LocoWorks - Odin goes battery/RC [2] .. out with the plasticard

Today it was time to get the plasticard out...

Rather than dispose of or hack about the Playmobil 'footplate', I decided on a simple cover up job to give me a good flat surface to add on to.....

The advantage of keeping the Playmobil 'footplate' in place makes it easy to take out the motion if I need to replace it.

checking a standard Playmobil battery pack fits...

While I was at it I decided to tweak the tender to widen it slightly to make it more in keeping with the width of the loco...

Trial assembly of all the bits ... the aerial pokes through the top of the saddle tank at the front...

lots of bits to do... remove the buffers, add couplings.....etc...

LocoWorks - Odin goes battery/RC [1]

 Back to the loco works for a change to an engine I acquired three years ago.  The change will be to my 0-4-0 tender loco Odin, to make it battery powered and radio controlled.

I'm going to use a Playmobil RC chassis and replace the existing LGB track powered chassis; some adaptation will be needed.

Odin taken to bits....

The Playmobil chassis,  I'll have to make a hole in the loco body for the aerial to go through..

First trial fit of the loco body to its new chassis..

Quite a lot to do to get the loco to fit right onto the new chassis... plus a better coupling system with the tender (or a fudge as before 😀 )