CNR MLW M420 kitbash

[sailormatlac]

Here's the 15 years olf kitbash I'll have to restore to working condition. It is one of my first locomotive kitbash done when I was 17 years old. At that time, my only tools were a metal saw, a dull #11 Xacto blade, a pinwise with one drill bit and a paint brush. Everything was glued with CA, many parts were made out of wood. Particularly, the roof is sculpted from a wooden venitian store blade! At that time, I had very limited access to styrene. Louvers were made by embossing aluminium foil on another locomotive shell then cut to size. I never completed this locomotive but I did operate it during the summer of 2001. Only numbering and modifying handrails were left to be done. College finally took all my spare time and our family was later forced to move. It wouldn't be before 2007 that I came back to model railroading when I graduated from university.

Honestly, I'm not sure if I'll be able to turn this wreck into a believeable M420. But I have nothing to lose. Let's look at the shell before I start messing with it:



















Matt