HO scale Atlas switch / signal tower resto

[Ace-Garageguy]

I bought a bodged glooey builtup of this old kit for $3, and decided to restore and upgrade it.

It looked pretty good at first glance, like the original builder did a decent job with minimal liquid cement, but when I got it home it became apparent that somewhere along the line somebody else got to it and decided it needed to be "repaired" using half a tube of gloo to reattach what must have come loose.

Kinda common when resellers get some of these things and can't leave well enough alone, and fail to realize an actual modeler would vastly prefer to have a bag of loose parts than something fused into a solid mass.

Yeah, you can buy a brand new one for around $20, but I really enjoy saving nasty messes for some odd reason.

Not too bad, right?

Ah, but then when I really got to looking at it and the reality started to show through...as usual what started out to be a quick little job has turned into a major rework.

Oh well. It's fun to me, so no complaints. Disassembly commences.

The fact that some of it came apart very easily with no damage is due to the original builder going easy on the solvent cement. Just enough to hold things in place while it sat there.

But somebody later with a heavy squeeze-paw "fixed" everything.

Edited yesterday at 06:43 PM by Ace-Garageguy

[Dave Van]

That was a ground breaking kit when it came out.....still a nice one. I've built it a few times........but in O3r now. 

[Ace-Garageguy]

6 minutes ago, Dave Van said:

That was a ground breaking kit when it came out.....still a nice one...

Agreed. I built one a couple hundred years ago when it was new too. Can make a beautiful model.