truck, Shell (cracked) and most of the detail parts. What is missing are the headlamps, fans and some small parts. I've decided to make a scrapline engine out of it, piecing it together as best (and cheaply) as I can. The first thing to tackle was the crack in the shell which was an easy fix with ACC and body putty. Finding fans was more of a challenge. I needed to do this cheap (did I mention that before?) so I went rooting through my junk drawer and old bachman F-7 had all the fans I needed. I just needed to cut them out and sand them thin:
Whenth thinned and somewhat rounded I glued them in place on the SD shell.
They aren't perfect but again this engine will be sitting on a scrap line in my junkyard so any faults will be heavily weathered over.
I haven't decided on the paint scheme yet, mostly because I don't know who all owned these things without the dynamic brake. I do know that Norfolk Western and Great Northern had them but one is an eastern road and the other has a paint scheme that's too complicated for me to bother with.