Plymouth Street

[cnw1961]

Quite a bit happened here since my last post. I know, I should have posted earlier, but I have a good excuse. I have been too busy modeling . So here is in brief what I did the last few days.

After putting those mockups (that you can see in the pics above) along the runaround on the right side of the layout, I began to realize that the runaround did not look right. It looked much too short and the big structures enhanced that impression. So I decided to shorten Plymouth Street on the left to add almost 2 ft to the runaround.



It is looking much better now and Plymouth Street is still looking good.







Some parts for my engine arrived yesterday, so I made some progress here, too. I started with adding the missing details to the rear pilot. I really like that weedcutter.



With the new parts, the Cannon Co. 81" nose had arrived. Assembling and making it fit was exactly as bad as I had feared. The Cannon hood is a bit higher than the P2K nose and the cutouts for the battery boxes are longer. Nothing that could not be cured, but it took ages! To add the new anticlimber however, was a piece of cake.



The last step to turn the P2K geep into a mid-production version was to add the wire mesh radiator grilles (Cannon).



It is starting to look right now.