O Scale 2R SOU SW9 1138

I did this repaint a long time ago, but I was contemplating writing a magazine article on it, but didn't feel my photos were good enough for publication, nor did I do anything that special.  I spent a few hours trying to find the right unit to model with moderate work and in my time frame.  I selected 1138 and I had a photo of it in two different time frames.

I modified an AtlasO SW unit for this repaint.

I noticed the cab needed small window shades, a firecracker antenna, and a single-chime horn that extended in front of the cab.  Luckily, I was able to reuse the same headlights.  That can be seen below.

 I ordered spare parts from Atlas due to the fact that 1138 had curved handrails and dropsteps.  The parts are seen below.

One of the harder parts was making the spark arrestors from soldered brass mesh and aluminum tubing.  Not exact measurements were done.  Just all visually to my eye.

Typical polly scale acrylics and microscale decals were used.  I installed laser-cut windows from Chooch Enterprises.  I weathered the units with bragdon powders.  Yellow handrails are done with tamiya flat yellow as this paint holds onto handrails rather well.  Enjoy the rest of the photos of the finished unit.

If someone knows how to get the software to stop rotating my photos longways, it would be nice to know how to avoid this problem.