Rich,
Very nice work. Unfortunately there’s no ideal solution for fixing pilots on the MTH SD40-2. The body tooling has the wrong step well contour. The factory pilots are quite crude, especially in the steps. After fixing those on a couple of models, I more recently tried repurposing an Atlas SD40 pilot leftover from a conversion, adding a spacer:
Not only is the step well contour wrong, but the dimensions too. Better than nothing I guess. The steps on a more scale pilot won’t align with the body. Too bad the GP40 part isn’t available. I find it frustrating MTH won’t stock two-rail pilot parts. Of course I also find frustrating that the 3rd Rail-Sunset SD40-2 project never got the orders needed for a go....
Best,
RM