At last some new 33s

[Lyddrail 2,192]

Regards loco 33010 the printed panels would be covered by the weathering, so would not be visible.

Cheers.

[CB Rail 193]

Hi All,

As a follow on from my previous message on Sunday concerning installing an older Hornby DCC chip in my recently purchased class 33,042 in weathered Constriction sub-sector livery.

Well this evening I thought I would ‘give it a go’.

The result?

A resounding success for me!

[Roy Langridge 3,226]

23 hours ago, Lyddrail said:

Regards loco 33010 the printed panels would be covered by the weathering, so would not be visible.

Cheers.

 

Have to disagree there, the weathering on 33010 is not so heavy so as to obscure the panels (if printed) - they just are not there. 33012 has heavier weathering and you can clearly see the panels through it.

Roy

[TomScrut 2,105]

Here is my attempt at 33063 as preserved.

 

1. I had to remove the Mainline logo on both sides with T cut and replace with transfers. This is because on the side in the top pic Heljan have put the logo in the wrong place as discussed before

2. I was over zealous with the T cut so had to try and cover back over with paint. Neither Phoenix or Railmatch were perfect matches so I had to mix a bit. Applied with a brush (not ideal I know).

3. Transfers are not the right shade and not quite the right size but better than being inconsistent or being in the wrong place. Transfers were for an N gauge loco as they didnt do them for a OO 33.

4. Again over zealous with the gloss varnish. I wanted to try gloss as they are generally very shiny in preservation, but the thickness has messed the colour up slightly. I concentrated on the sides so that the roof kept a more matted look.

5. Nameplates, BR plates and depot plates are from Fox, the Spitfire plate needed painting in a darker blue

6. Bogie details painted as per prototype.

 

 

Criticisms

1. My painting, need to get better in terms of masking etc. I found if I masked it the paint formed an edge where the tape was hence why I tired with a steady hand.

2. Not waiting to get some fine wet and dry to make the finish better where I painted

3. Too much varnish, not perfectly even and I did also catch one or two bits of fluff under it.

4. Plates and transfers not quite the right size but good enough, I am happy with them

5. Painted over the black window surrounds by accident, when I get some black paint I may put that right although I aren't too concerned about it now.

 

One day I might try and improve on it but I am happy enough with it for my first attempt at "modelling".

 

 

Prototype pics from Flickr:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[London Southwark 81]

Renumbered a Heljan 33 012 into a loco I think only lima did a version of. 

I give you 33 052 Ashford 

Numbers might need to be redone the 52 looks wonky 

Numbers - from railtec 

Plates from - fox 

[JSpencer 3,305]

On 22/06/2020 at 18:25, BR Blue said:

Just to added to the earlier discussion earlier on  in this topic. Ben Jones has said, as part of a wider discussion in the class 45 topic, that the 33/0s with the old tooling were done for Gaugemaster at a lower retail price.  This appears to be at Gaugemaster's request to keep the price down. He also said it is unlikely the old tooling will be used again. 

 

I wonder why it would result in a lower price? It is not like as if there are more bits on the latest 33/0 compared to the previous one. New bits of tooling for sure,  but once the tools are produced, it makes no difference which set you use if the generally assembly and number of bits to assemble are exactly the same.

[Butler Henderson 2,030]

1 hour ago, JSpencer said:

 

I wonder why it would result in a lower price? It is not like as if there are more bits on the latest 33/0 compared to the previous one. New bits of tooling for sure,  but once the tools are produced, it makes no difference which set you use if the generally assembly and number of bits to assemble are exactly the same.

Etched grills etc

[JSpencer 3,305]

40 minutes ago, Butler Henderson said:

Etched grills etc

 

Both the latest 33/0 with headlight and previous version without have etched grills. From an assembly point of view there is utterly no difference. On the other hand, using 2 different sets of tools for the body will increase production time. Unless Heljan gave Gaugemaster their very old first run 33/0 which has a few less parts and etches, but who in 2020 wants a special edition old tooling with the flattened roof that can be picked up cheaply off a certain auction site? It would be like doing a special edition using Hornby's old Lima tools.... 

[Lyddrail 2,192]

There are a lot of extra pieces on the new version, etched grilles, etched cab front steps, moulded brake cylinders on the bogies, sand boxes on the bogies, several pipe runs under the battery box and the diesel tank, and the roof insert over the old style exhaust. All of these items will be hand fitted in the factory.

Cheers.

[Roy Langridge 3,226]

3 hours ago, JSpencer said:

 

Both the latest 33/0 with headlight and previous version without have etched grills. From an assembly point of view there is utterly no difference. On the other hand, using 2 different sets of tools for the body will increase production time. Unless Heljan gave Gaugemaster their very old first run 33/0 which has a few less parts and etches, but who in 2020 wants a special edition old tooling with the flattened roof that can be picked up cheaply off a certain auction site? It would be like doing a special edition using Hornby's old Lima tools.... 

 

I wonder if Heljan had a load of unpainted old body shells?

 

Roy

[JSpencer 3,305]

14 hours ago, Lyddrail said:

There are a lot of extra pieces on the new version, etched grilles, etched cab front steps, moulded brake cylinders on the bogies, sand boxes on the bogies, several pipe runs under the battery box and the diesel tank, and the roof insert over the old style exhaust. All of these items will be hand fitted in the factory.

Cheers.

 

Compare to their original release yes. Knowing that Heljan have now tooled up the 33/0 three times, the last two sets of tools have exactly the same number of pieces. 

In the photo below:

Top - Heljans first attempt at the 33/0 with no etches

Middle - Heljans second attempt at a 33/0 with etches, this tooling is now more than  5 years old

bottom - Heljans third attempt and latest tooling which came out this year

 

 Both Middle and bottom use the exact same numbers of parts. Now if Gaugemaster (of which I have not seen an image yet and their website in its new version is awful to explore) used the Top/oldest tooling to save costs, then they chose the crudest version. Middle uses as many parts and etchings as the bottom latest one, and be a bargain! 

 

 

This photo shows a close up of the etches from the middle (2nd 33/0) and bottom (latest 33/0) showing both have as many parts:

 

 

 

[Lyddrail 2,192]

My comments relate to the new model and the newer model, Gaugemaster used the old body & model which has much fewer detail parts and no etches, that is why it was cheaper and not as fine. 

Cheers

[JSpencer 3,305]

1 hour ago, Lyddrail said:

My comments relate to the new model and the newer model, Gaugemaster used the old body & model which has much fewer detail parts and no etches, that is why it was cheaper and not as fine. 

Cheers

 

Ah, finally found photos of the Gaugemaster ones. Indeed they have gone and dug out the very first tooling Heljan did. How weird.

[dj_crisp 1,531]

1 hour ago, JSpencer said:

 

Ah, finally found photos of the Gaugemaster ones. Indeed they have gone and dug out the very first tooling Heljan did. How weird.

 

It is rather bizarre. Not sure I'd have gone for it if I was GM but then again they seemed to sell OK. Thing is now I'll just expect old stuff if they release more and won't look.

 

At least the side grille is improving with each version released! Still rather liked the moulded one tbh as I feel I just want to replace the new one with an shawplan etch.. same goes for the roof fan.

[JSpencer 3,305]

7 minutes ago, dj_crisp said:

 

At least the side grille is improving with each version released! Still rather liked the moulded one tbh as I feel I just want to replace the new one with an shawplan etch.. same goes for the roof fan.

 

Indeed I quite liked the molded side grills on the old one, over the etches of the Mk II 33/0. But the latest etches of the mk III 33/0 are far better overall.

As for the roof fan (unchanged over the mkII vs Mk III as far as I can tell), I prefer these over the molded roof fan grill (where you cannot see a fan neither) of the Mk I.  The fans were I feature I remember of these locos when I was young.

 

The Mk I 33s used to come with two sets of snow ploughs, one covering all 3 sections (left, right and middle) and one with the middle left off so you can fit a coupling. I wonder if the gaugemaster ones have these? (the new 33/1s which did have them, don't now).

 

 

Edited July 3, 2020 by JSpencer

[dj_crisp 1,531]

2 hours ago, JSpencer said:

 

Indeed I quite liked the molded side grills on the old one, over the etches of the Mk II 33/0. But the latest etches of the mk III 33/0 are far better overall.

As for the roof fan (unchanged over the mkII vs Mk III as far as I can tell), I prefer these over the molded roof fan grill (where you cannot see a fan neither) of the Mk I.  The fans were I feature I remember of these locos when I was young.

 

The Mk I 33s used to come with two sets of snow ploughs, one covering all 3 sections (left, right and middle) and one with the middle left off so you can fit a coupling. I wonder if the gaugemaster ones have these? (the new 33/1s which did have them, don't now).

 

 

 

Very interesting that there were two types of snowploughs. I've only seen the one (full)

 

Not related to this topic Im just about to attempt to fit some ploughs but I mount kadees on the buffer beams so have run out of space.

[Matabiau 189]

Has anyone else suffered from short circuits between left and right wheels on their new class 33? I have just received 33021 and there appears to be a short somewhere on the PCB as the pickups are cleary independent, but a mulitmeter shows a short between opposite wheels.

Edited July 5, 2020 by Matabiau
punctuation

[JSpencer 3,305]

14 hours ago, Matabiau said:

Has anyone else suffered from short circuits between left and right wheels on their new class 33? I have just received 33021 and there appears to be a short somewhere on the PCB as the pickups are cleary independent, but a mulitmeter shows a short between opposite wheels.

 

I had the pins going through the plug into the chassis block on a class 23 once!

[adb968008 11,523]

11 hours ago, JSpencer said:

 

I had the pins going through the plug into the chassis block on a class 23 once!

Class 26’s once had a batch like this.

 

The chassis block used on the 26/27/33 sits high in the body, and a chip / blanking plate can be pushed into contact with the block causing a short.

 

Way to mitigate (*if*) this is the case, is to lift out the pcb from the rubber lugs holding it, and add electrical tape on the top of the block running under the Pcb).

 

 

[Eden Road TMD 119]

Bought another 33 at the weekend. One of the Gaugemaster limited editions, 33025 in BR blue.

[Mark201 8]

I have been running my two new 33/0 this week (33 021 and 33 026). I noticed that after some time the lights were dimming as well as the headcode light. The roofs felt warm to the touch and i had noticed a a faint burning smell. I took the bodies off to investigate. What I found was that the bulb had got so hot that it had started to melt the clear plastic bar that transmits the light from the bulb. The bulb was also quite black. I had a couple of spare bulbs in the spares box and fitted them and all is now well. I wonder what might have caused this? The only thing I can think of is that the track voltage is too high. I run Lenz set 100 which comes factory set to 16V. This seems a little high to me and a bit of research revealed that the 'ideal' voltage for OO DCC is 14.5V. I have lowered the voltage on the Lenz DCC system to 14.5V to see if it makes a difference. Has anybody else had this issue? Could there be a different reason for the bulbs overheating and melting the clear plastic light bar? Any suggestions are welcome.

 

Mark

[TomScrut 2,105]

6 hours ago, Mark201 said:

I have been running my two new 33/0 this week (33 021 and 33 026). I noticed that after some time the lights were dimming as well as the headcode light. The roofs felt warm to the touch and i had noticed a a faint burning smell. I took the bodies off to investigate. What I found was that the bulb had got so hot that it had started to melt the clear plastic bar that transmits the light from the bulb. The bulb was also quite black. I had a couple of spare bulbs in the spares box and fitted them and all is now well. I wonder what might have caused this? The only thing I can think of is that the track voltage is too high. I run Lenz set 100 which comes factory set to 16V. This seems a little high to me and a bit of research revealed that the 'ideal' voltage for OO DCC is 14.5V. I have lowered the voltage on the Lenz DCC system to 14.5V to see if it makes a difference. Has anybody else had this issue? Could there be a different reason for the bulbs overheating and melting the clear plastic light bar? Any suggestions are welcome.

 

Mark

 

Hmm I may reduce the brightness on my decoder just to be on the safe side. I have a white Z21 so I can't adjust voltage.

[Marcoblanco 199]

Anybody had problems with new 33 lights? Can't get mine to work on a new weathered blue 012.. Is there something I'm missing, do I need a special decoder? 

 

Mark

[meatloaf 357]

On 10/07/2020 at 23:59, Mark201 said:

I have been running my two new 33/0 this week (33 021 and 33 026). I noticed that after some time the lights were dimming as well as the headcode light. The roofs felt warm to the touch and i had noticed a a faint burning smell. I took the bodies off to investigate. What I found was that the bulb had got so hot that it had started to melt the clear plastic bar that transmits the light from the bulb. The bulb was also quite black. I had a couple of spare bulbs in the spares box and fitted them and all is now well. I wonder what might have caused this? The only thing I can think of is that the track voltage is too high. I run Lenz set 100 which comes factory set to 16V. This seems a little high to me and a bit of research revealed that the 'ideal' voltage for OO DCC is 14.5V. I have lowered the voltage on the Lenz DCC system to 14.5V to see if it makes a difference. Has anybody else had this issue? Could there be a different reason for the bulbs overheating and melting the clear plastic light bar? Any suggestions are welcome.

 

Mark

My 33 got very warm after extended use

[Kaput 290]

1 hour ago, Marcoblanco said:

Anybody had problems with new 33 lights? Can't get mine to work on a new weathered blue 012.. Is there something I'm missing, do I need a special decoder? 

 

Mark

 

Decoder the right way round? Its 8pin so wrong way can still work the motor but not lights.