DalaGStanator's Customs, Mods and Experiments

Finished result. Apart from the pantograph design, I chose not to take progress photos for it. Like the orange diesel, I made it without the battery pack to allow a better shape for the front cab. However, it does look comically short compared to the diesels (even the Class 08). It's also my first use of a different colour along the sides of the chassis. For the livery, mild inspiration was taken from the locos in LEGO sets 7898 and 60198. The new green felt nicer to apply than the one Alfie uses and only needed one coat. Rather than hot melt glue again, the headlight and tail light are plastic shells from small googly eyes. Being lighter than the previous three, I had to put the magnet inside to ensure the chassis won't tip. In addition, pieces of clear tape were glued into the windows, a (not very good) method I used on the "not Rail Blue" diesel earlier. Pardon the visible glue bubbles near the top.



Regarding the "overhead line": it was only a metal wire I held over the pantographs for the right facing photo. Proper ones on a layout would have two wires above each other, be bent according to the curve radius and held up between custom gantries or masts. A quick illustration: