hatttons heljan ltd ed

[Redkiterail]

From Hattons website:

 

 

3318v2 Class 33/0 diesel D6517 in BR plain Green livery. Limited Edition of 500 74.00 Link 3318W Class 33/0 diesel D6526 in BR plain Green livery (weathered). Limited Edition of 500 79.00 Link 4791 Class 47 diesel 47508 'S.S. Great Britain' in BR blue livery. Limited Edition of 500 74.00 Link 4794 Class 47 diesel 47555 'The Commonwealth Spirit' in BR blue livery (weathered). Limited Edition of 500 79.00 Link 4790 Class 47 diesel D1501 in BR 2 tone green with small yellow panel (as preserved at East Lancashire Railway) Ltd Ed of 500 74.00 Link 4793 Class 47 diesel D1661 'North Star' in BR Green livery with full yellow ends (weathered). Limited Edition of 500 79.00 Link 4792 Class 47 diesel D1916 (47812) in Riviera Trains "Heritage" BR Green livery with full yellow ends. Limited Edition of 500

74.00 Link 5301W Class 53 diesel D0280 'Falcon' in BR two tone green with small yellow panels (weathered). Limited edition of 500 99.00 Link

[Pete Piszczek]

The main page:

 

http://www.ehattons.com/newsdetail.aspx?id=27

 

I bet those green Falcon's go quick, although if I were Hattons I'd tell the factory I wanted them barely past 'pristine'. Nothing worse than a heavy handed, poorly done, weathered limited edition, IMO.

 

Do you suppose they will take the opportunity to fix the mirrored tank sides? That change alone might count it as a limited edition, without taking the chance of upsetting the collectors out there who bought the last green one...

 

Is it just my perception, or are all new Heljan offerings 'commissions'?

[owentherail]

Yes, like the look of 47555 in blue but not sure of it weathered esp Heljan style, it was usualy quite clean so mite have to get 47508 instead.

[97403_Ixion]

Hi,

there is also a second Falcon / D0280 - in Original Lime green and weathered.

 

Lime Green D0280, weathered

 

Cheers, Ixion.

[brushman47544]

Oh dear...

 

Pictures/drawings of the new L/E Class 47s are now up on the Hattons website. Hopefully not the final liveries, because the position of the nameplates for the BR Blue variants 4791 (47508 SS Great Britain) and 4794 (47555 The Commonwealth Spirit) is wrong. They are shown in the lower position for the original WR nameplates, not the correct higher position.

 

Hopefully this has been spotted by Hattons and corrected before production. Having said that, clean removal of Heljan's nameplates is easy so fitting cast nameplates in the correct position shouldn't be a problem - at least on the unweathered version.