ing prototype photos as a guide. There is a line of grab irons leading from the engineer’s side stirrup to the wind- shield on the nose of the locomotive. L- shaped grabs are added above the windshield and horizontal grabs were added between the numberboards and headlights.
The rear of the engine has an L- shaped railing on the engineer’s side and angled grabs above the m.u. hoses. A grab iron is also located just above the ladder on the roof. All of these grabs, as well as the cab roof and hori- zontal nose grabs, are .008″ phosphor bronze wire by Tichy. The final detail parts to add are the Broadway Limited m.u. hoses, coupler cut levers and windshield wipers. The cut lever on the pilot of the locomotive is an Athearn Genesis F-unit cut lever. There is a sill/step on the engineer’s side below the cab window. I made this from .015″×.040″ (No. 112) styrene. I
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cut small triangular pieces as supports and mounted them below the sill. Above the front pilot is another styrene sill also made from .015″×.040″ styrene strip. I bent the styrene strip with flat nosed tweezers a little at a time to get a bit of a curvature in the part. I then attached it to the nose with cyanoacrylate.
One nifty little detail that I like to add is the interior cab sunshades. I cut these from scrap pieces of styrene and glued them to the roof interior just be- hind the windshields. I painted them a muted shade of gray. The detailing was mostly done at this point, so I started painting the en- gine. I airbrushed a coat of Polly Scale Seaboard Yellow over the lower half of the engine. This would be the lower sill stripe and the middle stripe. Once this dried, I added the Archer louver decals. These are attached to the brass side panels and also to the lower half of the
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nose. I sealed these with a coat of Testors Model Master Clear Gloss. I then cut some Tamiya masking tape to the correct width of both yellow side stripes and placed it on the model in the appropriate locations. I airbrushed a coat of Polly Scale Engine Black over the entire model. When this coat of paint dried, I peeled the masking tape off and airbrushed the entire body with Testors Model Master Acrylic Gloss Clear.
Decals were applied and then the model was given a final coat of the Gloss Clear. Next, I added the window glazing and headlight lenses. The low- er headlight lens was made from .010″ clear styrene. I painted the side ladder scuff plates with Polly Scale Flat Alu- minum. The upper headlight has a sin- gle light and an emergency light inside of it. Those were made from drops of epoxy and painted from the inside. The last major item that needs work
9 & 10. The metal screen has been installed in the air intakes. These were cut to the exact size of the opening, test fitting them frequent- ly. A thin bead of cyanoacrylate glue around the styrene frame will secure the screens in place permanently. 11. While Broadway Limit- ed does offer an E6 with double headlights, this model had only
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one, so the lower headlight, shown here, needed to be built. 12. The pilot has a large buffer plate protruding from the nose. It was mod- eled using styrene. Details such as the horn and the roof vent have been added as well. The small panel below the cab and the bump on the cab roof were removed, puttied over and sanded smooth.
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