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The roof casting is a zinc alloy casting (zamac). Quite brittle. I once straightened a bent roof overhang (zamac again) on the cab of an old prewar Lionel 226E steamer by GENTLY heating the portion of the roof with a butane torch and then slowly bending the overhang between two small pieces of hardwood. It worked (of course this destroyed the paint there, but I was planning to repaint the entire superstructure casting anyway), but it could have gone the other way and cracked right off! In them present case the roof casting is small, and the required correction is slight- but it still needs to be corrected before I can assemble the car. Everything screws together in these old Roundhouse diecast kits, and if there is a warp things don't go together! <br />Cheers- Richard W.
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