First kit bashed wagon

I found a G10 refrigerated car from POLA on Ebay. Unfortunately, it does not have the matching coupling system from Lenz and the under carriage detailing is not up to par.
However, I liked the car (it gives me an excuse to endulge in my favorite bevy) and so I found a kit from Addie described here: ?Addie adapted G10 chassis It is an altered chassis that is sold for scratch builder and Kit bashers. It has been adapted so that it fits under the Pola G10, a popular conversion.

I filed the lugs of the beer reefer car and glued it on the chassis from Addie/Lenz. Added the steps and half an hour later it was finished, weathering and some more details I have to order, yet to come.

The cars sit it the fiddle yard that is now all wired and working ok.

V 100 has arrived!!

The new locomotive from Lenz (new for me) has arrived from Addie. The engine is big but beautiful. It is heavy and I love the detailing on it, it has some neat sound effects like the announcement in German that the train is departing. The sound is loud and I am trying to change the CV. In the little room I have it resonates quite a bit and is annoying after a while.
It is pure joy to run, it creeps along when set on the shunting setting, F5, and pulls all the cars I have no problem.

I am so hoping that the V36 will be arriving soon too and am still waiting for the remainder of the DCC controlled switches to finish the track laying.

Bring in the clouds

It has been a while since I posted the last time. Since then I have painted the backdrop with a sky and stenciled in some clouds using a stencil I had. The front of the layout also got a coat of black paint so that the eye can focus on the main attraction, the railroad.

This is how the other side of the main station yard looks like:

I also laid down all the track in the yard and in the fiddle yard as well. Unfortunatly, the DCC controled Right hand switches from Lenz are on backorder and have not yet arrived from the factory at the dealers.

It starts looking more and more like a layout. I painted all the walls black so as to make it quite different from the layout. The track in the front is the programing track and the next job will be to hook it and the rest of the wiring up. I currently have only one pair of wires connected to the layout from the Lenz controller, but have decieded to add a few more as to make sure there is current to all track when ballasting and painting is done.