fenbo destruction. FINISHED! [for now...]

i have a fenbo santa fe, which is in poor shape. missing tyre, horn and battery cover. runs ok though.
i just bought another this morning and decided to turn the old one into a back engine, and make a double header train. my partner runs santa fe HO scale, and this is partly to be cheeky, since he always has multiple units on the front.

to do this, i need to fit a front coupler. i already swapped to a thomas coupler on the rear, and will do the same to the new one.

i used a craft knife and worked at slicing through the plastic on the front. in the process, the blade slipped and did a marvelous job at slicing through my finger.
i cut through most of the plastic and then used a spanner to work the two cuts to remove the centre. result was i snapped the "bumper" off, lol. i am going to take it to the club to file down the section needed to allow the width of the hook, and also to glue the piece i broke, back on.

thankfully, being the back unit, the damage wont too noticible.