A while back, I purchased body shells of a Z24500 from Jouef, since the actual train set is almost impossible to find. I had the shells done to match the original livery. I then changed the body from a set I got with a livery I'm not interested in.
Prototypical EMU
Here are some pictures from the real thing:
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| https://www.flickr.com/photos/hhhumber/5474243189/ |
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| https://www.flickr.com/photos/16412147@N08/8666123100/ |
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| https://www.flickr.com/photos/plzen242/49358365702/ |
Miniature Model
Here's what I got made for me:
Here's the set I'm going to convert:
It's the reference Jouef HJ2122. It's the Métrolor livery for the Lorraine region. The body shell came with no pantograph, so I had to unscrew them from the Métrolor body to the other one. It was very straight forward.
I added the two ESU decoders from Train Modelisme and some figurines as well. Here's the result:
