DJ Dangerous

Oh, please! You only say that because you guys have had your on run of them sitting in a container in Dublin the last two years, held back just to troll us, along with the forty foots of Laminates, Mk4 sets, 22000's and the twenty foot of motorised floating B&I ferries. Sure every few months, when he manages to wipe the tears of laughter out of his eyes, Fran posts pictures of a "new" tooling sample that has been sitting on the ledge in his bathroom for a couple of years, and then spends another few months crying with laughter at the reactions of all of us here on the forum, frothing at the mouths. Every time I mention two-tone green 1990's Dublin buses, he glances over at that twenty foot and laughs so hard that he starts coughing and says to himself "ah, they can wait a few more months for those" ...

Wow. Just wow. What extra underbody detailing did you add, and on what bogies does it sit?

A third of the run gone inside the first month! Outstanding!

Looked like he was going to accept even less...

Because IRM are holding back their P47!

I hope it's gonna be very secure!

Murphy Models 183 about to go for €200 here: https://touch.adverts.ie/toy-cars-trains-boats-planes/model-railway-murphys-models-181-no183/26247024 Best price I've seen one at in a long time.

I'm guessing that IRM will tease us for as long as possible before a monstrous climax of 1990's two-tone green Dublin Bus, the Holy Grail of model buses. So what else is coming in the Olympian range before then? A yellow and blue pair will be a no-brainer, as will a blue and cream pair, but might the rare ones also appear? Like the Heinz and Chef pair? Or the learner bus and the tree-cutter? Or a Swatch and Esso pair? Or the black and white Wedding Bus and the "It Could Be You" bus? How about a Bartons and Gormanston pair? Or a Nite Link and Premier Inn pair? That's about three years worth of bus foreplay before the big one.

I saw two lovely CMA CGM babies sitting outside Decathlon in La Laguna earlier... Are these in a revised livery with Seaco and Seacell added? They are slightly different to my C-Rail CMA CGM HC's. Is this the guise in which they currently run in Ireland? Maybe @ttc0169 or @MOGUL could confirm? If so, do you have any plans for a run of them, @Arran?

What would you suggest, to improve the model's appearance?

I'm happy to offer a good home to any unwanted "old" MM 141's, 181's, 071's or 201's...

It's probably difficult to get slots in the factories at the moment. I'm sure we'll see tooled samples at one of the shows before anything from the announcement goes on sale.

Thank Heavens for IKEA and their cheap Mosslanda shelves!

Just curious as to why? I've seen several members post that, but I'm not sure that it would be ideal from a sales point of view - possibly be akin to another run of the A's, which wouldn't make sense immediately. Absolutely agree there, stunning looking locos, all of the variants. Don't get to run my trains at all lately, although hope to do so at the end of the month, so for now, I can at least look at them.

183 for sale, weathered! https://touch.adverts.ie/toy-cars-trains-boats-planes/model-railway-murphys-models-181-no183/26247024

If you need some sunshine, I know a man!

So pretty much one per month from February through to October, and two of them are home-wreckers? Got it.

A few Cravens for sale: https://touch.adverts.ie/toy-cars-trains-boats-planes/murphys-models-cravens-model-railway/26244180

Absolutely stunning! So, the most important question... When aill you have a run of 500 ready as an IRM special commission?

It's been said before, and I can say that I wholeheartedly agree, the silver and the green don't show up too well in photos but they are just stunning to the eye. The green is gorgeous, and the detail on the silver really pops. Plus, the sold-out models already change hands for over €250 on eBay, so you'll definitely be paying a premium if you want them further down the line.

And the buses! Can never have enough buses!

Almost sure that I read somewhere here on the forum that the Irish variant had the same chassis but a different body. Not 100% sure on that.

How are the sales figures looking now? My budget has been thrown askew due to some unexpected spending on RPSI coach packs and IRM buses!

When I was younger, maybe early teens, maybe earlier, I sent a letter to IR / IE, with some drawings that I had done, suggesting new liveries, and suggesting that they start naming the locos. The livery that the 201's arrived in is not a million miles off the drawings that I had sent, and all these years on, I still think that it's a lovely livery. For its day, it was a modern take on the classic ST / IR / IE colours, and it looked great no matter what it was hauling / pushing.