Santa Fe 1800 Class

[Schraddel]

Hello,

@Wayne
At least the loco gave up for cramping onto exercising of Murphy's Laws.


Next step was demounting the whole loco as preparation for painting. Here a photo to show the filigree of the framework before painting.
Also the new Mashima can motor can be seen. I simply glued it onto the rear end of the frame.





The painting of the running gears was simultaneously done with the #1488 Atlantic.
In an agreement with my preferred loco painter, i paint the complete running gear (main frame, trucks, wheels, rods, tender chassis etc.) my self by hand brushing. There are a lot of labyrinthine areas where an airbrush have not real advantages over an hand brush. Besides my painter has a little balking of disassembling and later reassembling steam locomotive running gears.





The painted main frame and valve gear (upside down).





The loco then was complete reassembled. Wheel rims and flanges were cleaned and the valve gear was made moveable again after painting.
Here the new torque lever can be seen. It is adjustable to control the inclination of the gear box.

Afterwards both locos were thoroughly packed and forwarded to Dresden where my painter lives.