Falcon in 7mm from heljan and other locomotives

Overseer

Western Thunderer
I don't usually comment on models of prototypes I know nothing about but I agree that the windscreen angle looks different. The other problem in this area is that the drivers drop down has been made wider so it looks like a square instead of a vertical rectangle. Have they lengthened the cabs to provide clearance for the bogies around the fairings?
 

JimG

Western Thunderer
Don't run. I agree - and I usually loathe it if people get really 'picky' about models, but sometimes things really do stand out at first glance as being wrong, without needing micrometers and overlaid lines on pictures to prove it. To me this is one such error.

I agree as well. I looked at the shape of the smaller side window and I reckoned that the ratio of the length of the top to the bottom differed between prototype and model. But I would keep well out of arguments since it wouldn't really fit in a pre-Group layout. :)

Jim.
 

alcazar

Guest
I no longer post on here, but felt I would reply to the above.
Having looked at quite a few photos of Falcon I reckon the driver's drop down window IS square, or as near as makes no difference. The "OO" gauge model got it wrong.

Comparing photos of the pre-production and the real thing from roughly the same angle, I can't see the probs with the windscreens either, if anything is wrong, the nose top may be too sharply angled, might be more rounded?
 

Phill Dyson

Western Thunderer
I hate getting picky about models too, especially when we haven't seen it in the flesh. The Heljans screens look a little too vertical to me as well , but this is on the evidence of a couple of pics, I would like to see 'side on' & 'end on' pics of the model and identical angled pics of the model to compare with pics of the real thing before anyone becomes judge & jury on this model though.

This loco was like the holy grail to a lot of us 1970's spotters & I did catch up with her eventually........


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unlike Jordan I have every desire to own the beast & see it making Maybach Music on the Withercombe branch.....I would rather have a good kit though if it is not right for £560'ish
 

adrian

Flying Squad
The windscreens look too vertical.

I don't usually comment on models of prototypes I know nothing about but I agree that the windscreen angle looks different.

It may well be just the camera angle causing the perceived difference. The earlier prototype photos from Steve seem to match of a more vertical windscreen
http://www.westernthunder.co.uk/ind...nd-other-locomotives.3593/page-14#post-120496

Not quite the same view but flipped for comparison - I think you'd have to see it in the flesh to decide.
falcon_1.jpg
falcon_2.jpg
 

Jordan

Mid-Western Thunderer
For those out there that think the Heljan Warship front just does not look right you could always go for this one instead http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/O-Gauge-7...176?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item4881418188
Yeah - the one big problem with kits:- every opportunity for the builder to make a horlicks of it. See also a kit-built 7mm Deltic regularly listed by Rails of Shefield, which has windscreens that are definitely too vertical. Yours for just £495:00...!! :eek: :)
 

Compton castle

Western Thunderer
Falcon has arrived at Heljan HQ and will be shipped out over the next few days, Stocks of the original lime green And brown and also the BR blue are running low already
 
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