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Life-Like Proto 2000 HO E7 review
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<p><font size="3"> You will be happy, I'm sure. I have some of the new ones that I have put Loksound in. They are great runners. There was some debate about the older versus new drive. My new ones run quiet and smoother than my older ones, YMMV. I have some I just got in from Walthers that I haven't even opened yet.</font></p><p><font size="3"> Lifelike did some work on the E8/9 molds a few years before Walthers bought them out. They eliminated most of the opening doors, retooled the area behind the side grilles, and took off the "ridge" around the windshields that supposedly represented the gasket. There were a few other small changes as well. That was also the time that they finally tooled a "B" unit. I was cutting noses off and splicing to get B units before they came out with them. The E7 has had very little done to it. The E8/9 is not bad, but, the nose on the E7 really bothers me. I have an unfinished E7 that I cut the nose off of an Intermountain F7 and grafted it onto a P2k body. The Intermountain and P2k have almost the same width and cross section. A Highliner body will not work- Don't ask how I know!-lol. When BLI came out with their E7, I abandoned these projects.</font></p><p><font size="3"> I am primarily a Mopac modeler. I am in the design mode for having new side panels etched with the proper portoles and vents for MP/TP E7's. I have some of the resin ones available a few years ago, but, they are very crude and do not fit well. Good Luck with your units.</font></p><p><font size="3"></font></p><p><font size="3"> Keith Turley/ Details West</font></p>
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