After weathering a half a dozen Class 47’s in a low to medium format, I decided to move up a couple of notches and make a medium to heavy attempt. After looking at some photos, this is the result.
Weathered Metals 47
Month: November 2020
Four Stratford (SF) 47’s
Today I am going back to the late 80’s – early 90’s. During this time Stratford gathered a diverse collection of Class 47’s released from other duties. When I saw them they were mostly on Engineering trains, but they are likely to have been on a variety of trains. From what I can remember they always seem to have been very well looked after hence my models are only light to medium weathered. I have also picked locos that were not manufactured by the mainstream modelling industry, 47711 excepted.
All the Locos are first generation OO Heljan and have buffer beam details at one end and tension lock at the other. Again it is hoped they may run on ‘Osier Fen’ Layout, if not they will be sold.
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Two Class 31’s in 1960’s
These two 31’s are the first two of my recently purchases Heljan Locos from the 2nd batch. I will not go through the problems encountered after delivery, but these two loco’s needed a lot of remedial work due to poor packaging in transit.
I consider both locos to be weathered in a light to medium level after researching colour photos.
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Back to OO – Class 47’s weathered.
Here are two original Heljan Class 47’s that I detailed about ten years ago for a proposed new layout. This layout never happened and after detailing I just put them away. I am hoping that these will eventually run on my new OO layout Osier Fen, if not be sold.
In fact I detailed about twenty Locos at that time and I hope to work through them during lockdown and weather the lot! Watch this space!
Both Locos are light to medium weathering. They have one ends buffer beams super detailed and the other ends with tension locks left.
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Two further Heljan Locos weathered
Two Locos from two different eras. Both are weathered to a light to medium standard.
Class 31 – 31205 as running in the late 70’s.
Class 37 – D6720 as running in early 60’s
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Repair and Numbering Session.
This is a story of delight turning to horror. Between us my friend and I had ordered four of the just released Class 31 from Heljan in O Gauge. Imagine my horror when on opening the boxes and finding three of them damaged because of poor packaging. This was the first time I have ever had damage on a Heljan loco (although I know others that had) and immediately rang my supplier, sadly I seemed to be one of many, I was asked to return the three damaged locos for replacements. After testing the locos all were excellent runners – I made the decision that I was going to do the repairs myself and I asked for a discount from the supplier/Heljan – I was refused as it was not Heljan policy. I thought that was an awful decision but decided to keep and repair anyway as the replacements could have the same problems.
The damage on these loco included – Buffers torn off, bogie sides loose, Buffer Beam details fallen off, bogie ends missing and couplings broken. I have now repaired the lot and now have excellent locos, I guess it took me about two hours and I am happy.
The photos below show the finished Locos, the one that was not damaged and a 37 that I am also doing. They all need to be varnished (over the transfers) and then weathered.
