DJ Dangerous

LOL, don’t be encouraging me, I’m easily influenced!

Brilliant stuff, @MAL! This is what I was wondering about for future Bulleid runs, future loose-coupled stock and future brake-vans. If the buffers were applied in the factory, but were friction-fit or NEM-pocket-style clipped in, rather than glued, and mounted on a reversible rectangular plate, IRM customers could then pop them off to swap them around as needed. You want to run an IRM brake-van coupled to an A or a Park Royal? Run it straight out of the box! You want to run that same IRM brake-van with the Bulleids? Ten seconds to swap the buffers around and you're sorted!

I'm happy to volunteer some of my time and sign up if it's a bit boring for you on there. This: "We have people who find sport in causing issues - one chap is adept at posting ambiguous comments, then claiming that he meant the less obvious version, when challenged." And this: "People sign up to start arguments, then sign up again to agree with themselves." ...had me in tears! You sure you're not talking about our own forum?

Love that 50!

Quite possible that some of our members either don't remember, or never experienced, the pre-social-media days of well-moderated internet fora, and the inevitable consequences of unmoderated chaos. God bless those internet cafes.

There's something very ironic about this whole thread, that I can't quite put my finger on.

Lovely stuff, as usual, @ttc0169, even if it's a few hours late. Tara Junction looking wonderful, and a great selection of stock, showcasing what a great year it's been for modellers - so far!

You big tease, you and your custom transfers!

Another non-container container-thread post, but a SAR mission this time. Sorry that the photos aren't great, but that chopper must have been at least 2km away. They were less than an hour before heading back to base, so hopefully they were successful.

I'll censor myself for tonight, so. Or this morning, if I'm being pedantic.

Forum members in general. By "your", I meant both you and @derek. By "ours" I meant forum members in general. By "theirs" I meant the admin / mod team. The impossible balance between free speech and moderation. You can get it just about right most of the time but it'll always be too far one way or the other for certain circumstances.

Probably best to move this post into @Gabhal Luimnigh's thread HERE, in order to keep both threads on-topic.

A lot of posts get removed. Sometimes, it isn't the post itself, but something like the timing, the wording, the context or lack thereof, maybe some innuendo, or even the interpretation. I've had a LOT of my posts removed, but sure it is what it is. Agree or disagree in the heat of the moment, we have to respect the moderators decisions. They have a lot of crap on their plates, both forum stuff and real-world IRM / A/S stuff, so sometimes have to make quick decisions. One piece of advice, for both @Gabhal Luimnigh and @derek, would be to speak with the mods in private. Even though it may not be your intention, starting a thread last week on censorship, then another this week, may be percieved by the admin as combative or gaslighting. I'm not saying that is your intent, and I apologise in advance if that's how this sounds, just that if you put yourself in their shoes, maybe you'd feel / do the same. Again, it's probably something best dealt with in private, for your sake, ours, and theirs.

Image upload now working! Courtesy of the Accurascale website:

Yup, now working.....

Yeah, bodywork looks way off, that's a shame. Thanks for posting, @Tarabuses!

Forum image-uploader seems to be broken today. Best option is to edit the body of both posts. If I may suggest an infamous forum line for each: "Always wash your hands after soldering". "Don't eat yellow snow".

You win the internet for today.

Stopped working about nine or ten last night, roughly. Last few successful image uploads were to the Bulleid Open thread and the H Van thread.

Yup! Tried several small images in different formats. Would post a screenshot, but, you know... Sorry, an unknown server error occurred when uploading this file. (Error code: Screenshot_20240718-123501.png could not be saved.)

Which switcher switched the wrong switch for that Switcher? Swish!

Oh Lord, not another pun-itive comment, dragging us down to the bowels of literary wit.

Yeah, the threads can get a bit, I dunno, rabid, at times, with people stamping all over anybody with different opinions etc, but this one is surprisingly pleasant, no tantrums nor attacks nor anything.

I don't think anybody's being disrespectful, yet, are they? Maybe at the weekend, that'll start. Not really that odd that it's only coming to light, now. I would guess that the width of the buffer faces themselves is why these stand out from Murphy Models' older locos and their coaching stock. The older MM locos and the MM coaching stock have relatively wide buffer faces, so the misalignment doesn't stand out. @Mayner has (very justifiably) prided himself on the accuracy of his models, and they have the older narrow buffer faces. You'd probably notice even more with one of his brakevans, but I can't verify this, it's only speculation. Combine that with such an about-turn from IRM on the details, and maybe that's why some folk are surprised. Again, to clarify, I think that they're savage little wagons, and standing alone, they look amazing to me, and I wouldn't be cancelling orders or anything rash.

How close are these to the Regents that worked for Dublin Bus and GNR? https://www.ebay.es/itm/335197937211 Can't post screenshot right now due to uploader glitch.