Robert, After carving off the side ladders I used the back of a #11 Xacto blade to score the wood grain where the 'shadow' of the ladder was. Then went over the area with a scratch brush with metal br

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Robert, I just finished applying the decals on my build of C&S 13571 last week. Haven’t yet applied flat coat or any weathering yet. On the ends I removed the inboard ladder stile except for the middl

Thanks Elden. The Monon gon was a pretty easy project using the spiral ends from Shapeways. I have two other kit-bashes of USRA gons waiting for their trip through the paint shop, Ted Culotta's Litchf

I recently finished the same kitbash using the an undec IM USRA gon as the starting point. The spiral ends available from Shapeways are a drop in replacement of the kits ends. Very easy conversion. Th