Hal Nail

Doesn't this all make the side window area bulge out even more now? I'm feeling better about my plan to hack up a Heljan 47 and see if i can correct it now!

Buy some replacements from Gaugemaster? Mine is boxed - not sure if I want to check now or not!

To clarify my comments, it was the surface finish I was referring to. I followed a few threads a while back and at that time you couldn't get an acceptable finish in 00 let alone 0. As I say it may have improved but aside from whether the designs are actually accurate - which you can at least gauge from the CADs - that's what I'd be concerned about

No but unless things have moved on considerably (which is of course perfectly possible given how technology advances), 3D printing quality could be poor in O gauge.

Rather like Eastenders, I've accidentally tuned into this thread and am now hastily moving on again.

Sounds like clever design to me. Maybe they should spend the savings on a marketing agency to work this up as a concept!

Im not getting them - might be my browser Opera killing them?

Well I like to help! Coincidentally thats what the boxes are called too.

I knew I'd seen one recently but just couldn't think where!

I dont know sorry - but someone on here will have them or a photo of their model Might be worth trying in the wanted section.

Tower have just had a restock from Parkside....

One on either bogie. Fantastic.

Gave the 33 a quick test today as I was about to put it up for sale. Sounds like it is derailed - I assume a split gear. Was perfect a month ago. I can see why people get so annoyed about Heljan now - resisting the temptation to take it apart when I'm still angry.

Someone did a thread on this not that long ago. Those clear plastic boxes that Hobby Craft sell with foam board dividers for stock

E140 and 145 respectively. The later E147s also common down that way. The Looe branch had an all third in the same family as "Airfix" B sets with 7ft bogies, which is what I was referring to. I've been toying with a cut and shut in 7mm from the Lionheart stock. A few corridor bow ended all thirds got used as supplementary coaches as well.

I may well be remembering diagrams wrong - will check again later Edit: I was thinking of c61/63 collett types whereas i now realise c83 is the later equivalent

Also Maroon, as opposed to carmine/crimson (red), was unlined initially and then lined later I dont think you've said which branch you are referring to but a few 4575s stayed in black to the end. Then there is the choice of BR logo - St Blazey certainly had a few lined early enough to have the lion and wheel, others went straight to totem. I'm not sure how common c83s were. A few photos around of one on the Looe branch but certainly not as widespread as the E140/145 brake composites or even the similar brake 3rds.

Where did you work them? I grew up in Southampton in the 70s/80s so we got 33s on Portsmouth to Bristol for a time plus some of the Bournemouth inter-regional trains, as far as the loco change at Reading. Your thread reminds me we must also have got these on oil trains from Fawley although I dont honestly remember seeing them.

Our replies crossed. I read that codes could be several things depending on which division and period (and then bars above the digits come into play as well). Definitely photos of C2 at Bournemouth but Plymouth local is more appropriate for my Bodmin theme!

Cheers I've forgotten now but there is a list online somewhere I found and for South West division it covered the Bournemouth area, along with 2C, depending on the class of train. D6509 was one of the ones transferred to Eastleigh and appears in a few of the photos I had.

33 now finished. I'll probably sell this on once hand delivery is possible but for now it proves I do occasionally finish things!

Might be bad luck but have had a bit of a break over the summer then the first 3 tins I've opened this week all had a skin on. I was going to ask if anyone decants paint into jars or anything like that to store?

Presumably they have had the same problem if they are only just starting to save now, 3 1/2 years after it was announced!

I doubt there will be any requirements: The pitfalls are so obvious they clearly dont care. I've just watched someone ride one along the platform flat out as a tube pulled in. When the doors opened and people got off, he was still going full tilt on the edge of the platform leaving everyone to dive out of the way. Beyond moronic, that's wilfully being anti social.

I suspect I may suffer from a deficiency of this.