Charlie,
I was looking through the book, Chicago Passenger Trains by Robert P. Olmstead. On Page 85 there's a pretty good overhead shot of an E5B coupled to an E5A, where you can see the difference between the two.
It's not a close up that we'd like for detail purposes, but it clearly shows the difference between the A Unit and the B Unit Radiators. They do look like they follow the roof contour, nothing more complex than that.
James
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@...> wrote:
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> Now you know why I've cautioned people to hold off on doing resin shell
> detailing or bashing E5s.. it is really gorgeous.
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> This is the first time in any scale AFAIK that, since this is a Phase I E5,
> that the E3-style roof radiators have been properly modeled on a production
> model.
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> In case the request comes up, does anyone have good, clear roof shots of the
> E5B units? They had a unique radiator style that needs to be properly
> modeled..nobody has got it right yet and I'd hate to see them tooled with
> the A unit radiators by default.
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> Charlie Vlk
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> From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Randy
> Gordon-Gilmore
> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 9:52 PM
> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [CBQ] Re: Kato E-5
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> At 07:38 PM 9/5/2012, Brian wrote:
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> >Kato just posted a pre-production photo of their upcoming E5 on
> >Twitter.
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> After some Googling (Kato makes a Shinkansen model also called E5) I
> found the picture at
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> https://twitter.com/KatoUSAInc/status/243456664307630080/photo/1/large
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> Thanks for the heads-up, Brian.
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> Randy
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