Moley48

Thanks Dave. We really appreciate the info and photos . Lovely layout and space.

I am in the same position and expect a DHL email tomorrow morning saying that the parcel is out for delivery between such and such a time. :) Cannot wait!

This is great. I would love to know more about your lighting setup? The way you have captured some of your scenes its almost like you are outside in natural light!

What I mean by that is small individual and intricate parts put together by hand and as models get more and more detail the more likely we are to see issues. Bottom line is I can live with it despite being disappointed and wanted to see if this was a common thing.

Thanks for the comments guys. It's reassuring to know that this sort of thing is not common with Heljan.

I take your points and have contacted the retailer. I just think given the way these models are manufactured replacements wont be any better.. Seems to me too much detail not enough attention and poor qc. Hopefully we are just unlucky twice.

Cracked grille surround. So am I expecting too much from a brand new model?

Hi, We have a class 25 and a class 33 Heljan 00 model and to be honest both are below par quality rise. Wonky buffer beams, broken grilles and other poorly fitted parts that have put me right off the whole brand. It's one thing to offer high detail but when some of that detail comes damaged or incorrectly applied what is the point. Sorry to rant but these models are well below what I would expect. Anyone else have a similar experience of Heljan? Rant over.. Moley

Please excuse the phone pics. These are the chairs we've made that replicate code 75 FB reasonably well. Plus a little extra thickness to keep things from breaking up. We are experimenting with a 3d printed vice adapter that hopefully will allow vees to be completed using a mini chop saw. We shall see! ps. I've ordered some ABS-Like resin.

Hello Martin, thanks for your reply and thankyou for templot. We will donate tomorrow as we really value your efforts - Templot has made our lives much, much easier. I think I might have to adopt your plug style for my timbers and modify my chairs to suit. So yes, the chairs I made myself and are loosely based on the peco 75 FB chairs. It was difficult with resin to get a good scale and good strength initially but getting somewhere now. Keeping things simplistic for now as this is our first piece of trackwork albeit a rather ambitious piece of trackwork for a beginner but we like to challenge ourselves and my dad has some previous experience of making points about 40+ years ago. He knows the railway and I know the modern tech, ish. So far I have made check rail, slide and standard from resin. Its quite amazing what a sub £200 resin printer is capable of although in an ideal world we would like to substitute a little of the hardness of resin for something a little less brittle. I guess beggars cant be choosers.

Thankyou guys, I did check out Martins post on experimental chairs. Bascially epoxy resin or superglue are known to be the best options which makes life harder but not impossible. C&L have code 83 flatbottom which may be something I could use but at the moment I think as this is to be used in the fiddle yard and not necessarily for its visual quality we may just use copper clad sleepers. I will check out your thread, Ian for inspiration.

Hi, This is Our first post on the forum and I need some advice on track building. Well I'm helping my Dad build a layout and we are currently making a long scissor crossing to go into our fiddle yard. I've managed to make and print some fairly simple chairs to suit our peco code 75 flatbottom rail aswell as laser cut our timbers from ceiba ply which looks reasonably good having placed it onto our templot template. The issue I have right now is finding a solvent potent enough to get the resin chairs to "weld" to the ply. Having tried and failed with a few things already i'm hoping someone has the answer or if not can point me in the direction of plastic chairs available that suit code 75 flatbottom rail. Thanks Moley