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Aristo Teddy Bear Express Surgery to real Pennsy A3A

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#1

Aristo Teddy Bear Express Surgery to real Pennsy A3A

I picked up this lovely piece of hideousness at the BTS, its in good shape except its bunker was broken off. This is a good older version with the better drive brick. AC sold this as a tender version based on a real Pennsy A3, and as the tenderless tank/bunker A3A version. The only real problem was AC got cheap and didnt provide simple screw on water saddletanks. I decided to rework it as a real A3A which meant grafting water tanks onto the boiler,

Some styrene and CA adhesive later:

Here is the bunker repair:

Painting right now, more pics when it gets more complete…I’m going to need alot of paint.

#2

You will be doing the world a favor by painting over those colors - YUK!

#3

What in the 7th level of hell were they thinking? Should be a cool mod when you’re done!

Terry

#4

Finally got it sprayed with black primer, evens everything out, nothing like photos to show you every place you missed.

Looks waaaaaaay better than a week ago, still needs lettering and some weathering. Also need to replace the broken front pilot steps.

#5

WHAT, you painted over the bear??? It’s not bear season you can’t kill a bear and get away with it…

Looks real good btw

#6

Amazing what some ingenuity, styrene and spray paint can do.

Did kids actually like the looks of that Teddy Bear express. The colours are terrible and look like someone got sick on it.

#7

Mark Dash said:

WHAT, you painted over the bear??? It’s not bear season you can’t kill a bear and get away with it…

Looks real good btw

Nope, worse, he got rubbed out…with denatured alcohol.