Lou1985 posted:For comparison purposes I'm posting 2 pictures of the Stevenson Preservation Line SP MK5 Mikado and the Williams Mikado. It doesn't seem like it would take much to effort to "Espee" the Williams Mikado with some detail parts and a Vanderbilt tender.
The steam and sand domes are a very different shape. Would you have to take the Williams down to bare brass and unsolder them? I've never assembled a brass model, so I don't have a good feel for how difficult this would be.