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@George If you are in Facebook, (Railway Modellers Ireland group) there is currently one for sale by Mark Dunlea,  https://www.facebook.com/groups/1111393745593442/?multi_permalinks=28265491526423630%2C28234164049556378&notif_id=1786851617000000&notif_t=group_highlights&ref=notif

Certainly sounds fishy....

I've had several, and I have eyed up their impressive range of BR railcars. In their favour - currently, but hopefully not always - the only supplier of ready to run models of a number of Irish prototypes ("C" class, B101 class, an approximation to an AEC railcar, and a number of CIE ? GNR UTA coaches). Against - for what you get, flimsy, and in livery terms an utter disaster in most cases - light years from accuracy. despite being advised too, by myself and several others, they just refuse to amend this deadly simple error. In other words, they don't listen to the customer - not a good idea for a small niche manufacturer. The price has been criticised as too high here and there, but to be fair, given that each model is hand-made, I don't think the costs are at all unreasonable in this day and age. So, overall, a mixed bag. For some models for which the only other option is scratch build yourself, yet that supply RTR, the only option, thus worth looking into. I have several of their tin vans, which are utterly essential for any 1960s layout. I got a silver one, a green one and a black'n'tan one. The green one as I expected was completely the wrong colour, so I repainted it, and it survived(!) Their AEC set is an adaptation of a British railcar. When they started doing this, to be fair the only thing that made it look Irish at all was the livery. However, again to their credit, they amended the look of the thing and what they do now is a great deal better. It is lacking in detail, though a bit of pockling about with it would solve that. You can get them in CIE black'n'tan, which looks very well. The green version of CIE is so bad that an entire repaint is necessary. It's no more accurate than if it was painted pink. The UTA and GNR livery versions are not right either, though seemingly improved from their earlier versions, i think. If you're not fussed about wrong liveries, and the fact that the model is not an accurate model, but more an approximation, then it's probably worth a punt as there isn't any alternative. On that basis alone, i had considered a two car set myself.

Hi all, at the moment I’m considering buying a ready to run model from silver fox models, however I personally don’t have any experience or knowledge as to how good the models are, so I’m wondering if they are worth buying.   I’d most likely go for the C class or something similar, possibly the AEC/2600 railcar (probably not the latter though)   Many thanks

It may still be worth asking Chris if he'd be willing to sell the LongRider etch only, so that you can experiment with other motors. I have two full LoRiders/LongRiders for my Derby Lightweights, but would probably need more etches for other purposes.