Falcon in 7mm from heljan and other locomotives

[pete waterman]

Just on the tanks - there are two problems with them - the spring compensation doesn't work as the axil boxes stay where they are and ride up over the points, and there are no heat coils fitted and there would have to be. That aside there are lots of points to take into account with this traffic as it's far more complicated than you think. There are two fantastic books - I must have read each four or five times and I still don't know that much

 

[Somewhere near 81B]

I see tower have announced the warship has a RRP of £699 and are offering them for £550.

 

[Phill Dyson]

The RRP of £699 seems like a heck of a lot of money to me!

 

[Somewhere near 81B]

Phil
£550 seems a lot of money too......
Almost inclined to get Steve to pester Pete to produce a warship kit
Mark.

 

[Phill Dyson]

My next diesel will be a JLTRT diesel that's for sure!

 

[Osgood]

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The weight of this railcar is quite surprising - reckon it could handle 20 or so 16T minerals without breaking into a sweat!

 

[Compton castle]

It's a nice little thing. Mine have all gone, class 60 next.
I'd like to hear a rail car with sound installed if any ones done one

 

[Ressaldar]

Hi Steve,

I fitted the ESU Loksound from Howes to mine

sorry about the picture/video quality but I'm trying - not very well at the moment, to get to know my new camera (Lumix GX7) I'll have another try this week at the Club

cheers

Mike

 

[Compton castle]

I like that, the DMU's always add a nice alternative to the usual sounds

 

[Compton castle]

Here it is, wheels look good.
I'm taking pre orders

 

[Cliff Williams]

Very nice - I reckon a few of these will pass over my bench when they come out!

 

[Compton castle]

I expect they will Cliff, they will sound great with a good Chip and some of your speakers

 

[OzzyO]

Looks very red!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Steph Dale]

Looks very good - and they seem to have done well with the body/skirt join on this one; it must be a pain to design the tooling to keep such a joint neat.

Steph

 

[Osgood]

The flush glazing is the biz! Makes such a difference in this scale.

 

[Phill Dyson]

Great improvement on the Western.....got 3 Warships already though

 

[Brian Daniels]

Seeing as the cat is out of the bag so to speak here are a couple more pics of the pre-production model. The cab windows on this model fit from the outside and do have a nice finish to them. The bogies are nice with a good depth to the sideframes and the wheels are just right.

It's being painted BR Blue at the moment, surprise!

 

[Compton castle]

Blue??? Well I never!
Oh well look forward to seeing it painted.
One minor thing the hand rails below the front windows should have a centre bracket. As this is a pre pro I'm sure that it will get sorted.
I'm looking forward to these now and to modifying two of them.

 

[iploffy]

put me down for a couple of those.

 

[SteadyRed]

I've resisted Heljan so far, but that looks a cracker. Are they going to be available without numbers & names?