Porcy Mane

29 minutes ago, Johan DC said:

Both the sound as the non-sound ones are sold out on pre-order

 Is there absolute confirmation of that? The Hornby website is ambiguous as ever just stating, "Unavailable".

Then there will be the stock allocated to the tier one retailers.

If it's delivered on time, it's at least over eighteen months away. Maybe just long enough for Bachmann to take a leaf out of Hornbys book and do a spoiler run. I note that Hornby have only used photographs of the prototype and not the model in all the pre-publicity.

Maybe I should have responded earlier by asking, "Is there a need for an accurate DP2?"

5 hours ago, adb968008 said:

But is there really a need for another DP2 ?

But is there really a need for another DP1 ?

Only time will tell.

8 hours ago, frobisher said:

That would be somewhat suicidal of Accurscale to try and gazunder Hornby at this stage, for the cost of tooling DP1 up, there's so many other locos they could produce with a larger potential market.

Well they are almost there with the tooling for DP2.

21 minutes ago, RapidoCorbs said:

As far as I know, the production ones match the Warley samples pictured.

Thanks for the reply. Looks like some modelling will be required.

Calling Mr Railtech...

Calling Mr Railtech...

That's a good list of traders. I note that a few of them were "standard" attendee's at the old Scalefour north.

With a scalefour  (North?) event now happening at Crewe just one week after Railex, and taking into account the current economic situation, it makes me wonder how many of those dual attendee traders will decide to only attend the more remunerative railex. 

23 minutes ago, Welchester said:

Do they expect a tip?

Maybe the sign-writer made a cock up?

2 hours ago, RapidoCorbs said:

Coming soon hopefully, hope to give an update when we have a firm date.

Are they on the Ferry?

(Serious head on)  The flying crate logo on the "Through the Continent by British Railways" version looks  a bit squashed in the vertical plane & elongated in the horizontal. Much like the doctored drawing part way down this page  https://www.igg.org.uk/gansg/4-rstock/04arstock9.htm  and referred to earlier in the thread.

Will 910003  (B787213) be delivered with a correctly proportioned flying crate (and without the end stanchions) or I'm I going to have to do some modelling?

1 hour ago, Enterprisingwestern said:

Lesley Welch eat your heart out!

Now there's a coincidence. I used to take the odd gill with Leslie Welch. This Leslie Welch was a splendid fellow who did a fine job of keeping the sewers of Durham City running freely.

If I remember correctly your Leslie Welch once stopped at my Leslie Welsh's B&B. My LW had many strings to his bow including a fine memory.

5 hours ago, Ruston said:

One of these?

That's the fella. Used to see one regularly when I was a nipper.

6 hours ago, Enterprisingwestern said:

Careful with the axe Eugene!

I'm no Keith Floyd. (Like all good chefs he never used an axe but he was proud of his knives).

1 minute ago, PaulRhB said:

description in your head- 

Not in my head. I'll be passing on this version. Now if they had done the industrialised job with platforms front and rear, I might have been tempted. In the meantime I'll be chopping up a Janus.

24 minutes ago, Roy Langridge said:

Yes, it was green. Photos show it in that colour with the same damage to the bonnet door. 

Eg OPC postcard no 82.

02003 at Allerton by Knox Family, on Flickr

1 minute ago, johndon said:

Undecided as yet but if you fancy converting it for me… 

Not as simple as it looks. 1.5 mm stub axles and combined bearing/pick up assemblies sees to that. Dunno if Branchlines does any wheels-sets that's suitable?

A lot of brass & iron has been turned into swarf so far.

58 minutes ago, johndon said:

As a follow up to this, Rails sent a replacement a couple of days ago. 

P4 next then?

11 hours ago, RFS said:

"We thank you for your message. When we scaled down to the model the angle of curve may look less but its correct calculations for scale down."

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, and etc., springs to mind.

6 hours ago, hmrspaul said:

That is this type and similar, this one many years after the car use, and has since been conserved

A couple of them were used in parcels traffic and still carrying their prominent "Anglo Scottish Car Carrier" branding on some of the lesser known Co. Durham branches until the end of stream.

As well as the ECML, I've seen phots of them in all regions on parcels duty e.g.

https://flic.kr/p/daAeYK

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the livery error on the Newton Chambers Maroon version. I'm making the assumption (dangerous, I know) the livery is meant to be Ex-works.

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Put an order in to Fox for some paint and transfers late Monday night.

Tuesday 9:00 am. Email from Fox and DHL "awaiting collection".

Wednesday 8:30 am. Email from DHL. "Your package has been delayed to next working day".

Wednesday 9:00 am. Email from Fox.  "Your order has shipped".

Wednesday 14:00 am. Email from DHL. "We have your Parcel".

Thursday 8:00 am. Email from DHL. "We're on our way. Delivery today between 12:33 and 13:33".

Thursday 12:38 pm. Email from DHL. "Your parcel is delivered".

...   and so it was. Not bad all things considered. Apparently, due to the 24 hour delay, I could claim a 10% compensation fee redeemable against any future packages I send.

I haven't seen an ad on RMweb for a few days. I think they stopped appearing about the time the wish list poll banner appeared?  Are we having a Christmas grace period?

Pity the wish-list poll making it's annual appearance, hasn't stopped wish list threads thinly veiled as general topics popping up elsewhere on RMweb.

2 minutes ago, melmerby said:

It all depends on how concientous the driver is.

 Or maybe how much pressure is put on him by his boss; and then how much pressure his boss is put under by his line manager ad infinitum until it reaches the end of the line were the computer gets the blame.

I ordered a single tin of Revel enamel from Frome Model Centre via ebay  (free postage) last Monday evening along with an ES1 from Rails of Sheffield. Rails did courier delivery, DPD 24 tracked for £4.00. ES1 turned up on Wednesday morning. I was surprised to find that the 14mm tinlet also arrived in the same DPD van. 

23 minutes ago, Michael Hodgson said:

Yes, but what other purposes do you intend using them for on that loco?

Just playing safe. I don't like the non standard differences between the sound & non sound next 18 interface. Driving the logic outputs of the non sound decoder via the shared speaker connections onto a attached speaker may not be harmful but to me, it's bad practice. It's not Heljans problem but the problem of the different standard between the sound and non sound Next 18 connector. 

As it's an electric loco  (in the prototype sense) for me, the fitting DCC sound is not a priority but by utilising the space that the speaker occupies to mount a Micro servo controlled via the decoder, I might just be able to get the pan to raise & lower. 

1 minute ago, johndon said:

Didn't take you long...

Big hammer.

Should anyone be interested in what's under the bonnet(s) of Heljans ES1.

4 hours ago, amdaley said:

Has anyone tried to fit a decoder in one of these yet ?

The four screws seem a bit awkward to get at because of the bogies getting in the way ? 

 

Heljans user manual is a bit vague on this. Looks like it was written early doors after EP's were examined. As a for instance; it talks about installation of a sugar cube speaker, but a speaker is fitted as standard. I'll probably be sticking a servo in it's place.

Access to the screws is made easier by "popping off" the collector shoe beams. They are not glued and have substantial spigots that enter the axle boxes. Good thing about this design, is that the beams can be replaced the correct way round with the collector shoe to the front. The cable runs will then need correcting though. One of my 4 "cables" were damaged & distorted so I have to make a replacement anyway. 

Beware the two bits of painted brass that constitute the upper flange of the solebars/frame girders. They are sandwiched between body and chassis and located on spigots. No glue used  (Hurrah!), so will probably fall off when upper body is removed from chassis.

The bogie is pivoted approximately above the inner axle so un-prototypically can be moved out of the way giving improved access to the cross-heads.

On DC, my example ran like a dog at low speed. Fitting of a Zimo MX18N transformed low speed performance. Probably not necessary but I disconnected the speaker as the non sound decoder can use the speaker connections for other purposes.  I had to make a few CV adjustments to get the cab light operating. I also dimmed all lights to a more suitable level and programmed the lighting for soft start.

The serious tools are coming out for the next bit of the strip down.

P