DJ Dangerous

Try @leslie10646 who is selling off some wagons, and @WRENNEIRE who always knows a man.

Two more from Otto, the OT1218 2008 V12 Toyota Century and the OT1211 2020 NA1 stanced Honda NSX:

Probably made a last-minute decision to make them O Gauge instead of OO, to go with the O Gauge 121’s. That’s what the “packaging issue” must have been; they wouldn’t fit into the boxes…

What transfers are / were people using for their IR and IE Mk2A/B resprays? the Intercity logo, the door logos, the coach ends and the no-smoking signs? Thanks!

What transfers are / were people using for their IR and IE Mk2A/B resprays? the Intercity logo, the door logos, the coach ends and the no-smoking signs? Thanks!

Droooooooooollllllll!!! That is beautiful!

That would be a great price for something so special and so unique. For something like a 121, I’d definitely be buying a few at that sort of price, or an A or an 071 for a bit more. C Class I’d buy one because it’s Irish, but I don’t really have strong nostalgia for them. 141 / 181 would be nice, and cover a great time frame, but I already have a few cardboard units, so wouldn’t go mad buying them. Dapol have kept the price very low on their forthcoming 66’s. I’m not quite sure how they have done so, and the current pricing is after an increase and a shake-up a year or two ago. Within two or three months, I can hopefully report back on how they perform. Not suggesting a 201, just curious as to how they’ve kept such a large loco so cheap.

32mm to 36,75mm, is it?

For operability and micro-layouts, something tiny would be ideal, but @BosKonay seemed to be asking about the displayability as much as running: And @Flying Snail was saying that an 071 may be too big for a shelf: Which it definitely wouldn’t. I guess my main concern would be the minimum radius curves. 1028mm would be ideal, but would involve some intelligent engineering with the bogies and the buffers. Maybe some kind of “steering” of the axles indide the bogie frames?

According to THIS sheet, an 071 is 57 feet over the buffers, or 17,4 metres in today’s money. That’s just over 40cm in O Gauge, so definitely not too big. Quite a bit shorter than a Class 55, 50, 47, 37 etc. To be honest, you’re almost down to Class 26 / 27 territory. Not quite, but only a few cm more. Heljan Class 26 / 27 just about fits onto a 36cm shelf.

071 is pretty small compared to some UK locos. Comparison of scales, on a 76cm shelf:

B1Lancer / Valve Design used to offer 1:48 GM bodies via Shapeways. I’m sure he could have been convinced to scale them up to 1:43, or sell his files to another printer. Neither of his two RMW profiles, here and here, have been active the past few years, so unless somebody like @Noel, who has bought from him before, has a means of contacting him, that may be a dead end.

It’s an interesting question. Personally, a diesel like an A Class or an 071, and I’d buy two or three, mainly for display. If it were a smaller, more operable loco like a G Class or a Ruston, I’d buy one, just because it’s Irish. I probably wouldn’t buy another Irish steam loco, as they’re too far from my field of interest.

This: https://alphagraphixkits.co.uk/449045255 Plus this: https://railsofsheffield.com/collections/efe-rail?filter.v.price.gte=0&filter.v.price.lte=296&filter.p.m.custom.class=Class+15&sort_by=best-selling Equals this: https://www.rmweb.co.uk/topic/147141-141-class/#findComment-5487185

Here’s the email that was sent out:

IXO Models TR228.22 1:43 scale 1983 Volvo F10 truck cab:

Otto-Mobile 1:18 scale 1995 Toyota Celica GT Four (ST185), number 298 of 1500:

Rails of Sheffield have a whopper O Gauge sale on. Massive discounts: https://railsofsheffield.com/collections/o-gauge-offer-overload?filter.v.price.gte=0&filter.v.price.lte=495&sort_by=price-descending Class 50’s, Class 37’s, Mk2 coaches, railcars, steam locos, you name it!

He’s online several times a day, always using the PM facility.

Thanks for posting, @WRENNEIRE. Sorry for your loss, I know that you were close. Lovely words from everybody, specially @Warbonnet, who also would have been part of Paddy’s inner circle. Not much I can say that hasn’t already been said. Thank you for your vision, the models, the enjoyment, and for opening doors for so many of us, doors which may never have opened without you. Would be nice to see B141 officially named in Paddy’s honour. May he rest in peace, and live forever in our hearts.

O Gauge / 1:43 scale 1951 Leyland Comet: https://www.salvat.com/camiones-y-autobuses-espanoles/leyland-comet-4857 Cheaper from eBay re-sellers than buying direct: https://www.ebay.es/itm/156436365891 Salvat models are decent enough quality for the price.

Sorry to hear this, @David Holman. Living and working en Canarias for many years now, and this sort of thing is neither new nor rare. Without typecasting a whole nationality, here en Canarias, it’s usually carried out by Italians. Usually three working together; a distraction, a lookout and the actual pickpocket. Italian criminals are embedded in the underbelly here like ticks, from organised crime to petty crime, and everywhere in between. A brief search online in Spanish will return a lot of results on the bigger raids on the mafia guys. The emergency travel documents are a pain in the arse. Have had to help people get them before and it’s literally a day’s work to make a denuncia at the police station and then go get the emergency travel documents. The advice from others is great; if your room has a safe, use it. If it costs €30 or whatever, it’s worth it. Just make sure that the safe is secure! Have met people who’ve had their safe stolen as it was only fitted to a wooden shelf etc. Spread your stuff around, if you must bring it with you. The more pockets, the better. I stick non-slip tape to everything, to make it even harder to get it out of the pocket. I used to buy little packs of Velcro strips but they started annoying me, so I moved to non-slip tape instead. Like this:

My track has been boxed up for about 15 years. Only took some out the other day to start cleaning and polishing it: IMG_9717.mov

Faller AMS. https://www.hobbydb.com/marketplaces/hobbydb/subjects/faller-ams-series https://www.marklin-users.net/cookee_nz/ams/ams-intro.htm I had never heard of that before, thanks!

Anybody here on the forum into slot car / Scalextric type layouts? I guess there’s not a huge crossover between 1/43 (O Gauge) railways and 1/32 (Gauge 1) slot cars, but it’s always struck me as a veritable option for moving vehicles on a layout… …Unless you have some of Bowaters 1/32 Irish stock sitting around, then it’s perfect! Then there’s the slot car racing side of things itself, the cars, the racing, the layouts, the dioramas. Some builders put incredible effort into the detail of the layout, whereas others focus on the accuracy of the cars, while some just want to go fast. And some builds are not cheap: https://www.slotmods.com/gallery Any thoughts or comments appreciated, whether exclusively slot car racing, or integrating them with railways, or adapting railway-related vehicles to move via slot based systems.