My Kingdom for a Z scale Re 6/6 - part 2

While a bit of work (and rework) has been going on behind the scenes on the Marklin Ae 6/6 -->  Re 6/6 project over the past few days, I don't have much in the way of pictures to show for it, as this wasn't that visually stimulating. Or stimulating at all in fact. But here is a summary report on the current sorry state of affairs from the Re 6/6 department:

1. The paper roof grilles were darkened with a wash of black so they look a bit better now. 
2. Some (fairly random) roof detailing was added ex the Ae 6/6 shell and painted.
3. I cut away a sliver of the dark grey sill along the bottom of the sides, as the real locos have this shapeliness (the Re 4/4 and Ae 6/6 are flat along the bottom). I didn't do a great job of this - taking a bit much off in places and it's not that even or straight, despite using a metal straightedge of considerable even-ness. I probably should have just used a marker to put a sliver of black along the bottom in the right place.
4. The red sides were given a light spray of dullcote varnish and this eliminated 95% of the barely-visible difference between the stock Marklin red and my painted red patches between the windows where the Ae grilles used to be.
5. The tinted-clear strips containing the 4 rectangular side windows have been glued back into place
6. The two larger 'main' front windows have been edged in silver like the prototype.

 So, with that largely sorted, I stuck everything together.

With the sides attached, it seems my homemade 6/6 roof is a smidge long (probably half a mm or less at each end) but overall it looks pretty decent alongside the 4/4, and at least they are the same width now.

Once this has all set solid, I'll add the sliver of red front and back that is missing in these pictures - it looks like it has a gap between its two front teeth at the moment. You may recall that this was removed to 'slim down' the overscale Ae 6/6 donor shell.

I'll also paint the quarter/corner windows dark grey in the next episode to match the other cab windows. The pantos are borrowed from another shell and just propped on top for looks here.

Obviously this conversion was never going to be a super-accurate, exact-scale model. For starters, the four side windows are too close to the roof. The position of the SBB/CFF/FFS on the side is too low... but that was never the intention here. It never is in my modeling. The plan was to get a believable Re 6/6 on the layout at a reasonable price and provide a bit of a modeling challenge and fun in the interim. So far we are on course...