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Just ordered mine from AmiAmi in Japan at a price of 13860 JPY = 87 GBP each
https://www.amiami.com/eng/detail/?gcode=RAIL-30729
https://www.amiami.com/eng/detail/?gcode=RAIL-30730
Shipping to Switzerland is 15 GBP. Not much more than shipping from Britain.
In case I get them before they are avaliable in the UK, I can post some pictures ☺️
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Got my 3 locos yesterday. First of all: They look really beautifull; much nicer then captured by the pictures.
Exe and Taw were drowning in oil. After removing the oil from the wheels, they run nicely, even through old Roco-points. On both locos the front boogie electrical pickups don't work; I guess I'll remove them anyway.
Yeo run badly because only the rear boogie pickups (no driver, no front) worked. I had to send her back.
Looking closer at these engines, I think they are well engineered. Only the assembling is really careless and sloppy. Why doesn't Heljan sell these Locos as semi-kits? It would be easier to build up a chassis from good parts than to correct the mistakes from some incurious Chinese workers.
Cheers,
Georg
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