Santa Fe 1800 Class

[Schraddel]

Hello,


here too i added cab window glass. In 1:87 reality these are very thin sheets out of clear styrene. When you buy a new men's shirt, these thin styrene sheets are used to stiffen the collar in the sales packaging. Don not throw awy, recycle it , theses sheets are very useful for model railroad purposes.
How they turn into cab window glass:
- cut little pieces with a scissors in coarse contour
- refine the contour as needed
- there is no need to match exactly the contour of the window opening
- leave a generous rim
- put the "glass" sheet into the cab
- add some tiny drop of CA applied by the tip of an toothpick to one corner
- the more than thin CA will immediately spread out between "glass" and cab wall without spreading over the visible areas
- wait a few seconds
- that was it

Especially when you will glassing the front windows of the cab, there is more work to meet the contours because of the boiler contour and cab detailing fittings. But it is possible to create one sheet which covers all windows together.







All windows glassed. Parts of the rods and valve gear were painted plain white.
The fabric of the sun visors were painted somewhat tawny.





And here we are now.





Loco #1825 at work on a local with switching duties at the Fremo meeting 2017 in Wolfersweiler (just a few kilometers away from Ramstein AFB / Landstuhl). So some of the staff visited the meeting.
The #1825 became a movie star also. The Saarländische Rundfunk sent out a TV team to make a reportage because this was the very first fremo meeting in Saarland.

Thank you for watching.