MLW RS18 #615 kitbash

I started my first engine projekt ever. This will be BCR #615. I started with an Atlas Trainman RS32, an undecorated RS32 shell, bought some RS18 conversion parts from Kaslo Shops, some detailparts from Miniatures by Eric an started the conversion. I cut off the corners of the long hood and filled them with some plastic sheet. and sanded it into shape. Next step was to remove the front of the cab and glue the Kaslo part to the cab. I removed the Rs32 hood from the Atlas shell and added the Kaslo short low hood. I have to thin out the inside of the hood to fit above the frontweight. All in all it took me two evenings to complete the first steps of the conversion.

 The Pilots are Resin parts from Kaslo,too. The Kaslo parts are high quality. Great parts. Next step will be adding the two openings to the frontdoors of the long hood and adding the MbE parts to the model. This is the first of three RS18 conversions. There will be second one with low short hood,#624 and the third one will get the high short hood, #602. I´ll use an Atlas RS11 for the high hood conversion. #615 will get Esu or Tsunami sound later. The other two engines have been converted to DCC some time ago so no decoder is needed for those.