i suppose not many thought they would produce some of these less successful diesel types as models in OO - so maybe in the future when everything else has been done in N we might get a class 28.... 

Who produced the OO model?  Was it Dapol?  It was a Hatton's model wasn't it???
Maybe they would shrink it if they got enough interest....



Tim

Quote from: bluedepot on December 23, 2015, 08:30:06 PM
i suppose not many thought they would produce some of these less successful diesel types as models in OO - so maybe in the future when everything else has been done in N we might get a class 28.... 

Who produced the OO model?  Was it Dapol?  It was a Hatton's model wasn't it???
Maybe they would shrink it if they got enough interest....



Tim

The OO class 28 Model was by a Danish Company called Heljan whom as far as I can gather have never done anything in N.
They also do parcel DMU's, Rail buses (That would be a site to see in N) and classes 16,17 as well as a few of the more normal classes. They have scaled some stuff up from OO to O Gauge.

Interesting locomotive the 28 but I fear it is too early to hold any interest to me.

Heljan do/have done N scale buildings/structures but no trains. They do seem to have moved into OO9, maybe there's hope? ... 

I'm not sure about length but Kato do a JNR DE10 which is a Co-Bo, possibly a basis for a scratch builder. Kato mechanics seem very good, and I have recently bought two of these models which run very smoothly.

The Heljan 00 model is beautifully detailed (if 'orribly oversized). Hattons seems to have most variants at discount prices for a long time, though, so I don't know how well it sold for them. It's the one British locomotive that, if it was produced in n gauge rtr, I wouldn't be able resist. I had the Hornby Dublo one as my first ever model railway set as a child... I still have it, a bit the worse for wear...

Hello,

I've no idea how many loco's Heljan produced for Hattons - there were quite a few livery versions after all, (including the one that made into BR blue for about a year or so anyway). Also it means a very limited retail outlet!

Forgot to mention that these locomotives in the early days appeared fairly regularly paired on summer Saturday Derby to Ramsgate services. I am told by correspondents who travelled on the services (sorry no photos, but it did definitely happen, and they usually go there and back!) they went via Blackfriars through the tunnels. Must have been a real racket through there...
I believe they worked through to Brighton as well on excursions and summer extras.

Perhaps a little extra food for thought for anyone interested in such a project?

Cheers,
Paul

You can always kit build one because the old Poole Farish 31 chassis with a class 20 bogie replacing one end works nicely. The old Ian Stoate kit was easy to build but long vanished.

If you want a Metrovick just get your 3D printing tools out - the chassis is a solved problem, the rest just a matter of drawing ;-)

Worsely do both the 28 and the 21/29 as an etch kit. Langley do the 21/29 as a white metal kit.

Realistically as Bachmann ignored the Metrovick in OO they aren't all that likely to look at it in N.

Dapol I think wouldn't really look at it as they would want to do it in more than one scale - the sales of the O-gauge Terrier are having a positive effect on the balance sheet.  Who does a Co-Bo in O?

Dave Jones has a lot in his worklist at the moment and I don't know his thoughts about adding a Co-Bo.  Even if it was favourable I wouldn't expect to see one much before 2020.....

A bit of a shame from my point of view.  They were run-in from new on 8-coach trains starting at Stockton/Thornaby.  Many of these turns ran to Newcastle and back round the coast (past Easington- just right for Hawthorn Dene)
Les

Really? The only locomotives I'm aware of are the kettles Thomas, James, Henry and Percy, all currently out of production anyway; full range as displayed on the Tomytec site here.

The major Japanese manufacturers (Kato, Tomix and Microace) do make various models of the Japanese Co-Bo DE-10 diesel, no idea whether that would make a suitable chassis (seems a bit shorter than the Metrovick).

Aha, the Co-Bo is part of the "Plarail" range: http://plarail.exblog.jp/iv/detail/index.asp?s=6815865&i=200711/11/37/f0126337_1184858.jpg

Probably not so suitable for a conversion to N...