jools39

Top pics and setting is wonderful. Just great to see - the memories come flooding back! Thanks!

Just out of curiosity did he say why no singles after all the fuss people have made about this?

I only just found this thread after seeing an advert for them elsewhere. For me the problem is not whether to order some, but how many? I think the downside of such orders is the lump sum innvolved, as whilst I dont have a problem with them selling them in pairs, as I want a fair few, forking out say £1000 (or £2000 for sound fitted locos) in one go hurts a lot more than spending £100 (£200) a month over 10 months. I know it adds up to the same, but the initial outlay hurts a lot more! They will all be BR Blue, although this will obviously entail renumbering many of them which is a shame, and a choice of numbers would be nice. I think the £100 per loco is reasonable for a detailed, correct model and even if Heljan were to make some down the line I suspect they would be at least this? The currently available models which, whilst cheaper, require an amount of work which adds to the cost in both parts and time, so I dont think they are particulary expensive when this is taken into account. One thing I am curious to see is that as one of the Construction livery locos is to be 33050 will it have its unique cut out above the coupling? This was the only one like that and it can be seen in the picture of it on the page for these versions. It would seem a bad choice for this reason, as I doubt it will be done and if it is it makes renumbering a non starter if you want to keep in accurate which is surely a big part of spending out for these models?