richard carr
Western Thunderer
The Heljan Class 47 locos have now arrived so here are some details from mine.
The first thing to say is that this, to my mind at least, is their most detailed model yet. There is a very detailed bogie, albeit making some of those parts fairly fragile, the same goes for pipe work around the fuel tanks etc. It is the best cab interior they have done too.
There are both clear and frosted front lights, nice snow ploughs and front steps that you need to add yourself , they are the parts on the black coloured sprues. There are 2 short pieces of wire which maybe NRN radio aerials and 2 othe other parts which I have no idea what they are.
All in all, it looks very good to me.
The first one I opened (the blue one) had a number of broken parts, nothing major, 2 of the bogie spring brake actuators, a guard iron and a vacuum pipe, all annoying but nothing that can't be fixed fairly easily. Part of the problem is that the models are getting well detailed, but that means fragile parts that need careful protection in the packaging. Thankfully the green one is fully intact.
Here ae the broken bits
Taking it apart was also easy, as usual there are 4 screws that need to be removed, these are accessible by moving the bogies to one side and all 4 came out easily, the body then lifts off easily and you should remove the fan connection from the PCB to fully separate them. So here's the chassis
Now you can see the cab detail
And here is where the brake actuator has broken off the corner of the bogie.
If you are installing sound the speaker is designed to fit like this in the roof of the loco
I'm going to put a big Zimo decoder in mine and hopefully a bigger speaker than that, the instructions do offer a wiring diagram, but I'm not sure it's that helpful. There are separate lights for the head light, the marker lights, tail lights and cab lights on this version
I'll post some comparison photos to the original Heljan and a DJH one later.
Richard
The first thing to say is that this, to my mind at least, is their most detailed model yet. There is a very detailed bogie, albeit making some of those parts fairly fragile, the same goes for pipe work around the fuel tanks etc. It is the best cab interior they have done too.
There are both clear and frosted front lights, nice snow ploughs and front steps that you need to add yourself , they are the parts on the black coloured sprues. There are 2 short pieces of wire which maybe NRN radio aerials and 2 othe other parts which I have no idea what they are.
All in all, it looks very good to me.
The first one I opened (the blue one) had a number of broken parts, nothing major, 2 of the bogie spring brake actuators, a guard iron and a vacuum pipe, all annoying but nothing that can't be fixed fairly easily. Part of the problem is that the models are getting well detailed, but that means fragile parts that need careful protection in the packaging. Thankfully the green one is fully intact.
Here ae the broken bits
Taking it apart was also easy, as usual there are 4 screws that need to be removed, these are accessible by moving the bogies to one side and all 4 came out easily, the body then lifts off easily and you should remove the fan connection from the PCB to fully separate them. So here's the chassis
Now you can see the cab detail
And here is where the brake actuator has broken off the corner of the bogie.
If you are installing sound the speaker is designed to fit like this in the roof of the loco
I'm going to put a big Zimo decoder in mine and hopefully a bigger speaker than that, the instructions do offer a wiring diagram, but I'm not sure it's that helpful. There are separate lights for the head light, the marker lights, tail lights and cab lights on this version
I'll post some comparison photos to the original Heljan and a DJH one later.
Richard