Published on Thursday 17 February 2022 by Accurascale UK

Accurascale Deltic Finescale P4 Test

We recently received our finescale wheelsets for our Class 55 Deltic locomotives for testing, and what better way to test it then to put it through its paces at a show? We brought our purple test mule to the Portsmouth show last weekend where members of South Hants Model Railway Club very kindly let us run it on their P4 layout "Eastwood". A big thank you to them for allowing the purple monster into traffic for some proving runs!

As part of testing we had a finescale modeller convert the Deltic from OO to P4 themselves. His conclusions were that it was a very simple procedure; simply pop the keepers places off, old wheels out, just give the pick-ups a little pull outwards and new wheels in. No plastic trimming or major surgery required, and also very easy to retro-fit back to OO should one wish to do so.

As you can see in the video, it performed flawlessly in front of a crowd (albeit looking a little out of place!) at a variety of speeds and through complex trackwork.

These wheels (along with EM wheelsets) will be produced and sold separately as accessory packs when the Deltics arrive, so keep an eye out for that!

Pre-order your Deltic today: accurascale.co.uk/collections/class-55-deltic and wheelsets here: accurascale.co.uk/collections/wheelsets

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