One of two 47 I bought back in April when their offer was on at £99.98 each. Illness has prevented me being able to use them until now, Great value to other discount models & you get a lot more 47 for your pound. With Accurascale now on board I'm sure Heljan will go from strength to strength which can only be good for us modellers.
Bought this back in April but illness has prevented its use until now. Absolute bargain at the price against a Hornby Railroad model. Well done Heljan.
Great little vans! Put mine with a Dapol Terrier - lovely!
Strong steady performance and good looks. Suits our era 5 set up.
These great value locomotives have been my entry into O gauge world
Am building a collection of these - this was my way of getting into O gauge - perfect for a micro diorama with a shuttle
Punchy green Southern colour to bring your O gauge to life!!!
Great for dairy mini layout - perfect entry to O gauge - and box is same size as most of my Heljan/Accurascale OO gauge boxes - so storage not a problem
Heavy package with heavy locomotive shunter - packaged well in ice cube packaging - with lots of quality supporting paperwork and historical information
Well made, good weight, model quality is good to excellant. Motor is smooth and I love it. The only thing is the coupling is difficult ti install, and it is a tiny but lower than what it should be.
Obviously more detail than D800 which I I purchase recently but once again it runs smoothly and looks good
It’s a great model and the quality of the livery application is stunning. It is THE ultimate Rule 1 loco!
A useful item that makes Heljan models more available to Hornby HM7000 users. Thank you Heljan and Peachy!
Seems to do as it says on the tin , works perfectly for me on the 122 units
Just added more to an already brilliant model. Plenty of sound functions.
The usual good quality and an interesting variation. Working it in consist with a BR maroon version.
Love it. This beautiful new model now replaces my old Bachmann D808.
Very nice loco,excellent detail,a bit of a jerky runner when starting off in the slow speed,but it will probably be ok woth a good running in ?
Overall hsppy with my purchase.
Extremely pleased overall with this class 42. The paint finish and detailing is superb, the sound file and speaker are very good and the motor is very quiet and smooth running. Slow running is faultless and doesn't seem to need a stay alive.
However there is a growing list of (very) small niggles. The lack of etched nameplates is disappointing, as is the missing brakes on the inner wheels. The detailing on the front is time consuming (and challenging) to fit and the photo in the leaflet is of very little help. The bufferbeam steps have been glued to the open valence, so if you want them on the detail end you have to carefully cut them off and reglue, as there are no replacements in the bits bag, I managed to break mine in the process. Also there is a random hole in the bufferbeam with no part left to fit in it, not sure why?
D832 was a strange choice for the only maroon version as she had raised fan guards (the model doesn't) so they should have used a different number/name.
I believe the roof should have been black, or at least extremely dark grey, not the light grey used.
These are all minor issues and won't prevent me from enjoying an otherwise superb model.
Looks good, runs perfectly. Always wanted this loco as I saw the actual loco D800 from when it was built in 1958. However, I do have a suspicion that the difficult to replicate front profile isn't quite perfect.