DJ Dangerous

A few items that may be of interest... The IRM Spoils have been for sale for months and months, so the seller may be willing to accept offers: https://www.ebay.es/itm/354069986848 Wiggy at the Weekend (Is that Neil of WheelTappers?) offloading IRM Tara Mines Pack A, and has been selling off loads of Irish stuff lately: https://www.ebay.es/itm/134120875989

This set have been on eBay for months. I'm sure you could contact the seller and make an offer: https://www.ebay.es/itm/354069986848 Renumbering or hiding the numbers using weathering would solve any duplicate numbering issues.

The Tiny City vehicles are lovely! I have a few of them and can't fault them. Also, is that a Hongwell / Cararama Porsche in the corner?

What are the odds on seeing Ashburton Grove populated with IRM N Gauge stock in ten years?

Looks like a white Christmas!!!

Don't confuse the model with the real-life era. In the real world, painting an 071 in silver was as stupid as painting an A Class silver. The 071's were gorgeous in that livery, albeit very impractical and very short-lived. When it comes to the 071 models, the black and silver (was it nicknamed the Engineer's livery or something?) sold out long before the IE livery, which in turn sold out long before the ST livery. Nothing for anybody to get butthurt over, that's fact, not opinion. Marks Models couldn't shift the IE livery 071's, while at the same time I had to scrape the dregs to get a silver and black one from DC Kits. Sold me a dud, but at least I got one, and I'll probably rope some poor sap like murphaph into fixing it for me one day. And, the ST livery hung around well after the IE's had gone. So, popularity of 071 liveries... Freight grey and NIR were half-runs, I think, so it's hard to get a fair comparison. People bought them even though they were out of era, just to have. Nearly sure that Noel, who favours the BT era, has a freight grey 071. That aside, IR won hands down, then silver and black, then IE, with ST trailing.

Not so sure about them not being popular models in this livery. They were just as hard to track down as any of the other 500-unit runs.

The Unit45 boxes have been around for ages, now.

A floating, motorized 1/76 B&I ferry is NOT unexpected!

Lots of them in this video, uploaded September 2021, but they still look "wrong" to me for some reason!

And what a masterpiece that drawing was!

Yeah, those Samskip ones have a very alien feel to them.

Nearly sure that there was already a big one lined up for the show, the last one of the year! January: Magnesites! February: Coastal Tours Buses! March: RPSI Coach Packs! April: didn't materialise so a chance to save the pennies! Late April / May: Something Powered! June: Surprise! July: Surprise! August: Surprise! September: Surprise! October: Something Powered! November and December: Figure out how to recover from all of the spending and prepare to start borrowing for the next years worth of announcements!

Wasn't the late April one to be a "powered" one? Damn, gonna be scraping the pennies together for whatever it is!

They were probably the last of the IRM Spoil wagons, now sold out at IRM. Marks Models still show some in stock.

Just received one of these in the post today. Have to say, they are stunning! Even the packaging has a lovely Coastal Tours theme to it! Still available to order, so don't be an idiot and miss out. I wonder if I'll ever get the first one of the run!

Just forgot, I'm sure.

Looks much better with the turntable gone, lovely flow to it, love it! Would you not consider having a double track running off stage rather than just the a single? It'd mean more operational flexibility and less pointwork.

They'll look great, wherever they went. Hopefully @Dempsey releases them soon as his first Irish wagon.

Pretty sure this was done to death on the announcement. Same chassis means a smashing model at a smashing price, with a few trade-offs like the NEM pocket and the 21mm re-gauging. Definitely won't stop me from destroying the bank balance! P.S.:

While we're on the subject of mental insanity, I'm doing a clearout and I have the following to go at €500 each: Pudding bender, hardly used Spotted paint, single coat Glass hammer, smashing price Chocolate doorknob, barely nibbled Contact Annette if interested, Annette Curtain...

Yup, the Tara's are shorter, and they go around R1 curves no bother.

The close-coupling bars are awesome! I'm pretty sure that they came not only with the Tara's, but the whole Project 42 run. They couple the wagons more closely, they run more smoothly, and look less obtrusive than TLC's.

Boooooooooooo!

How are the Mags looking stock-level-wise currently?