Large Scale Central

Rail bus to paint and letter

A two-car rail bus that needs a custom paint job for the Sprite City Transit Authority. It's a Hartland Locomotive Works Doozie, and a Bachmann Big Hauler combine. It'll be the street car for the "city" line of the layout. 
 
 
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Here’s where the rail bus is at the moment. Probably won’t get any more done until next week.

Copper tops on lamp vents are a nice touch.

Dragon bus is almost done. Still a few parts drying. Smoke unit is installed. Still have to reinstall the decoder, wire everything in, and pipe the smoke unit to the dragon’s head. I also have to seal the head so the smoke comes out the mouth and nostrils. Oh, I also have to build and install a couple of switches to control smoker and the fan.

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There’s always something! (https://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)Looking good.

Almost ready to wire things back in. Smoke unit is plumbed. I have to put in a switch and fuse for the fan and smoker. I used screen for the windows, instead of plastic, so the smoke unit would have plenty of air. The dragon head is sealed. I have not put hand rails back on yet, as I forgot them until I looked in the parts box and went “Oh, heck!”