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Originally Posted by southwestforests
Body or carbody will work.
The F-unit (and E-unit) nose shape is a tricky thing & I'm going to say that something may not be quite right here. The windshields might should sit a little bit higher relative to top surface of nose and to the height of side windows.
Those compound curves can play tricks with one's eyes depending on viewing angle.
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Thanks for the pictures Southwestforests, they provide a wealth of details to keep in mind for addition when finishing the model.
I understand what you mean, and the actual round edges seem to appear sharper than in the model. However, front screens in the model are higher than the side windows. No doubt that the designer has used many actual pictures to design the model, and based the dimensions on the GA drawing posted by Diderick a while before.
But there's also some trick of the eye involved here, the angle from which I took the pictures of the model and of course the effect of a fully dressed up loc in your pictures, whereas the model isn't finished yet, which "fools" the brain to certain extent.
The actual build is a bit further and from the picture attached to this post it already shows that the loc's eyebrows better resemble those of a Neanderthaler, in other words there's more similarity with your pictures.
In any case I'm curious about comparing the side view of the build's end result with especially the first picture you attached.
Regards,
Erik