Canadian Pacific 2-8-0 Kitbash

[sailormatlac]

Nice goin' Matt. I'm getting excited about your tender. Keep 'er rollin' please.

Cheers!

Keep rolling?? Sorry about that, I was in a rush at job, having to complete a report by yesterday afternoon.

Started working seriously on the tender this morning. Removing paint and hiding joints. The good thing is that rivet lines on the tender top are at the right place. No quite prototypical on the sides thought... Well, there's a limit to crazyness.

Pieces glued together.



Some automotive putty to fill up the gaps.
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Sanding the putty to a get a level surface. It's where the water hatch will be located.



I removed the factory paint and thick Rock Island crest using 95% rubbing alcohol counpound. Works well on the black, but need a little bit of wet sanding on the logo.




The final product:



Now I'm the fun part start! Euh? No way... I've to figure out how I'll rework the underframe... CP tenders had a strange truck placement. In fact, the truck near the cab protruded one wheel in front of the tender shell. That could be a major problem for real time operation...

Matt