Modelling Gallery - 4mm scale ready to run electric and electro-diesel locomotives
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Below are illustrations of 4mm scale mass-produced ready to run electric and
electro-diesel locomotives. Details of how to contact manufacturers and suppliers
can be found in our modelling contacts section.
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| Golden Arrow Productions HA |
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Golden Arrow Productions of Hastings
produced this custom-built ready to run HA. The body is cast resin with whitemetal
bogies. One thing that has to be watched for when modelling Southern Electric in OO
gauge is the position of the pickup shoes - has the bogie width been modelled to true 4mm
scale or narrowed to reflect the compromise of 16.5mm gauge? In this model's case,
although it was advertised as only available in OO gauge the bogies are to 4mm scale width
as and so the pickup beams run outside the third rail , and the dummy pickup shoes foul
conductor rail fixed to OO gauge track. |
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| Hornby Class 92 |
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Hornby produced their first Class 92 model in 1995,
the same year that Lima did. Unlike the Lima model it is still available - in EWS
livery. The SEG Modelling Secretary has compared the Hornby and Lima versions side
by side and considers the Hornby model the better, but only by a narrow margin. |
| Lima Class 73 |
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Lima's first Class 73 model appeared in
1986 and it is certainly one of their better efforts. However, this lily can be
gilded, as can be seen on our kit-built, super-detailing,
conversions and scratch-built locomotives page. The pickup shoes align perfectly
with a conductor rail fixed to OO gauge track however if the rail is at scale height the
shoes are moulded slightly too low so lifting the loco fractionally and impairing
adhesion. A few moments with a file or knife can cure this! Three dozen
different versions of this loco are known to have been produced, seven of which are
illustrated left roughly in order of appearance of prototype liveries. Incidentally
Lima produced a model of E6005 - a JA - incorrectly with a JB body and incorrectly in
Brunswick green with a grey lower stripe and incorrectly with a loco - not carriage -
emblem. It is hoped to picture this model after the next photographic section. Following their acquisition of Lima, Hornby selected the Class 73 to
be among the first tranche of British stock to be re-released under the Hornby brand. |
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Hornby have made minor improvements to the EDL. It now has a 5 pole motor with a DCC socket, and couplings in a NEM pocket. The bodywork, bogies and underframe remain largely the same, as do the pizza cutter wheels. |
