DJ Dangerous

As far as I'm concerned, definitely! The buses that you've run show how well Irish vehicles will sell, and if you're looking at the possibility of mixed plastic like the Brekina's, and diecast chassis or something, the level of detail could be even higher. Whatever you choose to run, it's likely to sell very well!

Yes!!! Hell yes! There are so many "Irish" type vehicles, from the Hino trucks to the Japanese cars to the Renault 4 vans! One topic that I had hoped to research properly before posting, and have not yet done so, is IRM Oxford commissions. What would the chances be of some commissions like this, with current Oxford vehicles commissioned with Irish liveries, either individual vehicles or era-appropriate multi-packs? For example, An post, Telecom Eireann, Eircom, ESB, Bord Gais etc. A set of eighties vehicles displaying the logos and designs of several Irish companies, a set of 1990's vehciles, a set of 2000's vehicles, a set of 2010's vehicles, a set of 2020's vehicles and so on. Also, the Oxford Tayto truck must have another Irish application, even an Irish utilities vehicle, plus their DAF 2800's and 85's? I haven't done proper research but since you ask, this seems the right time to make the suggestion. I have some 1:87 Brekina Renault 4 vans but they are just too small alongside the 1:76 vehicles. Please please please look into the possibility of some Oxford commissions, in the interim while pondering building your own range!

You'd better stay off the forum for the next couple of months so! See you in September.

Don't you think that maybe that's like saying fifteen years ago that one would only be tempted into Irish modelling if there were a full selection of locos, coaches and wagons available from the start? Surely a launch with a handful of products, if such a project were ever to reach the market, would be sufficient for starters? Flexible track, one medium LH point, one medium RH point, wheelsets for one loco model and wheelsets for IRM wagons... Five products at launch that would allow a huge amount of modellers make a start. I have about 60 metres of 16,5mm track that I would sell in in a heartbeat if 21mm were made easy. One loco, say for example the A Class, and IRM's post-ballast chassis, with pop-in 21mm wheelsets and boom, we're at a level that Irish modellers could only have dreamed of! A year later, and maybe we'd get 21mm bogies for the Mk2D's and 21mm wheelsets for another class of loco.

Surely if the conversion was made very easy, ie interchangeable wheelsets for the locos and wagons, and new bogies for the coaches, you'd take the dive? I'm sure that I read somewhere on here that the MM bogies are not easy to adapt to 21mm, so they'd need plug 'n' play bogies to pop in to tempt me over to the 21mm side.

Only the odd Dustin cameo, any more and it'd be unbearable.

Could we not have Zig and Zag doing them instead?

Ah, he's alright. He has a nice voice for narration, and his videos are aimed at teens and pre-teens who are saving their pocket money each week for a new Hornby loco every few months... Not exactly the same target group as MM and IRM!

Who? George?

Road Liner Trucks, green Dublin buses or the B&I ferry?

When will we some of the orange fever spread to Ashburton?

Outstanding!

Those posters for the assembly line... Will we get one of those free with every two A Classes that we buy?

I'm not so sure, that chap looks like he wouldn't survive the sky-diving.

No need for tracking, as George says... The lads will want to make this launch special, so they'll probably fly the pallets of locos on an Antonov, parachute them out over the Canaries, then the lads will skydive alongside the pallets with their GoPro's. They'll then land and film the unboxing of one of the best models ever in one of the most beautiful places in the world, edit all the clips together, and make the best "unboxing" video ever. Twenty minutes wouldn't be long enough.

Hell yes!!!

Imagine that, a three pack of Hino's! Hino tractor cab definitely deserving of it's own release, and the Hino three pack would need to include a cement mixer.

I think that kit might be 1:87.

So the following IRM locos all fit the bill for 1965? A12 (Black with Yellow) A15 (Black and tan) A42 (Light green) A46 (Dark green) A55 (Black) Would they have been running alongside the grey 121's and the black and tan 121's at the same time?

The bid was BTB. He's mad for collecting this stuff, and tries to put everybody else off bidding.

@Noel will probably know the specifics, he's mad for the yellow stuff.

Excellent, thank you! I've just ordered a few from DC Kits.

The Bell reefers have been out of stock forever!

Irish steam with no RTR Tin Vans??? Forget it!

So there were only ever two Tool vans, both ex-TPO conversions? So when did they enter service as Tool Vans, and when did they retire? What trains were they used on?