Gary H
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On 30/11/2022 at 16:18, woodenhead said:
Another one here at Birmingham - in this video there are also some refurbished 50s still in blue but with their headlights fitted.
Some more proper vac noise courtesy of 50024 at Paddington.
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On 24/11/2022 at 20:35, Accurascale Fran said:
And I'll bet you'll also fit the earlier type to the pre-refurb examples no doubt!
(some of them slipped through refurb with these still fitted, 50005 being one off the top of my head)
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If they get these angles right and it looks like they have, Ill be having a good few of these!!
No one has managed it so far, Heljan was close but but it still wasn't right.
What's surprising with these is the windscreen corners are not 90 degrees which is how the dropped down look of the screens is accomplished.
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Does anyone know where I can get a pair of the above please? 00 scale.
Generic headlight casting/ moulding as seen on 37/47/45 etc etc.
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The bogie frames are a simple clip-fit.
This chap does it on a 37 but its essentially the same bogie.
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133 already showing as sold out at Hattons!
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20 hours ago, 97406 said:
I’d argue the Heljan 50 looks closer than the Hornby one.
It is indeed but its still far from right! I have a cab from a real one to remind of it every day.😉
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21 hours ago, YesTor said:
On the O gauge front, the Class 40 and 37 look distinctly 'wrong' from the front end view - Heljan really do not seem to be able to capture the windscreen areas of these 'bonnet' designs convincingly. The 56 and 60 again look distinctly 'off' at first glance - odd angles around the windscreen areas on the latter, a general look of 'quirkiness' etc etc. Virtually the whole range appears to be a mish-mash of errors that could have been avoided.
You can add the 50 cab front to the list aswell, the front windscreen area is some way off too.
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1 hour ago, GD said:
And seem happy to run on narrow gauge track
Its a bugbear of mine to be honest. 20 years ago I dabbled in EM but was continuously frustrated with the availability and cost of wheels and endless hours building track.
I can see why many shy away from such things and are just happy with the compromise.
I looked around the net a few months ago and see the cost for such things has doubled, personally, there's no way I could entertain EM or P4 nowadays.
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3 hours ago, roythebus1 said:
What amazes me about threads such as this is how pedantic today's modellers are about small details on locos yet can't be bothered to close-couple coaching stock.
Having come across from a H0 North American based layout back (again) to British practise, I'm having a hard time dealing with tension locks and whole world of **** that brings!!
I've been spoilt by lovely scale head Kadee knuckle couplers and the associated ease of use and close coupling for the last 15 years and very much want to recreate that in 00.
I am glad to be back though but its certainly a challenge to reach the same degree of finesse whilst also getting it all to actually run reliably!
I have some rakes of wagons semi-permanently coupled using the 3 link instanter and plan on a more suitable method for coaching stock eventually with a couple of options being pondered.
For the ease of cost and time, I've opted to live with the rail spacing issue for now.😉
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47 experts please.
Could I renumber 435 to 525 ??
I note as built, 435 had fixed 3 part rad grills as apposed to the Serck shutters on 525.
How is 435 modelled ?
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Its a no from me sadly.
I had hopes but...
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On 13/08/2022 at 22:42, aureol40012 said:
This seems to be happening with increasing frequency and severity, and it seems to have got worse since all the Eastern Europeans went home after you know what…. It’s almost as if our home grown couriers are less trustworthy, perish the thought.
I had a £800 laptop from Amazon stolen TWICE. First time the old switcheroo with something of equal weight. Second time the replacement laptop was apparently dropped off (including photo of it in my porch) but my security camera showed the driver then took it back to his van, putting it in his cab…….
Have to ask, wonder what would have happened if you didn't have the CCTV??!
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Some more expectation V reality pricing............
Damaged headcode plus a non prototypical nameplate that looks like it was stuck on using evostik by somebody wearing boxing gloves.
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6 hours ago, adb968008 said:
So there we have it…
£139 for a body
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195265610259?hash=item2d76bcc213:g:QfMAAOSwFati6-YB
I think thats a new record for a diesel body, previously set by the Bachmann sealed beam class 45 a few years ago.
There are so many questions, like, where's the rest of it?😀
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16 hours ago, zoomer1979 said:
Hi Gary,
Interested to know what is non compliant about the MS450. I have found Zimo drive control to be superior right out the box, whereas the ESU needs quite a bit of tweaking to get it silky smooth.
Neil.
Hi Neil, it wont consist!! You have to go into a particular CV that manages the consist address and input the consist address number you generated when you made up the consist. That's is the workaround that I found after doing some digging. Its all to do with the amount of packets that the DCC controller sends versus the amount the decoder is looking for hence it wont consist via conventional means. The previous Zimo that Bachmann were using, in the new tool Class 20 for example, didn't have this problem.
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14 minutes ago, younGGuns7 said:
Didn’t this get answered in another thread when you asked 🤷🏻♂️
Didn't see it in my notifications, now answered it.
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2 hours ago, Graham_Muz said:
These totally new tooled models have absolutely no connection with any Lima models of the past and will have brass axle bearings. Why would you assume that Heljan models are not so designed?
Plenty of them have no bearing's, the Class 86 and Class 16 are two that don't off the top of my head. Was quite alarmed to see it (or the lack of) when I removed the base keeper plate from an 86, supposedly a high end model but instead akin to a Limby. Everybody else seems to be engineering this simple feature into their models drive train these days, it cant be that hard. Bachmann have been doing it on their diesels for about 20 years now.
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Will this new model have brass axle bearings in the bogies like Bachmann etc ??
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3 minutes ago, 55020 said:
I think you meant to say that the Accurascale 37 has them attached to the chassis, the same as Bachmanns.
Sounds like 40002 has made a small error in judgement, that cost him more for less 😉
Thanks for that fella, a senior moment!!😊
Now edited.
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On 07/08/2022 at 14:36, 40002 said:
After the experience of the Accurascale Deltics, apart from bits falling off on one of them, the bogie chains are just plain badly thought out in my view, hence I have ordered the plain Blue Bachmann even though its a bit more expensive.
AS 37 has them attached to the chassis, the same as Bachmann's. AS' second run of Deltics will also have them fitted to the chassis.
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Have these models got proper brass axle bearings like Bachmann etc or are we still going with the Lima way of doing things from 1980?
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3 minutes ago, TomScrut said:
This is a shame for me as I prefer ESU. Bachmann seem inconsistent with who they choose for sound. Maybe to keep them both on their toes?
As it is, the MS450 is not NMRA compliant. Bachmann seem to have moved over to Zimo now. Why not have a drop down menu when purchasing- Zimo or ESU, no big deal you'd have thought!
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I noticed from the YouTube video on these models, Bachmann are using the Zimo MS450,
at this stage, this decoder will not consist as I've just found out and is a known issue.
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Class 50, By Accurascale
in Accurascale / Irish Railway Models
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Ah, missed that one, sorry.