I've got a Fleischmann 0-4-0 electric loco which I'm never going to use unless I modify it in someway.

So I'm planning on fitting a chip (I can't quite see how to go about it, but I'll keep at it and publish my results if I manage it), fitting lights, amending the couplings from the continental ones it's got, adding larger sprung industrial type buffers, carving off the cast handrails and fitting wire ones with knobs, fitting proper grills instead of the cast plastic ones and repainting either in a fictitious livery or based on what Bass/another Burton brewer may have painted it in if they'd had one. I'm retaining the pantograph as there are sidings with overhead served by a mainline out of sight, and it charges its batteries there as well. Did I mention that I'm modifying it in my head so it's got batteries as well as overhead?

When I've got any pictures (I may have to reassemble it for a "before" picture), I'll put them up. Or I may leave it in pieces and find my £12 manky one rather than learn on the £80 new one. Anyway, they'll be pretty much of a muchness when they're done, as they share a chassis, and they'll both get lights etc.

Now to hit eBay and get some LEDs unless anyone has a better source?