What's your latest acquisition?

[sprinterguy]

A main issue with it is the body width is a touch too narrow, which made the Heljan tubby duff appear even more tubby placed alongside. The old Hornby one depsite its issues was at least dimensionally correct in its body.

I can't claim that's ever been apparent from a personal perspective. The old 1970s Hornby one seemed/seems crude by comparison when both were competing products in the market, thirty years ago, though it did look sufficiently like a class 47 to keep the childhood me happy at that time.

 

[Sun Chariot]

I can't claim that's ever been apparent from a personal perspective. The old 1970s Hornby one seemed/seems crude by comparison when both were competing products in the market, thirty years ago, though it did look sufficiently like a class 47 to keep the childhood me happy at that time.

My teenage self was similarly happy with Lima's 47, when introduced to the OO market. I'd accumulated examples in blue, large logo, GWR150 green and Railfreight.

 

[Cowley]

My teenage self was similarly happy with Lima's 47, when introduced to the OO market. I'd accumulated examples in blue, large logo, GWR150 green and Railfreight.

Yep, I had a fair few of them too. I even repainted a couple of them and detailed them up etc.

 

[Sun Chariot]

Yep, I had a fair few of them too. I even repainted a couple of them and detailed them up etc.

That was a 'rite of passage' for many model locos of the era
My parents' garage floor had a permanent tinge of monastral blue spray paint; and I'd lost count of how many home-made brass handrails, lamp-irons and pipes "pinged" to the kitchen floor, never to be found again.

 

[SCH117X]

I found out trying to put etched grilles etc on a Lima 47 - the roof was too narrow for them. Eventually passed it on to someone who wanted the chassis and wasn't bothered by a huge hole in the roof

 

[sprinterguy]

My teenage self was similarly happy with Lima's 47, when introduced to the OO market. I'd accumulated examples in blue, large logo, GWR150 green and Railfreight.

One thing I always thought Lima diesel/electric locos had going for them was that the livery detail always precisely applied (even when the liveries were occasionally fictitious!), and the colour match against the real thing was generally good.