Update Feb 16th
Now I see why many of these brass kits don’t get built and end up being called doorstops. This is not an easy model to build like a plastic airplane or battleship where there‘s a full diagram, everything’s labeled and the instructions are clearly written out. And if you think about it this kit stayed inside its original shipping box for 50 years. How many times did the original owner look at this unassembled kit and say… nope, not going to happen today. Or, what was I thinking?
For years the early OSR magazines had advertisements from O scale kit manufactures with the slogan: Take pride in saying, I built it! I sure hope I can say that at the end of this project.
The current problem I’m up against is the brass material that needs to be removed from the engineer’s window is more than “a little bit of flash” that gets trimmed-off with an X-Acto knife. This extra brass material is as thick as the nose casting.
I thought out my situation and decided to create a paper pattern of the good window from the engineer’s side of the cab. I took this paper pattern and flipped it over. Then, using reference point lines as suggested by @Johnbeere I traced the outline on the engineer’s side of the cab with a fine tipped ink pen. With a Dremel and files I carefully removed the extra brass material from inside the engineer’s window all the way out to the marked reference lines.
Next, that single E7 style number board was progressively removed from the engineer’s side of the nose casting. I started with a medium flat file, then switch to a fine flat file and I finally smoothed everything over with fine grain 800 wet/dry sand paper.
Success! Removing the extra brass worked just like you guys said it would. That means this build will continue. 👍
Stay tuned for the next update…
