Kitbashing a doodlebug

[cnrglen]

Well I finished the doors and installed them


After I fabricated the doors I cut holes in the splice pieces that were already mounted on the shell so that the windows would be open.


I sanded the 4x4 filler piece down on the bottom so it would blend in and added ho scale 1X2 as trim around the doors.


I attempted to make the RPO doors as close to the baggage doors as possible with thin styrene overlays, the engineer and fireman doors are a bit simpler with kick panels on the bottom. My next step is the window trim around the inside so the four windows that I added will look like the originals.
Wayne has been kind enough to pull his model out of storage to give me some of the dimensions that he used for trim as well as tips for construction.
In other news I acquired the drive for the unit:

More on this a bit later..