Defacing Diesel class 08

So, I recently bought a diesel from eBay, I like the engine and I especially like the drive unit IMO a good unit that's quiet!

So here's diesel


Most engines have a detachable face which is cast seperatly then attached by melting tabs located in the engines body. This is not the case with diesel, his face looks to be cast as part of the body then later painted, which makes defacing a little more tricky,

Firstly I drilled the four corners of diesels face,


The idea was to make the corners neater, but I probably could have got away without doing this, I then used a dremel type tool to remove the face


Once the face was out I cleaned the opening using a stanly knife


To be honest my stanly skills weren't fantastic and I could have done a better job to keep the opening square but oh well, you can only remove so much plastic! The next job was to fill the opening I used some plasticard I had laying around and glued it in the opening,

And this is as it stands, I'm waiting for the glue to dry, I intend to paint the plasticard black and fit a wire mesh grill, not correct for class 08's but I like mesh grills, and I have some mesh!

TBC