Author: Kelvin Barnes

Two O Gauge Locos

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Another two locos, this time for Nick. The first is a 09 Shunter in Blue, I had to renumber it back into pre-tops, detail and weather, Nick had already added DCC sound. The roof panel that holds the DCC etc. needs refitting, I noticed it was not seated correctly after it was weathered.

The second Loco was a Class 15, already been DCC sound fitted by Nick, straight forward weathering job after adding the bits that had fallen off back on! Sadly one of the engine door handles is missing! Push fitted parts strike again!

Heljan O gauge O2 Shunter

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What a lovely little Loco – superb runner with DCC Sound. This is a medium weathering carried out for a friend. There is actually a ‘You Tube’ Video of this loco last Sunday at the Hoveton 32A Exhibition. Looked fantastic. This Loco is ‘looped’ for using sprat and winkle couplings.

Various O Gauge wagons

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Here are some O gauge wagons weathered for three group members. Usual methods, but note the cattle wagon is to be used as a converter wagon with three links at one end and knuckle coupler at the other.

O Gauge Bogie Bolster E

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Here are a rake of four bogie bolsters that have been weathered to a medium standard. These Dapol wagons are very good and I like them a lot, however one thing I now realise is that NO separate parts (mouldings) are glued on – all are push fit, and a few do not like handling very much. This is not a moan at Dapol, I think the days of securely fitted parts are over from all manufacturers, probably due to keeping the price down on foreign manufactured items! My advice would be check your stock for loose bits and pieces and glue on to avoid loss when handling.

O Gauge Dogfish -weathered

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Here we have a rake of three Dogfish as running in the late 60’s – early 70’s. They have all received slightly different levels, but generally they are medium weathering.

As they are likely to run empty most of the time, I have given the inside of the hoppers special attention, with a rusty and general rough look.

O gauge 31179 un-refurbished

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Here is an older Heljan model of an original Class 31 as running about 1976 – 82. The only modification was the boiler filler and steps have been plated over, this was achieved by using a kit.

I has been weathered to a medium grubby standard.

Five Heljan Class 24

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Here are some Class 24’s as running in East Anglia in the late 50’s – early 60’s. Four are plain green and one has a small yellow warning panel. As I wanted them all to be a bit different, I broke them down into three types when weathering was added, see below.

Sadly Heljan put Silver grilles on the bodyside of the all green models, none that were allocated to East Anglia had them! So they had to be modified before weathering, the green with small panels was fine, no silver bits!

All The current Heljan batch of 24’s have the second type of exhaust port – all the below should have the original types – it was decided to leave them as purchased sadly – hopefully a detailing conversion kit will become available!

As the head code discs are push fit, it was decided that we needed to keep the flexibility to change them when the trains were made up, this way we could always have the right code displayed.

Light Weathering (D5024)

Medium Weathering (D5036)

Medium to Heavy (D5042)