RMweb Gold Gilbert Posted February 25, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 25, 2015 Perhaps Heljan is a Danish company with an Irish background Have you not heard of the O'Heljans from Donegal...oh dear... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Fitness Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 Got my tankies today. No complaints about the wagons but do the boxes have to be 3 times the size of the wagon? Hooooj! JF 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gridwatcher Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 On the tanks front I spoke to the Haljan lads at Glasgow and they assured me that there were 'meant' to be be transfers sheets in the wagons packs for renumbering/numbering of Molasses tanks etc etc?? Not sure whether we will ever get them now or phone Steve at Railtec and get him on that case? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Gilbert Posted March 19, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 19, 2015 No transfers in mine - I think Railtec are looking into suitable sheets but if they weremeant to be supplied it would be nice to have them Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve fay Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 Nothing was supplied in the ones that past through me, I shall enquire direct at Heljan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobster Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 Was there any mention of transfers to be Included in the VAA/OAA wagons etc for renumbering - None in mine. Cheers, Bob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve fay Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 Just heard from the boss & they did discuss doing transfers but decided against. I would recommend Steve at Railtec for transfers 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Gilbert Posted March 19, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 19, 2015 Nothing was supplied in the ones that past through me, I shall enquire direct at Heljan Hattons have said this to me: I have checked the similar B tanks we have in stock and unfortunately all of them are unnumbered and do not come with number sheets or transfers. It is to my understanding that for whatever reason Heljan have not included them on any of these models. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railtec-models Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 Was there any mention of transfers to be Included in the VAA/OAA wagons etc for renumbering - None in mine. Cheers, Bob. Hope this is ok with the Moderators! Hi Bob, there are 7mm sheets available for both the VAA and OAA. In an attempt to try to stay on the right side of forum etiquette we won't post a link, but simply say that they can be found on the web site (link should be in the signature). As for the B tanks, these are coming. We're looking at numbers in the 33nn and 35nn ranges, as well as the Molasses. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian daniels Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 Don't forget to put some number 4's to go in-front of the 33xx numbers that happened in later life. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railtec-models Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 Don't forget to put some number 4's to go in-front of the 33xx numbers that happened in later life. Thanks Brian! Glad you pointed this out. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmrspaul Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 (edited) Transfer are already available from Cambridge Custom Transfer as Sheet BL9. http://www.cctrans.org.uk/products.htm They didn't have much lettering in later life http://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/essobtankwagonvb Paul Edited March 19, 2015 by hmrspaul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railtec-models Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 (edited) Don't forget to put some number 4's to go in-front of the 33xx numbers that happened in later life. As it appears that there is a demand for just numbers, we've designed the would-be pack below which is sufficient to (re/)number 7 x 35t B tanks in the diag 6/002 series, so that's running numbers (4)3301 thru (4)3963. In an attempt to achieve added realism the pack includes the earlier as-built font and the later BR influenced variant, most noticeable on the angled 3s. If you look closely there are also some instances where there are slight differences in the leading 4 to denote that this was simply added to the existing number at a later date. Also included are LUBE OIL / LUBE TRAFFIC ONLY. For those just requiring the 3nnn numbers, the intent is that you can just cut off the leading 4. Would this pack help to begin with? We can look at the markings (and numbers) specific to the Molasses variants next. Edited March 19, 2015 by railtec-models 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Gilbert Posted March 20, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 20, 2015 Great stuff - when will they be available? Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railtec-models Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 Great stuff - when will they be available? Chris We could have them very very quickly. One after-thought we had was replacing the LUBE OIL markings with the wagon number plates (i.e. the oval yellow disc). Thoughts? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Gilbert Posted March 20, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 20, 2015 We could have them very very quickly. One after-thought we had was replacing the LUBE OIL markings with the wagon number plates (i.e. the oval yellow disc). Thoughts? That I like Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railtec-models Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 That I like Here you go folks. We've replaced the LUBE OIL markings with the perhaps more useful yellow disc wagon IDs as applied to the solebar. We thought we should before someone picked us up on it, because somebody would have A short run of these has just been printed this afternoon and so they are available now. We'll refrain from posting a direct link to the product here but they can be found on our web site, a general link benig found in the signature. We're on that many forums that the finer details of the T&Cs do get muddy for us! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmrspaul Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 Here you go folks. We've replaced the LUBE OIL markings with the perhaps more useful yellow disc wagon IDs as applied to the solebar. We thought we should before someone picked us up on it, because somebody would have A short run of these has just been printed this afternoon and so they are available now. We'll refrain from posting a direct link to the product here but they can be found on our web site, a general link benig found in the signature. We're on that many forums that the finer details of the T&Cs do get muddy for us! Hi have you any evidence for TOPS plates with only the four figure number? I believe you will find all of the yellow TOPS plates had the five figure number. Before that the Esso number would have been on a small cast ownership plate. Paul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railtec-models Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 (edited) Hi have you any evidence for TOPS plates with only the four figure number? I believe you will find all of the yellow TOPS plates had the five figure number. Before that the Esso number would have been on a small cast ownership plate. Paul There's a photo in Tourret on p146 which seems to indicate the earlier 4-digit variant with the yellow plate (I seem to recall seeing others as well, perhaps Larkin). Always open to be shown otherwise however, and if something needs to change then we'll change it. Edited March 20, 2015 by railtec-models 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Fitness Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 Lovely stuff! I have a few of these tank wagons to do...is your website OK? can't get on at the mo... JF Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railtec-models Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 Lovely stuff! I have a few of these tank wagons to do...is your website OK? can't get on at the mo... JF Should be Jon as there have been a few orders this eve and a few people on it right now. Try it and PM me if any problems. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Fitness Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 Ah got it now. It went to a maintenance page a couple of times first though. Cheers JF 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Gilbert Posted March 20, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 20, 2015 All just worked for me Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 (edited) Anybody got any advice, pictures or directions on how to fit the supplied door chains on the OAA Opens?? Edit :- beyond the bleeping obvious of gluing the one end link with the 'sticking out bit' in each hole... Edited March 21, 2015 by F-UnitMad Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeavyDuty Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 Anybody got any advice, pictures or directions on how to fit the supplied door chains on the OAA Opens?? Edit :- beyond the bleeping obvious of gluing the one end link with the 'sticking out bit' in each hole... I didn't know the Soo had OAAs... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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