Projekt X - a diversion

Whilst looking for something else I came across a page on a German garden railway forum about modified stainz and otto engines by and large (there's a few others which I assume aren't Stainz although the basic chassis might have come from a Stainz)...

http://www.gartenbahn-forum.de

The following image caught my eye of course:

Although the more advanced amongst you might like to try the following conversion which appears on the page:

Chris

Projekt X

More on this as it develops, but I've bought a second hand Stainz to respray and re-modell.  To do this of course I needed to get a model loco reasonably cheap that if I botched it, then it hadn't cost me much money.  More details in the fullness of time but a couple of pictures.

This is the loco as bought.  The nameplates "Finistere" have already gone to a good home as they don't really belong on the Austrian/German/Swiss theme.  

This is a picture of the original loco (L) and the resprayed and slightly tweaked version (R).  

Chris