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Roy Langridge

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  1. Four cats here, and I would guess at a whisker a month found. Three are black, so ideal. Roy
  2. They are the two Class 60s (60050 & 60086) that were preserved at the Wenslydale railway. 37503 was there, so could be that. Roy
  3. Tried using the search function, but it never seems to work well for me on my mobile, so apologies if this has been covered. Is there an option to buy a DCC sound decoder for a DC Titfield Thunderbolt train set? Looking at the Rapido website, I can only find a Lion option, which I assume is not the same. I was bought a DC version and would like to upgrade it. Thanks, Roy
  4. Not impressed with the paint finish I am seeing on these. Both 47596 and 47555 as shown are showing blemishes etc. Roy
  5. Not just their belief, it is a fact that the specification changed mid-1980s. There was a period where “old stock” was used up, but generally anything repainted from the second half of the 1980s on had a more orange shade. Roy
  6. I find it slightly annoying that minuscule errors in diesel locos seem to be less acceptable that miniscule errors on steam locos. So often we hear criticism of the cladding not being properly represented or the profile or a wheel being slightly incorrect, yet fundamental shape errors in diesels should be accepted. Yes the headcode glazing recess is small, but the face of a loco is so important and that appearance is changed, as it is by footsteps in the wrong place. Roy
  7. Funny how we look at models so differently. The yellow on the Heljan model looks out to me, as if they have used the post 1985 shade on a model pre-dating that period. Something has happened too often across most manufacturers. Roy
  8. I’m hoping @adb968008 is buying one so we get one of his superb comparisons. Roy
  9. Try this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/134949932258?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=Ny7IWU6CQFG&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY Roy
  10. Why not bother reading the loco spec which clearly says yes? Roy
  11. How much you need to remove depends entirely on the radius of your curves. Remove a little at a time checking against your track. If you have track cutters, they can do quite a neat job of cutting off little bits at a time. Roy
  12. Shame the 31s were D5500-5699 and D5800-D5862 then 😉 Roy
  13. Seam lines down the front of the cab roof doesn’t look great either. I know they look to exist on some 47s but they are really subtle and I suspect are more weathering induced. There also seems to be several areas where the Bachmann model has a greater attention to detail. Look at the cantrail grill dividing bars as an example. They don’t all go fully top to bottom, modelled correctly on the Bachmann model, but look incorrect on the Heljan model. Ready to be corrected and look forward to seeing the Heljan model in the flesh, but at the moment my Class 47 money is not heading to a Heljan. If we are to have duplication I want to be able to buy both and them stand scrutiny against each other. Now, the Class 11/12 money, that is a different story and one that Heljan seem to have pulled out one of their stonking models. As commented on that thread, if only all Heljan models attained that level the rest of the field would suffer. Roy
  14. Wow, those cab handrails must be close to being out of gauge! Roy
  15. But what is our comparator? I often think our judgement of what is right is what we are used to seeing now, not necessarily what was in the past. Too many locos today are greener and shinier than photos from the 1960s show. Is that modern paints? The photos lying to us? Or weathering of the subjects photographed? For me Bachmann locos look very close to how preserved locos appear, but is that realistic for the 1960s? I have not seen a green 31 from Accurascale in the flesh yet, so I can’t comment on that, but photos of that and photos of 31s in the 1960s both look duller and a different shade to Bachmann. Roy
  16. Where do you feel the difference is? I too have handled the Accurascale offering and thought it was spot on. Have you seen a Bachmann version “in the flesh”? Roy
  17. Never tried converting some of the Bachmann Class 20s then? Some of mine by the time you got the P4 wheels in the bogie, the outer faces were hard against the bogie moulding which needed significant work. Strangely, some were ok. Roy
  18. I don’t think that is correct. Under the consumer right act, goods must be fit to or purpose. If you can prove that the goods failed within a period that it is reasonably expected to last, then you have a case, whether it was ok at the time of purchase, or not. I had the electric window mechanism that failed on a car replaced after five years and 47,000 miles, well beyond the two year warranty, making the case that it should not have gone wrong that early. The dealer wasn’t interested, but finding other people with the same issue and getting Renault UK (yes, I learned the error if my ways) involved resolved it quite quickly. Roy
  19. But still quicker than a ship, but just think how cool it would be! Reinforce the roof and it could land at the warehouse! Roy
  20. Or you can see it the other way round, they are so confident in what they have produced and that the number of locos with faults is so small, it won’t be a big cost. I know which one I favour. Roy
  21. Fully agree, I too dislike bogie mounted couplings as, in my opinion, they detract from an otherwise perfect looking loco. Roy
  22. Never understood that myself… Roy
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