Lookin' good Casey.

The decal rivets were finished and the final construction was started. It doesn't look like much but the rivets took over 3 hours to do, while watching hockey.





I ended up getting rid of the number board on the tender headlight I tried to make it looked too clunky and there is a flat spot on the side of the headlight which is a reused spectrum 2-8-0 front headlight.

I jumped around a little starting the finer details starting with the front driver set. The plate on top of the pilot got cut down more too after noticing it was like that in pictures. It makes the lead truck and steps more visible too.



Then I did the dome throttle and injector piping.


Then for no real reason jumped to the tender and got everything on that on.




Where it sits now is the engineers side is all ready. The interesting challenge in this part of the project was figuring out how to apply the layers to interfere with each other the least, and not accidentally gluing the shell together. Getting the main boiler handrail to sit right took lots of tweaking too.

I didn't think I would be getting to it today but had the time to get the other side done so it is now ready for paint.

Simply amazing work! I'm still nervous to start my N1 project...

Ready for service. The finished pictures are taken on a recently completed 18x30 diorama made for finished projects. Decals are a mix, Microscale Green Scheme for the tender logo, parts of my dwindling pieces of Champion steam sets for the cab numbers, left over hopper numbers for the front number board and Microscale alphabet sheet for the head lights.




Here is the video to go with it. It's a monster puller, I don't think I have the space to max it out in my "train room".

Awesome work! as slow as my T-1 and M-1 projects are going, I may hire you to make them for me hahaha!