Reply To: Atlas 3-Bay Cylindrical Hopper for ART (LOCX), KO&G, TP and MP

[peggyrothschild]

Added the two missing supports, glued the roof walk on using thin Acc glue. Keith in his instructions recommends Barge cement or canopy glue but both of these are quite thick and I didn’t want to run the risk of having the glue showing through the PE grates in the roof walk. I put a few drop of the thin acc in a plastic coffee can lid and use a needle to add a small drop of either side of the roof walk where it sits on top the brass support. I’ve used this method on two of the six bay Atlas cars I added supports and roof walks to without any issues.

I also made up some plastic ladders I found in the spare parts box to replace the brass ones supplied by Plano. I spliced two ladders together to get the right length from the floor to the bottom of the walk. I like these better as they have the rivet detail that the brass ladders don’t.

Next stop will be the airbrush and decals.

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