MWaz Get off your duff challenge

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I ended up re-doing the window install to get rid of the lumpy paint. The engineer and fireman had their legs trimmed off to about their hips and sat on a block of scrap styrene to get them to sit in the windows the way I wanted. And finally I installed the backplate.








Sometime during the build I discovered that one of the Cal-scale brake shoe details was causing a short and I removed it. I eventually removed all brake shoes and started looking for plastic ones. I ended up settling on these (I used the smaller 4. The larger brake shoes I will save for something with larger drivers):



I had to fill the holes from the Cal-Scale brake shoes and used Milliput:



I have used this stuff before and I forget where I learned of it, but what I like about is that when it hardens, it's hard as a rock and does not shrink. It will also hold threads if it needs to be tapped. Since I didn't know where the new holes were going to land, this seemed to be the right stuff.

I filed down the Milliput to clean up the overspread.



I drilled out new holes and tapped out for 00-90 screws (I used hex head screws) and installed the new brake shoes. The Precision Scale Co. brake shoes needed to customized a bit for hex heads to fit, but I think they came out pretty good.



Looks, like it's time for touch up, again, and re-assembly







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