Fixing the Athearn IC GP's

[icrr3067]

Athearn released about a month ago the IC GP's.  They were done really well, but they were missing some details.  Out of the box they were about 75% correct. 

Here are two pictures of IC 9323 out of the box. 

The side shot:

ICGP_2 by Timothy N. Alund, on Flickr

And the nose shot:

ICGP_3 by Timothy N. Alund, on Flickr

The details missing from the GP are poling pockets, a drainage tube on the enginer side, "Always Be Careful" decals on the front and rear pilot, the horn is the the correct style, the mu cables should be a set of three, and it's missing a tool box on the enginer side sill.

Here is IC 9185 after my work to the GP.  It is about 95% correct, the only two things I didn't do were installing the tool box on the sill, b/c I didn't want to destroy the sill if I messed up, and the other thing is I didn't replace the horn yet b/c no one makes the correct style of the horn, I did try making one out of plastic but I didn't like how it looked.

Here is the side shot:

ICGP_4 by Timothy N. Alund, on Flickr

Here is the close up of the drainage tube:

ICGP_5 by Timothy N. Alund, on Flickr

And the nose shot with the "Always Be Careful" decals, the added poling pockets, and the correct mu hoses:

ICGP_6 by Timothy N. Alund, on Flickr

[Matthew]

Should there not also be a GP9 sign on each side at the front?
Matthew

[icghogger]

Nice Work, Timothy, Very Nice!!

[mta224]

Nice work,Tim.Those added details are what makes the difference.What did you use for the poling pockets?

Anthony

[icrr3067]

Feb 25, 2013 0:57:21 GMT -5 Matthew said:

Should there not also be a GP9 sign on each side at the front?
Matthew

My apologies for not being on here for a while.  Matthew only a couple of orders got the GP9 plate on the side of the engine. The one's that Athearn did were not in thoes orders.

[icrr3067]

Mar 21, 2013 8:37:49 GMT -5 mta224 said:

Nice work,Tim.Those added details are what makes the difference.What did you use for the poling pockets?

Anthony

Again, my apologies for not being on here, Anthony, I used Grant Line Eye Bolts, the pack is a ton of different sizes and you just match up the one that fits the frame and cut off the "bolt".