Canadian Pacific 2-8-0 Kitbash

[sailormatlac]

Eccentric, thanks for the tips. They are more than useful! I must admit it would have been easier to fill the oval hole this way! I will never be afraid anymore of deplacing domes!

Looks like I'm not alone to use photoshop before selecting a model to bash! I always thought the J class could be a starting point for a U... I'm rather curious about the result!

I'v been modelling since around 1960.
I started resoring full size steam locos when I was 15 including ex-CP N2b 3716.
She definitely had a green cab interior.

Nice to have actual input! ;-) I'm actually wondering if I'm doing a N2b or a N2c... It's just a question of tender type. From what I've seen so far, N2b seem to have swapped tender often depending their affectation (some were oil-fired too). N2c seem to have stayed with their tender, the type I'm not interested in. My model have the flat illuminated front number board, not the triangular one... Maybe I should have gone with the triangular, it would be easier to pinpoint a spectific road number.

Tender bashing:

Just received my Commonwealth tender trucks from Athabasca today. They will need a little reworking, but that should be OK. Using Omer Lavallée's data, I used AutoCAD to draw the tender to size and see where I would have to cut the Spectrum shell to make it correct. The stock tender is 100mm long, the prototype should be 70mm.







The current challenge is to relocate the water hatch. A lot of triming to come on the upper deck.



Matt