turbo hatch as a reference. Sand off any mold parting lines on
the shell.
Moving to the radiator area of the model, I glued on the Hi
Tech radiator shrouds, puttied any gaps and sanded the joints
smooth. Fill all of the mounting holes from the Proto 2000 side
radiator grilles with pieces of .030” styrene rod. I cut rectan-
gular pieces of .030” sheet styrene to fill the holes in the front
section of the radiator grilles, file the bottom to match the
profile of the other two grille sections. At this point your shell
should be looking like [12-13].
Next install the Plano radiator grilles following the included
instructions. This is shown in [14-17]. The only change I made
to the instructions was to brush paint the area behind the
grilles flat black.
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14. Plano radiator grilles step 1.
Pan-Am Railways SD45R - 7
MRH-Oct 2014
