NS1100 Del Prado gains some couplings

A quick update on my Del Prado loco from the Netherlands (not Norway as I originally thought... they both start with N!)

We have couplings!

I differed from the original model here a little by attaching the buffer beams and couplings to the bogies, but apparently this is how the real locos did it too, so really, I'm making things more realistic! I did it this way as there just wasn't room to have them mounted to the body and still have the bogies rotate.

Fitting the couplings was easy enough, I just used my trusty razor saw to cut out a box, filed it to size, and fitted a coupling. A lump of styrene on the top helps secure things. Everything was glued together with Polyzap, since the coupler boxes are some kind of slipper engineering plastic and are hard to glue with just regular superglue.

So now my little loco can go around hauling things. Great!

I hooked it up to some carriages and it was able to haul 6 of them around the railway without slipping, so it seems more than capable for its size. It's also the noisiest loco I own. I think the recycled motor is a bit primitive by todays standards.

I've set it up on a little work train, sitting in a siding waiting for some time on the main line. I reckon it rather suits the yellow maintenance equipment.

Still lots of little finishing touchers that I can do. I needs windows for a start, and maybe a touch up of the paint.  It could really do with a better motor and I need to give its wheels a darn good clean, as it's not the most reliable runner at the moment. However for a $10 loco... I can't complain at all.