ba14eagle Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 This Heljan loco (very similar to Micks 58041) has been on and off my "desirable locos to own" list for quite a while now, but when the opprtunity came up to buy one at a reasonable price, I had to snap it up. Im not sure it quite fits into my West Country / West of Bristol collection of rolling stock, but it does have some personal memories for me - namely, I arrived at Birmingham New St one Saturday (many moons ago...) and found this very loco at the head of an inter regional train from Leeds to Poole. My friend and I hopped on board and had quite a lively ride to Coventry. Anyway, the loco is the standard Heljan offering, which just needs the cab / body hand rails changing to the correct pattern solid ones and some light weathering applied, before fitting with a sound chip and entering service - quite possibly on my inter-regional rake of mark 2 coaches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ba14eagle Posted May 6, 2013 Author Share Posted May 6, 2013 Recently outshopped in weathered livery and now fitted with a Howes sound chip - there was a real squeeze to fit this in, but I made it. I also painted some of the cab interior and added a driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
20119 Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 Looks really good what you have done with this. I have the same model and would love to do the same with the handrails, do you mind letting me know where you got them from? I can see A1 models do some but I don't think they look quite a good as yours do? Many thanks Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ba14eagle Posted July 6, 2020 Author Share Posted July 6, 2020 Thanks Paul Do you mean the handrails at the cab doors? They were part of the detail pack that came with the loco from new. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
20119 Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 Yes that's the ones, that's great cheers. I won an ebay heljan 58 yesterday so not sure if the detailing will be with it, didn't realise that Heljan gave the extra detailing, all the pics I have seen show the original handrails but the ones with backboards you have put on look so much better. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ba14eagle Posted July 7, 2020 Author Share Posted July 7, 2020 Different locos had different rails - definitely a case of find a photo of the loco you want to model before fitting them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
20119 Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 Just looked at pictures now and after all these years I never realised they had different rails! I certainly prefer the look of the ones you have put on so hopefully I will get some in the pack as the model is the same loco, we'll see. Thanks again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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