DJ Dangerous

Excellent information, but I would hardly consider any of those niggles as "obvious", and I cannot see how they leave a model which fails to capture the character of the prototype. The MM 201 was and is an awesome model.

If you need somebody to store the layout for you, I'm happy to volunteer!

It'll presumably bring a B&I ferry, KC and KD Dublin Buses, IRM 071's, 141's and Mk4 rakes! Oh, and obviously 47' Flats.

Well, the grey 071 re-sprays finally arrived today! The pandemic has slowed Chris Dyer down, and his painter, Tony, seems to be flat out. Well worth the wait, really impressed with these three!

I'd say there'll be a few happy modellers who missed out on the last batch!

I have set filters up for both irishrailwaymodeller.com and irishrailwaymodels.com, making sure that mails from those domains never get sent to SPAM. However, it's not that the email notifications are going to SPAM, they're just not arriving at all.

I just ship British eBay stuff to a friend in the UK. He brings a suitcase down here every now and then, which I pay for, and that works out way cheaper. eBay's GSP often quotes more for shipping than the item itself costs, so it's just not worth it.

Hi Guys. Just wondering if the site is having issues with email notifications at the moment? I'm not receiving email notifications of private messages or thread updates the past couple of days. I've checked my notification settings here on the forum and they are definitely correct. I've also checked my SPAM folder, and the odd email does end up in there alright, but nothing at all the past few days. Thaks!

Sure why bother with clouds? All you need is a nice winter blue like this morning:

The video won't play properly for me. Audio only, just a white screen for the video. Happens from time to time - somebody mentioned before that Apple or QuickTime uploads are problematic? Upload the video to YouTube and then share the link here and more people will be able to see what the problem with the couplers is.

Yeah, he's livin' la vida loca with them all.

Where do you think all of the NIR 111 Class went???

What's all this then??? Except on Black Friday, you mean...

Yeah, as @murphaph says, I think that @LMSNCC means that they'd have to buy more than one set of each, F, G or H, to create a prototypical-length rake. Renumbering, or weathering via somebody like @Dempsey and obscuring some of the digits would also work.

That's the beauty of the debate on the free market vs. price gouging... It's easy to see both sides of the debate. A3R was a very limited run, for a good cause. Many folk lost out as they sold out so fast. If you'd lost out to another enthusiast, you woudn't mind so much, as it's still gone to a good home, and the money went to a good cause, but if you lost out because somebody bought it solely to sell for double the price a month later, you'd feel hard done by. At the same time, I bought a few A3R's, three of which will be gifts next year. Looking at those prices, I feel sick NOT auctioning them off to fund the charity. I could pay for a lot of operations with an extra €400, or probably two or three weeks worth of food and medicines. Two sides of the same coin. Somebody will always feel aggrieved at losing out, somebody will always be looking to make a profit no matter the cost.

Any chance of hearing the two chips in a single video to compare?

If you post the link to where the photo is published online, maybe somebody will know who the author is.

Wow! So they'd make for good respray candidates?

Received another parcel, A3R now added to the collection!

I can't imagine anything better to invest in!

Sound words of advice for those with a better half who doesn't like them spending money on trains.

I'd say that this one is gonna make €400! Definitely a lot of demand out there... I blame IRM for this! https://www.ebay.es/itm/144319620996

Eh???

Not a chance!

Just received my first parcel of A's in the post today. A few more parcels slowly winding their way down here. Had a quick glance in between jobs, and have to say, wow, what a loco. Won't get a chance to run any of them for a while, but they look stunning, out of this world. The level of detail is phenomenal. One question: Are the CAWS protective guards, or will they be, available seperately? They'd be a smashing for upgrading some of the IR locos in their most recent guise.