I started by rebuilding the housing of my very old Roco BR199 H0e narrow gauge locomotive.
The rebuilding was not great.
I inserted a vertical beam separating the cabin window from the door.
I painted the locomotive green and the dummy with silver acrylic pen.
The decal is a fragment of the PKP wagon decal.
I got the locomotive a little dirty (valorised :)) and put the windows in the cabin.
The next step was to take care of the propulsion.
The locomotive was old, worn out, and didn't run very well anymore.
I washed the wheels and drive modes and replaced the engine with a set bought from Tramfabriek.
https://tramfabriek.nl/
I made lighting plates from pieces of a printed circuit board. 0.5x1 mm diode inserted into the hole in the board, resistor and contact plates.
The plates are cut in such a way that when inserted into the housing, they do not fall out, and the LED is at the height of the reflector.
From a piece of pressboard, I made two plates with metal plates, to which I soldered the wires from the decoder.
The idea was that the casing could be removed without the need to unsolder the cables or connect with micro connectors, because they take up a lot of space and have cables that irritate me, because they live their own lives when I put the casing on.
The photo shows everything in the "spider" test version. Before final assembly, of course, I shortened and adjusted the decoder wires. The decoder and capacitor with the UPS PCB soldered to the pins fit into the booth. And I made a shaft cover from a pressboard.
The final effect can be seen in the photos.
In my opinion, it turned out to be a nice and well-riding model, only the blue cable next to the clasp and the orange one in the cabin became visible when the locomotive was put together. I have to fix them or paint them black. Or cover it with something. :)