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Where can I get  Class 50  0 gauge nameplates from guys?

Brian/Shawplan seem impossible to get hold of (email or phone) - plus, don't fancy a trip halfway across the country to an exibition for a tenners worth of nameplates if I'm honest and that'll be in 2021 anyway!

Fox seem to be out of stock on 90% of them.

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13 hours ago, brian daniels said:

Thanks Brian, Ive now sent him a message!

I did notice he had some for 009 a few weeks ago, should have bought them then but kept putting it off.

Probably more chance there than anywhere else at the moment, so fingers crossed.

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Excellent news:

 

O Gauge Class 50 Batch 2 – General Release Models
#4020 BR blue (refurbished)
#4021 BR Large Logo Blue (grey roof)
#4029 BR Large Logo Blue (black roof) 
#4030 BR Large Logo Blue 50036 Victorious WEATHERED
#4032 Revised Network SouthEast light blue
#4033 Departmental blue 50019 Ramillies WEATHERED

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On 01/04/2020 at 08:15, Hilux5972 said:

Fox Transfers do a great job with their plates. They seem o restock regularly so keep checking their site. 

 

They do such a large selection that suspect they make to order. A collection of artwork on hard disk(s) somewhere is a lot cheaper than holding huge amounts of stock.

I have not seen them at an exhibition for some time so I assume they simply don't do them any more. Their mail order way of working is much better suited to a 'make to order' process.

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13 minutes ago, SouthernMafia said:

Excellent news:

 

O Gauge Class 50 Batch 2 – General Release Models
#4020 BR blue (refurbished)
#4021 BR Large Logo Blue (grey roof)
#4029 BR Large Logo Blue (black roof) 
#4030 BR Large Logo Blue 50036 Victorious WEATHERED
#4032 Revised Network SouthEast light blue
#4033 Departmental blue 50019 Ramillies WEATHERED

 

I am particularly pleased about those.

LL seemed to sell out quite quickly. I believe NSE revised light blue was technically non-standard but it was applied to quite a lot of the class & seems to have been ignored or skipped by RTR manufacturers until now.

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3 hours ago, SouthernMafia said:

Excellent news:

 

O Gauge Class 50 Batch 2 – General Release Models
#4020 BR blue (refurbished)
#4021 BR Large Logo Blue (grey roof)
#4029 BR Large Logo Blue (black roof) 
#4030 BR Large Logo Blue 50036 Victorious WEATHERED
#4032 Revised Network SouthEast light blue
#4033 Departmental blue 50019 Ramillies WEATHERED

Don’t forget:


#4028 GBRF ‘Defiance’

#4031 GBRF ‘Hercules’ 

 

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On 03/07/2020 at 23:41, Pete the Elaner said:

 

I am particularly pleased about those.

LL seemed to sell out quite quickly. I believe NSE revised light blue was technically non-standard but it was applied to quite a lot of the class & seems to have been ignored or skipped by RTR manufacturers until now.

Not sure if you’re meaning O gauge rtr manufacturers or all scales, but Hornby definitely did 50027 Lion in Revised light Blue. 

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On 03/07/2020 at 12:41, Pete the Elaner said:

 

I believe NSE revised light blue was technically non-standard but it was applied to quite a lot of the class & seems to have been ignored or skipped by RTR manufacturers until now.

I don't know why you believe that NSE revised light blue was non-standard. Every NSE repaint from August 1987 (50050) until August 1989 (50045, first dark blue)  was revised NSE light blue. Until the wear of the original colour was deemed unsatisfactory the use of a darker blue hadn't even been contemplated.

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Well.... What Heljan said....

 

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what the ESU connections are using the NRMA colours

 

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Note the common positive for the lights is blue, and the colours go yo the aux outputs as you switch the -ve on and off to complete the circuits.

 

Heljan however have used the coloured wire for the +ve and the blue wire for the -ve.

 

took me 2 days to work out they are backwards and diodes don’t work backwards

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On 24/08/2020 at 02:09, 47606odin said:

Well.... What Heljan said....

 

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what the ESU connections are using the NRMA colours

 

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Note the common positive for the lights is blue, and the colours go yo the aux outputs as you switch the -ve on and off to complete the circuits.

 

Heljan however have used the coloured wire for the +ve and the blue wire for the -ve.

 

took me 2 days to work out they are backwards and diodes don’t work backwards

 

I guess on the plus side you didn't fry anything vital!

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On 15/02/2021 at 09:57, MGR Hooper! said:

 

Well done Heljan! 

I’ll just plant the subtle suggestion of 4mm version a la class 25 and shuffle off subtly back into the shadows... :D

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Hello  everybody, due a duplication of purchases :scared:, I have a surplus Heljan 50 - 4021 Large Logo Blue, with grey roof loco, brand new if anyone is after one .... pm's welcome :ok:

 

Best regards & stay safe

Craig.

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So after initially trying to order a Heljan 50 from the first batch and my stockist not being able to be supplied I recently decided to buy myself a present  from the proceeds of 1. my Mum's old 009 layout, passed to me by my Dad as my Mum is now in a care home, and 2. some OO stock I knew I would never need.

 

Below is my very nice, and very large, present which I named and numbered last week; along with the 43 year old reason for buying an O gauge model of a 50 in the first place.

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This morning was to be spent solely fitting the cab to shore phones into the cabs but great fun was then had detail painting the rest of the drivers desks whilst in situ on the loco. Certainly an improvement, although once the body is back on you can barely see it at all.

 

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Sound should follow in about a month once my bank account has recovered from Christmas. I hope all you other lucky owners appreciate your model O gauge 50 as much as I do mine.

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On 26/12/2021 at 13:46, Flood said:

So after initially trying to order a Heljan 50 from the first batch and my stockist not being able to be suppiled I recently decided to buy myself a present  from the proceeds of 1. my Mum's old 009 layout, passed to me by my Dad as my Mum is now in a care home, and 2. some OO stock I knew I would never need.

 

Below is my very nice, and very large, present which I named and numbered last week; along with the 43 year old reason for buying an O gauge model of a 50 in the first place.

 

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This morning was to be spent solely fitting the cab to shore phones into the cabs but great fun was then had detail painting the rest of the drivers desks whilst in situ on the loco. Certainly an improvement, although once the body is back on you can barely see it at all.

 

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Sound should follow in about a month once my bank account has recovered from Christmas. I hope all you other lucky owners appreciate your model O gauge 50 as much as I do mine.

How lovely to read of the joy this model has given you (and how terrific to have a real class 50 nameplate too). Long may it continue to do so. 

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