11-16-2009, 02:57 PM
A few more photos.
I am happy with how well it has turned out. It runs very nice. For the healight I used a very small surface mout micro LED that fits in the headlight casting. The headlight lens is a M.V. Product lens. Instead of peeling all the foil of the back of the lens for the LED I just removed a small circular spot in the middle. This worked out well as it left enough silver foil so when the headlight is off it looks like it has a silver reflector and when it is on the remaining foil makes it look very real. I wish I would have thought of doing it that way when I did my other two locomotives. :x The coupler on the tender is a Kadee #58. The front pilot has a working coupler ( plastic ). I used plastic as the pilot is metal and if for some reason I decide to run two brass locomotives nose to nose I do not want them to short out my DCC system. The tender coupler uses a Kadee plastic box so it is okay.
Wayne Reid
I am happy with how well it has turned out. It runs very nice. For the healight I used a very small surface mout micro LED that fits in the headlight casting. The headlight lens is a M.V. Product lens. Instead of peeling all the foil of the back of the lens for the LED I just removed a small circular spot in the middle. This worked out well as it left enough silver foil so when the headlight is off it looks like it has a silver reflector and when it is on the remaining foil makes it look very real. I wish I would have thought of doing it that way when I did my other two locomotives. :x The coupler on the tender is a Kadee #58. The front pilot has a working coupler ( plastic ). I used plastic as the pilot is metal and if for some reason I decide to run two brass locomotives nose to nose I do not want them to short out my DCC system. The tender coupler uses a Kadee plastic box so it is okay.
Wayne Reid