Canadian Pacific 2-8-0 Kitbash

[sailormatlac]

Worked a little bit on the tender this morning. I ran out of short stanchions for the coal bunker and lift bar... I hate this, and other delay it seems... They should sell them in 100-piece value pack!

Coal bunker was made out of 1.5mm sheet styrene. I test fitted it to check if everything was working out.



And with its top. You can see it doesn't align well with the tender "bump", about .25mm. I thought about redoing it, but it won't be noticeable when the wood extension will be added.



When I resized the tender yesterday, the cut wasn't perfect. I puttied throughfully to get a straight edge.



Wood extensions are made out of... wood! I once did them in scribbed styrene. You really don't get the right feeling once painted. I added some styrene braces near the sloped part. This will help to align the rear panel. Also, this way, I'll be able to glue the wood extension with plastic cement instead of CA.



The front part is made of styrene. The horizontal part served to get the right angle, but also will work a tab to glue the part in final position (learning from past experiences...).



Corner ladder... I was affraid to tackle this project in it self. It worked out pretty well in fact. I used a rather strong brass wire. I may have gone with something smaller, but don't forget this engine will be in heavy operation, mainly switching duty. I prefer this part to be strong enough to survive intensive use... and abuse!



Testing the assembly.



And the finish product:





Matt