SD45B (High Hood)

[Kiro]

I always wanted to model a SD45B, since it is a rare diesel and only two were built, numbers 5501 and 5502. It started with an Athearn SD45 RTR and an old AHM GP9, from where I got the short hood. The short hood needed a lot of work to match the lines of the long hood as you can see in the pictures and to represent the real prototype; Had added parts from Canon&Co for the doors at the bottom of the hood. The SD45 body will receive Canon&Co parts such as exhaust hatch, fans, inertial filter hatch and photo etched steps, reworked from a SW1500 kit. Still is in progress and hope will be finished soon.


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[DRGW 5398]

Well awesome, great job angling the hood and roof transition from where the cab was to the original hood. Can't wait to see updated photos. I've always liked high-hood B-units!

[RunningExtra]

Kiro, you are knocking these units in the head, great job!!!

[Freightrain]

Ahhh... Kiro once again gracing us with his presence with all of these top notch museum quality loco's, can't wait to see the finished product.


Here is a link to an OMI SD45B painted in ATSF
www.trainmaster.ch/X-552.htm

[Kiro]

Nov 23, 2009 6:37:48 GMT -5 @nbec said:

I always thought those units looked meaner then even the high nosed N&W and Southern units. Are you going to touch up the paint or strip it and repaint?

Still I don´t decide. I want to pair this unit with a SD45u that received a paint touch up, and if fact you can´t tell which part was "repainted", it looks very good. The problem is that the yellow that I found matches with the lead unit (floquil reefer yellow) don´t match the color of the microscale Santa Fe emblem that would need to be used for the SD45B, so.... think it will be a wasted effort to super detail a loco and have a mismatch between the Santa Fe emblem and the yellow used for the hoods or a mismatch with the lead unit.

[CIOR]

Kiro, great work. That slope you did is great. That is something that is hard to do, and from the looks of it, it looks great.

[Jack Napier]

I think I actually saw one of these units in Texas, circa 1995. You're really doing nicely, kiro.

[stewarttrains98]

very nice modeling. looking great so far.

[Kiro]

Some updates, the hood has been fixed to the frame, and some details were added, yet it still needs a lot of work....

[DRGW 5398]

Lookin good kiro, love them high-hood B's! Can't wait to see her painted.

[Kiro]

As far as I know, there were no B units SPSF painted.

[Santa Fe Sammy]

Another great job so, Kiro!

I built one of these years ago and it's great to see another one!

A bit of SD45B trivia - There were actually 3 of these built - the first 5501 was wrecked and scrapped less than a year after being built into a B unit so they built another 5501 to replace it in Dec 1983.

[atsf90]

That is some very nice work. When those were first released they were ran in an A-B-B-A set.