10-03-2009, 04:40 AM
Here the frame of the diesel - I indicated the parts that need to be removed with red. After more than one hour of dremelizing about half of one of the smaller bits was gone. At that point I started wondering whether it could be done more efficiently...
The frame only needs to hold the engine and the bogies, really, and have some space for a pair of LEDs, so it shouldn't be that challenging to scratchbuild that. I guess... Well, nothing stops me from trying both approaches! Double the fun, right?
And just to show what end result I'm aiming for: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://users.atw.hu/limitbahn/mozdonyok/m44/406/M44%20406_1.JPG">http://users.atw.hu/limitbahn/mozdonyok ... 0406_1.JPG</a><!-- m -->
Haha...yea right. (that model would be the H0 brass model I mentioned..)
The frame only needs to hold the engine and the bogies, really, and have some space for a pair of LEDs, so it shouldn't be that challenging to scratchbuild that. I guess... Well, nothing stops me from trying both approaches! Double the fun, right?
And just to show what end result I'm aiming for: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://users.atw.hu/limitbahn/mozdonyok/m44/406/M44%20406_1.JPG">http://users.atw.hu/limitbahn/mozdonyok ... 0406_1.JPG</a><!-- m -->
Haha...yea right. (that model would be the H0 brass model I mentioned..)
-norm