Once upon a time I took a trip to our local model shop for some paint, came home with the paint plus a Bachmann N Class.
Super loco for 50 quid it ran beautifully. This has to have sound fitted.
A phone call to Youchoose sourced a decoder and speaker.
I have weathered her a touch, added a crew, some real coal, vac pipes and a few other bits. Noticing the backhead had a fair bit of detail on it, thought it worth highlighting some of this.
There, that's looks better.
The front of the tender got the same treatment plus some real coal.
Putting the decoder in I had to do a slight modification, I had to remove the screw that holds the backhead in and replace it with a countersunk screw.
It later prooved necessary to remove the small ridge next to it.
Adding pick-ups to the tender was the next job, why don't Bachmann do this?
Thought I would try the ones from DCC concepts, they are shocking, I ended up cutting the wipers off and replacing with some spring wire locating them further from the wheel. There is just to much resistance with them.
Far better. Also, a friend of mine gave me probably the smallest plug and socket I have ever seen, bit fiddly but works a treat.
A few more picks.
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