Has anyone kit bashed the coal in the tender of their steam locomotives to represent something other than a full bunker? Wouldn't it be neat if manufactures gave us a choice of "drop-in" coal loads. It might look cool to see the usual v-shaped slope of coal in the tender instead of looking like we just left the terminal. It wouldn't have to be drastic, just a hint of what most tenders looked like 40-50 miles out.
conductor Earl
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Do it all the time. Use a block of wood carved to the shape you want and fitted in the space appropriately. Dye it black - Lincoln's shoe dye works well. Coat with Weldwood contact glue, sprinkle coal on it, wait 24 hours, cut off the loose edges, and install it. Done.
All my coal burning steam locomotive models have the coal load modified in some way, from freshly filled, to more than half empty revealing some of the coal bunker support braces.
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