PHOTOS BY THE AUTHOR
As can be seen in this photo, Bachmann’s moderately priced F7 has been outfitted with new exhaust stacks, a new horn, a reflector-
ized number board under the headlight, a red nose light, cut levers, m.u. hoses, new horizontal air intake grilles and a new paint job.
Detailing a DL&W F7 Paint, decals and the addition of a few extra detail parts makes this model a standout/Scott Lupia W
hile wandering around the HO section at Kenvil Hobbies one day I noticed a new looking
Bachmann box with the magic word “Tsunami” printed on it. I am huge fan of Soundtraxx
Tsunami onboard
sound, so seeing this intrigued me. I could see through the clear window on the box that the engine looked great but was definitely different than other F-units on the shelf around it. This en- gine was lacking all of the details that tend to push the model’s price into the stratosphere. This engine had just what I was looking for, though. It was a blank canvas for me to do my detailing and it was already equipped with Tsunami sound. The icing on the cake was the price tag of $120. How could I pass this up? Detailing engines is one of the things that makes HO scale so much fun for me. Seeing your model all decked out with prototype-specific de- tails and knowing that you made it look like that is a great source of enjoy- ment for me. I knew that once again, Kenvil Hobbies had provided an unin- tended project that I just couldn’t pass
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up. I just had to give that little Bach- mann engine a try. I picked up a Pennsylvania unit be- cause it had the single headlight on the nose, which is what I needed for my DL&W unit. I started the project by
disassembling the engine and remov- ing all of the parts that were glued on, parts such as the nose grab irons and cab window glazing. The window glaz- ing is a bit tricky to remove since it is glued in place. It is easy to damage the
The existing exhaust stacks have been removed from the shell and replaced with Detail As- sociates F-unit stacks. The hole left in the shell is covered with a small piece of .005″ styrene.
JUNE 2013
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