DalaGStanator's Customs, Mods and Experiments

Behold - my first non Thomas custom in this thread. From the collection reveal:
 

Due to its' wonderful potential, I hope to use the [powered ex Annie] chassis for an even bigger fleet of custom shells depicting diesels, electric engines, railcars, coaches and large trucks (not necessarily from TTTE). One downfall is the battery pack will limit what shapes I'll be able to use. If I knew how to reduce it to one battery on top and still get it to run, I could've had a bigger variety of design options.

This is not Bear or the Works Diesel, and the number has no relation to Daisy (who shares it in The Railway Series). Even though I still haven't been able to fix the chassis, I finally decided to try building a top for it. I made up a "freelance" diesel with features of various European classes, only to unintentionally base the livery on Rail Blue. Not wanting to use red again right after Jack and Skarloey, I chose to avoid using an Israel Railways livery for instance.



The shell isn't secured to the chassis, yet fits tightly enough to take the battery pack with it. After the photos were taken, the headlights were poked out for potential LED installation (would be wired to the former steam/sound switch). As long as the battery pack still isn't soldered, I'll be able to use the chassis for locos with different bonnet/cab designs (with a weight in its place to prevent wheelies). I actually quite like the result despite having a livery I didn't initially want to use.