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G Scale indoors, O Tinplate, Micro Layouts
Aristo Teddy Bear Express Surgery to real Pennsy A3A
I picked up this lovely piece of hideousness at the BTS, its in good shape except its bunker was broken off. This is a good older version with the better drive brick. AC sold this as a tender version based on a real Pennsy A3, and as the tenderless tank/bunker A3A version. The only real problem was AC got cheap and didnt provide simple screw on water saddletanks. I decided to rework it as a real A3A which meant grafting water tanks onto the boiler,
Some styrene and CA adhesive later:
Here is the bunker repair:
Painting right now, brush acrylic over the hideousness, its easier to cover everything and gives the spray paint something to adhere too, will use Floquil flat on the driverods otherwise it would stick with acrylics. More pics when it gets more complete.
...I'm going to need alot of paint. :-\
I picked up this lovely piece of hideousness at the BTS, its in good shape except its bunker was broken off. This is a good older version with the better drive brick. AC sold this as a tender version based on a real Pennsy A3, and as the tenderless tank/bunker A3A version. The only real problem was AC got cheap and didnt provide simple screw on water saddletanks. I decided to rework it as a real A3A which meant grafting water tanks onto the boiler,
Some styrene and CA adhesive later:
Here is the bunker repair:
Painting right now, brush acrylic over the hideousness, its easier to cover everything and gives the spray paint something to adhere too, will use Floquil flat on the driverods otherwise it would stick with acrylics. More pics when it gets more complete.
...I'm going to need alot of paint. :-\
