Linners Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 Hi chaps, now in comparison to the 153/156, this model is easiler to take the chassis off. The first thing you will have to do is to remove the circuit / DCC board from inside the roof. The rest simply clips out by gently prising apart the body (this removes the cast seat weight) and then the chassis can upclip in much the same manor to the seat weight. However, if your heavy handed you could stress mark the plastic, and dont forget you invalidate the warranty, so be gentle. cheers Dave Thanks Dave!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dock Shunter Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 Hi Fella's........ My Green 121 arrived Saturday......absolutely stunning model.....oiled and ran it in everything working fine. Installed Lenz Silver Mini decoder and programmed address....lights working fine but the SMDs for the headcode boxes are lit but very dim and don't light up the headcodes. Has anybody else experienced this after installing a decoder.? Could this be something specific to the Lenz decoder? Would tweeking of any CVs solve the problem.........? Any help would be most apreciated........ Ste Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butler Henderson Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 Read some comments elsewhere of yellow panel green ones being labelled on the box ends as being the speed whisker version. Worth checking when ordering that the supplier can confirm what is actually in the box Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
orcadian Posted November 15, 2011 Share Posted November 15, 2011 I've just had a call from Hattons - they didn't get as many green with speed whiskers as they wanted/needed, and Dapol haven't got any more either, so it seems. I've accepted a green small yellow panel instead, which Hattons offered with an apology, but if you really still want green with speed whiskers from the first batch, I suggest you try shopping around fast! It's no ones fault (except my own), but Hattons told me a few days ago that the card on which I had pre-ordered had expired, and I left it a few days before I gave them the current card details. Had I responded instantly, I might have been near enough to the front of the queue to get the whiskered one. Richard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karhedron Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 I've just had a call from Hattons - they didn't get as many green with speed whiskers as they wanted/needed, and Dapol haven't got any more either, so it seems. My local model shop sold their entire allocation of whiskered ones on pre-order. I guess this livery goes with a lot of steam engines. Maybe scope for another run already? I guess when the 122s are produced, Dapol would do well to do slightly more in this livery. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andygif Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 i guess if you really want a speed whiskered one that badly, you could buy a dummy and any moterised one. Then do a body/mech swap and then sell the now demotorised one as a dummy?????? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karhedron Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 Sounds sensible, plenty of dummies still in stock. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butler Henderson Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 Recieved my speed whiskers one today - from Antics, it was cheaper than Hattons inc postage. Seems to be fast in comparison to the Bachfarish 101, also no instructions are provided re the detail parts - something Bachfarish were critised on in the past Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butler Henderson Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 My local model shop sold their entire allocation of whiskered ones on pre-order. I guess this livery goes with a lot of steam engines. Maybe scope for another run already? I guess when the 122s are produced, Dapol would do well to do slightly more in this livery. Still apparently in stock at Gaugemaster http://www.gaugemaster.com/item_details.asp?code=DAND118A Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
97403_Ixion Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 Hi Butler Henderson, if you weren't aware, some instructions are here, regarding oiling and running: http://www.Dapol.co.uk/images/stories/Class%20121-122%20Ins%20Sheet-r1.pdf ...but not detailing instructions. Cheers, Ixion. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold bcnPete Posted November 16, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 16, 2011 If anyone missed out on a motorised BR Blue one, I have just dispatched my 'duplicate' one back to Hattons so they might be listing '1 in stock' in the next 10 days...or whenever Spanish post takes to get there... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nharding99 Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 My local model shop sold their entire allocation of whiskered ones on pre-order. I guess this livery goes with a lot of steam engines. Maybe scope for another run already? I guess when the 122s are produced, Dapol would do well to do slightly more in this livery. The early 122s appeared in a lighter malachite green rather than darker multiple unit green so in my view this would make a very interesting whiskered livery. Cheers Nigel H Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butler Henderson Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 For anyone hunting a whiskers one I have noticed there is one presently on ebay (not mine I should add before anyone wonders) ending 2010 tomorow http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dapol-121-N-GAUGE-MOTORISED-/140643812203?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item20bf06436b The seller also has an unmotorised one ending 2001 tomorrow http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dapol-121-DUMMY-N-GAUGE-/140643805477?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item20bf062925 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RWJP Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 Those are BR Green with Small Yellow Panels, not Speed Whiskers. Ross Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butler Henderson Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Apologies - just glanced at the photo and ASSumed.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jbqfc Posted November 18, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 18, 2011 Email off hattons my NSE one is on the way Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butler Henderson Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 To make up for yesterdays blunder re the speed whiskers ones:- 5 available at http://www.modelrail...-with-whiskers/ 4 available at http://durhamtrainso...roducts_id=5955 No doubt more elsewhere once you look beyond Hattons etc Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
£1.38 Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 I see Hattons have the NSE version in stock now....Here Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Harbour Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 My Green with small yellow panel model arrived today, although it came in a re-labelled "Whiskers" box. No dramas there, I ordered the small yellow panel edition anyway. I do have a couple of questions about the model though: I fitted an NC040B light bar to it (yellow) but found that the light bar doesn't 'clip' in as such. It's held in place by the internal supports inside the unit and I just wondered whether this was 'as designed'. I will perform some amputations upon various figures to put some passengers inside it, but can you get into the driver's cabs to put a crew in place without taking the whole thing apart? Does the TCS EUN-651 chip fit or not? when I removed the roof - the chip looks too long to go into the available space and doesn't appear to be possible to install it directly without bending the pins on the chip. I'm just worried in case I break something! It's a superb model - after a light oiling as per the instructions it's running away quite happily on my rolling road awaiting the fitting of a DCC controller. Absolutely delighted with it. Fantastic Dapol! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nharding99 Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 Hi Fella's........ My Green 121 arrived Saturday......absolutely stunning model.....oiled and ran it in everything working fine. Installed Lenz Silver Mini decoder and programmed address....lights working fine but the SMDs for the headcode boxes are lit but very dim and don't light up the headcodes. Has anybody else experienced this after installing a decoder.? Could this be something specific to the Lenz decoder? Would tweeking of any CVs solve the problem.........? Any help would be most apreciated........ Ste Yes, I concur, adding a Lenz Silver Mini + has had the same effect for me, the headcodes are much dimmer than when it was running under DC, the head and tail lights are suitably bright. As I believe the decoder is only 2 function (one fn for motor control, the other for lighting) then I would have thought that this is likely to be a result of how the loco has been "wired" (how resistances have been balanced via the PCB) rather than something you can tweak using CVs - unless you were to go to the trouble of separating the lighting into 2 circuits and using a decoder with more functions where you could then apply brightness CVs to each lighting circuit. I haven't tried another make of decoder, it would be interesting to see what others have to say about this... Cheers Nigel H Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dock Shunter Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Thanks for taking the time to reply Nigel... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Harbour Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 Now that I have got my TCS EUN-651 fitted to the railcar, I can also confirm that the headcode boxes are not lit up either... It's really a minor thing, but once you know it's there... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
60163 Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 Were any powered BR green with whiskers models shipped, or shame on me for not having pre-ordered? I hadn't found them anywhere online since their release. Either this has been an extremely popular model or I really am too slow! I haven't even a layout yet but one of these would be absolutely gorgeous. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butler Henderson Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 Definately released but but seemed to go very quickly - I was trying to get one along with a Green Farish 101 from the same supplier but gave in and went elsewhere. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold D9020 Nimbus Posted January 8, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 8, 2012 They were shipped, but some in the wrong boxes—in my experience they are easier to find than the GSYP version. Townfoot Models of Hexham still had two the week before last, they might be worth a call but are closed Sundays and Mondays. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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