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Mmmm... god that Hymek looks good, top work!

Nice job John, of a beast of a prototype. I have an old Lima version of the same loco kicking about that I detailed up a bit. I may give it the vitrains treatment one evening to keep me occupied

As I stated in my post: http://nicwhe8.freeh...5705/start.html (Gallery page two, top pic of D5711) Looks like plain green with no wraparound windows to me

Looks like it, would prefer it to have the wraparound ones though.... http://nicwhe8.freehostia.com/d5705/start.html (Gallery page two, top pic of D5711)

Very interesting Peter! Did you get the sound via the Aussie Crossleys? They sound beastly!

That's great to hear D605Eagle, and keep up the good work! Would love to hear a Crossley one day having missed out on the ones here.

I've just ordered two, as delivered green and GSYP non weathered. In fairness to the price its a model with fairly limited appeal, small runs (compared to Hornby etc) and extra expense in tooling up two completely different bogie sideframes etc. Its not that much more than their class 14 which has been done in similar circumstances. Would be happy if a couple of quid from each sale was going towards the restoration of D5705 though (as Heljan have done with one of their Class 15's), it may get the old girl up and running long enough to get the makings of a good sound chip! I take it there is no estimated release date as of yet?

Super news, busy times ahead for Heljan, suprised Hattons dont have it advertised on their home page with a press release... Green non-weathered syp for me. ***EDIT - They have now, and I've ended up ordering two! Oh well.

Thanks for the info guys. I am hoping for the version Rails currently have on order as I've missed out on previous models and was about to purchase a Vi Trains 47 to respray. Hopefully they will go ahead with it.

very nice repaint, are Rails still doing their ltd edition of 47 145? I thought it would be out by now.

First I've seen of this and its very impressive, well done! Good to see there are trains running in Donegal after all!

Hattons now have pictures of the finished 14's on their website under the Heljan diesel section http://www.ehattons.com/stocklist/prodlist.aspx?ManID=27&PrTyID=1&ScID=1