DJ Dangerous

Getting back on "track" here, absolutely smashing price for this DAF 2800, just under €30! Only four units available. https://www.ebay.es/itm/395050455562 Would like to see some of our resident weathering experts turn their hand at heavily aging one of these!

Your eyes are bigger than your... cavity.

Yup, the same four in each livery.

Was just gonna say that @Westcorkrailway posted here about Owen O'Neill's kit! @dave182 used the same kit here, I think. @Mayner posted photos here. Second picture shows the 1960's 15T gantry behind the shed.

As far as I know, both liveries were released with 4101 and 4108 bundled, and 4102 and 4110 bundled. So MM4101 and MM4108 both had 4101 and 4108 bundled. MM4102 and MM4110 both had 4102 and 4110 bundled.

There's always the likes of a cheap Hornby 0-4-0 steamer and a few open wagons, to entice young blood into the hobby. At a very young age, cheap and cheerful is probably more useful than prototypical accuracy. But agreed once they get to a late teens / early twenties age, and the nostalgia of alcohol, cars and girls has started to wear off a little. Then they're at a stage, where @Westcorkrailway has mentioned being himself, where they want more accuracy, but can't afford €600 for a *#*#*#*#*#* loco!

As opposed to @BosKonay saying "Ura" creep every time I catch him up to something suspicious?

Yeah, the cardboard might get damp.

I feel that there's a general perception that Facebook-based businesses are less reliable than real-world businesses. I'm sure that one of the forum web-genii, if that is the correct plural instead of geniuseseses, however, could help Murphy Models by adding a "news" widget to the Murphy Models website, which displays the most recent posts from the to-be-launched Facebook page. I posted links on the Genesis thread the other day, of the only four coaches not sold-out on pre-order.

Ah, the A looks a lot smoother than an 071.

Uh, phrasing... That doesn't count as a Heuston North update!

The kicker is, it doesn't necessarily have to be one or the other, choosing sides, real vs. virtual. I love cars, end of. I have a few real cars, and a few models - see the 1:18 Vehicle thread and 1:43 Vehicle thread - but also love Gran Turismo Sport and Gran Turismo 7. Haven't actually gone to a rally in a few years as changes at work have made it virtually impossible to get there early enough, walk a few km to find a good spot and chill for the day. Likewise with the trains - obviously can't go trainspotting down here! But, I wouldn't give up the actual models unless there was some kind of catastrophe.

More than changing demographics, it's a changing world. Outside of this forum, I don't know one single enthuiast who enjoys actual models. Everything is digital / virtual. Games / simulators / YouTube. Kids today, in most cases that I see, don't want a trainset or a model car. They want a simulator or they want to watch videos online. Likewise with any enthusiast friends, and DJD Senior included, they just want to look at stuff for free without having to do anything or spend anything. Pity my nieces and nephews. Despite their parents wishes for money or whatever, they get physical / tangible gifts. That's the only way to sow hope for the future.

Back in the pre-Accurascale-being-huge days, I have a feeling that the IRM lads implied that a Mk1 BCK / BSK based GSV's wouldn't be viable... However... https://www.accurascale.com/es-eu/collections/mark-1-coaches So I'd say Irish GSV's are a question of "when" rather than "if". @BosKonay knows that the Coastguard is watching...

So, to have more speculative fun... I know that @BosKonay said something that could be interpreted as a Genesis type project being beneath IRM's usual standards, here: But I think that a "GeneScale" project under the Accurascale / IRM brands would go down quite well, and fully agree with @Mayner here: Trying to launch 100% accurate examples of all of the original four and six wheel coaching stock in Ireland and the UK, with so many one-offs and prototypical variants, in my opinion, would be impractical. A GeneScale launch would also cover that IRM / Accurascale shared project alluded to earlier!

I posted comparison pics and comments in the Genesis thread, I think.

Not sure what I am thinking of. I remember reading a discussion here about some sort of coaching stock that survived until the end with some examples not receiving the updated livery. I feel like @DiveController was involved in that discussion. Hopefully he has a better memory than I do!

The good stuff was disappearing by the minute. I was looking at great stuff, at great prices, but out of my price-range, and every category was getting thinner and thinner and thinner. I did manage to pick up a few O Gauge wagons, cars, and a bundle of track, but the coaches were not in liveries that interested me. Almost got a blue / grey Mk1 but somebody beat me to it while it was in my basket! Is that a subtle hint that "somebody" might be taking over the tooling for the Genesis range???

I think that @BEANO3005 means the new batch, not the old batches. The painted samples of the 141's at Blackrock had nose grilles. Yeah, the Coastguard is watching!

Thanks be to Heaven for that!

I'm the Coastguard...

I'm open to correction here, but didn't some of the single-stripe Cravens coaches survive until the end without ever getting a second stripe?

While we're all having fun speculating, may I throw this into the mix? https://irishrailwaymodeller.com/topic/2531-irish-shunters The real question is O Gauge or OO Gauge???

Although, @WRENNEIRE did state here that there may not be DVT's with Paddy's Mk3's: