7mm Heljan news

[clarky]

Steph

I think the view here is that the bigger Severn Mill plates (the top ones) are correct and that the Guilplates as fitted by Tower are where the Horlicks was made.

Or have I misunderstood you?

G

 

[clarky]

All my 52s have Severn Mill Plates (although they are the narrower ones as carried by all locos apart from Enterprise) and they look spot on.

 

[Cliff Williams]

The new larger plate is better. I should have checked before I fitted the Guilplates on the loco (Tower did not fit them they leave you to do it) as they do look too small.
One more pic I found http://www.flickr.com/photos/55184015@N00/85274064/

This is the loco with original Guilplates on it:

 

[Compton castle]

Here's mine from Severn mill temp fixed with blue tac.

 

[alcazar]

My book on the Westerns states that the plates fitted to D1000 were of a non-standard larger size. The rest of the fleet had the smaller plates.

 

[Cliff Williams]

Here are some shots of D1000 with the Severn Mill Plates on. Very pleased with them!
Apologies for the number of pics, a little bit of light came out on a windy day.

 

[Compton castle]

Spot on cliff

 

[clarky]

Looking great Cliff

What paint did you use to weather the bogies?

They look spot on.

G

 

[Cliff Williams]

Its a mixture of colours courtesy Martyn Welch, need to go and have a look again.
Humbrol Satin black on the wheels first then some other doses of crap to bring it up to a light traffic level.

 

[clarky]

Excellent! - Thanks for that.

Proper job!

 

[43179]

That's very lovely - don't forget to polish the paint of the wheel hubs and rims

jon

 

[Cliff Williams]

Jury is out on the rims Jon! I know they should be polished but I think they would look better that way if the wheel profile was a little beyyer. Plus the crap soon covered them up. I will keep looking for pics if D1000 then decide what to do.

 

[clarky]

Not when the wheels are dirty!

they look just right as they are.

 

[Compton castle]

Any good mate ??

 

[Cliff Williams]

CHeers thanks Steve!
Obvious when clean - then bloomin hard to see the polishing.

 

[clarky]

How could BR let their premier fleet get into the state they did??

Great for modelling, but trully terrible!

I guess it means that no matter how much we weather our locos, there were always some real ones that looked even worse!!

Fabulous photos!

G

 

[Jim S-W]

This Heljan news posted on facebook yesterday...

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Steve

Um. One red tail light isn't prototypical though. Oil lamp, yes, electric tail light, no.

I know on hymeks and warships the white marker and red light were used while shunting in station limits (all 4 on together) and assume westerns were the same?

(sorry if that's been covered before)

Jim

 

[Jim S-W]

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Here's mine from Severn mill temp fixed with blue tac.

Looking at the prototype pic both are wrong. Ones too small the other too big (compare with the panels on the underframe)

Hth

Jim

 

[Compton castle]

This is the picture I used For the positioning, looks good to me but I suppose with out the original plate to physically measure I can't be 100 percent certain. It's far better than the guilplates version.

 

[alcazar]

The lion and wheel would benefit from being cast, or stamped, from whitemetal, IMHO, as would the foxes for Silver Fox and the Falcons for ....Falcon.

The etched lion and wheel doesn't do it for me. Forget the plates size might be slightly out, the lion and wheel just does not work.