Lehigh
Valley
Railroad
SW1 #112.
USA Trains
NW2
kitbashed into a SW1.
1/29
scale.
Scot
Lawrence
Page 2
Beginning
the
model. The USA
Trains
NW2 is
a great starting point for bashing into a SW1.
(drawings from railroad paintshop. http://paintshop.railfan.net ) I
bought a
Conrail NW2
to use for this bash. October 11, 2005 I took some photos of my Conrail NW2, and did some measuring and cutting in photoshop. first, the victim, a USA trains Conrail NW2: so..where
to
cut the shell?? Time to
do
some "photoshop
kitbashing"! First,
I drew
two lines
on the SW1 drawing, to see where the outer edges
of the body fall in
relation
to the trucks: then, looking at the position of the lines on the SW1 drawing, I drew in the same lines on my side-view of the actual locomotive..using truck details to place the lines: then I
measured the distance
between both ends of the NW2 and the lines, added
the two distances
together,
and it came out to 234 pixels. closer
up: remove
the
chunk: Put the
lines
back, then
move the front and rear to match up with the
lines, and they should
meet
up nice and neat: neaten
it up,
paint it
red, and we have a SW1! [:D] I will
probably re-measure
the length of the cut, because using a side-view
photo isnt quite
accurate..USA
trains very conviently provides a drawing of the
locomotive on their
boxes,
so I will use that and see if I need to modify the
cut..but this is
very
close. |