DJ Dangerous

"Small" is too vague... Small models, small runs, small prices, small baby on the way, give us a clue! Bring your weathering gear and we can work something out. Working holiday for you, but at least it's in the sun. And the answer is...

Jayus, why all the hate for Sam's Trains? He has a nice voice, his videos are nice to watch for a few minutes, and his set-up probably resembles what many folk have as their only option... All I have is a board that slides under the bed with a few mm clearance! He does go on a bit, but I don't think that's the problem - I did an unboxing video a few months back, and it was about three minutes, yet there was still some yoyo on moaning about it. Have to second that! Where I'm based, Irish shipping firms, be it An Post, GLS, DHL Scumbag Express, they all make a complete balls of things, over and over and over. Any time I've had to email IRM, be it Fran, Stephen or Patrick that I've spoken with, they've been nothing but helpful and courteous. I imagine that many companies would just say "To Hell with him, he's the only one down there", but the IRM lads just don't give up. Here's an example of the massive clusterduck that is An Post... International flights resumed here in June 2020, and we've been free of lockdowns since then, yet this is the message on the An Post website, today: Lastly, who are Digitrains and what sounds are these?

Old-man-racer-life-crisis, I believe is the term!

Attached here is the updated list of A Class sound decoder functions, as posted here by @Warbonnet. 18.10.2021_-_A_Class_EMD_decoder_functions.pdf Also attached is the list of A Class non-sound decoder functions, as posted here by @BosKonay.

Received these two little stunners in the post today; EP71 Turbos! Got them from eBay. My real life one is off the road the last few years, and will continue to be so for another few years. These are supposed to be 1/64 but I'd say that they're closer to 1/70. Too big for other 1/76 cars, but grand with 1/76 trucks and buses.

You mean for the Mk4 coach sets and 47' wagons, with a little gap left for a few thousand two-tone green Dublin Buses?

That's some amount of weathering! Buys you a lot of time in the shed to do a good job for those few lads!

It's very rare that I get to choose the shipping company when buying. If there's an option, I'll choose anybody but DHL Express, but most of the time it's "Screw you and your island paradise, there's only one shipping option". Hattons are the only one I can think of who tell you who the different shipping companies are before actually making the purchase. So glad that the A's are shipping via GLS and not DHL Express.

What do you know about tagging, eh? Sounds suspicious!

Roughly how much does one of those giant corrugated boxes that covers a loco or coach cost? Likewise how much do those giant tarps cost? I saw this lovely video on YouTube:

So they're finally out.

Same! Received a few tracking numbers, all GLS. Can't believe it, finally, only another month or two and they'll be here, in my hands! To DHL Express, I wish nothing but famine, pestilence and death, and the same to their families, friends and friends' families. Had a call from DHL Express the other day... €45 EURO parcel from Amazon, €3.15 IGIC due, €35 DHL Express handling fee... And, that €45 included an extra €6 that Amazon had charged to cover possible import charges, ie the €3.15 IGIC. Needless to say, I said no thanks!

They also had 188 and 080 the other day.

I see this for sale on Adverts.ie in case anybody is interested: https://www.adverts.ie/toy-cars-trains-boats-planes/model-railway/25188443 I've bought from this seller a few times and they are genuine.

Three!

Speechless... WOW!

The Mk2D's with white bands look so at home behind the A Class!

According to this post by @jhb171achill, the A's were re-engined between 1968 and 1972, and I think that the Supertrain livery only arrived in around 1972:

I see from this previous post that the "R" suffix was only used in a mixed-engine fleet: The "S" suffix was for CAWS. One A15 available!

So, probably a taboo subject so early, but which of the remaining in-stock A Class locos are suitable for repaints to represent sold-out models? I'm assuming that the only difference between the two ST/IR hybrids (007 and 056), and the day-glow IR models (036 and 054), is the lack of CAWS guards? ST livery 018 looks like the early ST, has staff catchers, has no CAWS and has original windscreens, but ST livery 027 looks appropriate for IR resprays... No staff catchers, has CAWS and has toughened windscreens. So hybrids 007 and 056 along with ST 027 would be appropriate for pre-CAWS IR repaints? What about the A46 that everybody lost their minds over, and the various B/T models that are almost gone? Were the bodies the same through the silver, green, B/T pre-rebuild and black versions? Were the B/T rebuilt A3R, A23R and A39R the same as ST livery 018? I'm not going repainting one, don't worry, but I am curious!

How much do IE sell locos like that to the preservation groups for?

13 now...

If somebody were to add backscenes using PhotoShop or a similar program, and convert to greyscale, they would look like real photos.

There is no magic bullet for preventing environmental damage. The electricity for EV's still needs to be generated. It's cleaner and more efficient to generate it in one place, rather than have millions of tiny fossil fuel generators whizzing around the roads, but it's still not a finite solution. A growing population, many of whom are not YET living in first world luxury, is the real worry. Lifestyle changes are inevitable, further down the line - poorer living standards, less luxuries and higher prices for all. Current global economic model is based on infinite population expansion, on a finite planet with finite resources. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that something has to give at some point.