Glen's diesel rebuild thread

[cnrglen]

I completed the three engines up to weathering this morning.
Starting with the F-3's







I found that the dulcote gave the roofs a bit of a 'mottled' look to them. I'm not sure why this happened and a second spray didn't change the look either. I'm just going to call it a bit of 'pre-weathering'.





I added the diaphragms to both engines and cut bars and MU hoses to the B unit. The A already had these installed. Not shown is the speed recorder added to the front left truck frame.





The diaphragms do bring the two engines together but the don't touch. I could add some shorter-shank couplers and that would solve the problem but I doubt it would work with some of my tighter radius curves on my layout. So I'll just keep them as is.





Turning my attention to the Intermountain/Stewart F-7. I painted the chassis black in the sides where the portholes are. It looks better that seeing the silver gray.




Not a lot of work needed for this one. Roof mounted bell from Rapido, speed recorder on the front truck from Miniatures By Eric.





MU hoses on the rear from Detail Associates. The cut bars are factory.





Other than the weathering, these engines are done. I'll probably keep the weathering on the F-7 a bit light, a little heavier in the F-3's.