Well after buying a Shapeways 201 several months ago I decided time had come to start the project. Now I knew there was going to be a lot of work in this kit but BOY was I in for a big surprise. Now I know I had a rant at Rich and some of the guys on here for having a go at the DC kits generator van recently but now I put my hands up and say I was wrong to do that. As Rich said its as easy to get it right as to get it wrong. But the Shapeways 201 is nothing only mistake after mistake and for the money well its just not worth it the price on this kit is far to much for what you get, and the amount of work you have to do to get a good looking loco (don't get me started on trying to get a smooth finish). Now guy's don't get me wrong this is not a personal attack at the designer or manufacturer but I paid my money for a kit that I thought was basically paint it and fit it to a class 66 chassis. But this couldn't be further from the truth. When you think of it all they had to do was take the body from a Lima 201 and make one or to changes to it to make it fit a class 66 and then make a cad drawing of it. So to show you how I got on and 6 bottles of valium later and a lot of grey hair here are the pics.
The side grills were to short I had to add etched brass grills that were the right size.
The body height is to short so fine strips of plastic card had to be added
There are no sway lines down the side of the loco so had to add my own
There is no roof grill just a flat piece of plastic where it should be so had to add an etched brass one
The exhaust is the wrong size and has no detail so I took the exhaust of the Bachmann class 66 and extended it