DJ Dangerous

If you send a PM to Arran, he'll reply with a list of what's appropriate for any era.

Do IRM have any Black Friday surprises lined up for us this year?

What's the flight number for today's lunchtime special???

So, if a manufacturer were to release two Laminate models, each of those in three different liveries, would it satisfy both the modellers desires for coaching stock from the 1950's through to the 1990's, and more importantly, would the manufacturer be able to run a large enough batch of each to keep the product affordable? I didn't realise that Kadee's were so NASA like as to have international standards etc. I was thinking more of their compatibility with current Cravens and locos, rather than with stock that they'd never be coupled to. As MP mentioned, would two wrongs make a right? Don't worry, I have OCD so I understand the obsession with uniformity, but I'm thinking of this from a practical or manufacturing point of view. A new coach is probably more likely to be coupled to a Cravens than to a class 37. Slightly off topic, on my own thread, so I guess I should punish myself for this, but why do the Cravens models have a much nicer paint finish than the ST Mk2D's? Is it that the Cravens were painted whereas the Mk2D's were moulded but not painted? If so, would the aforementioned two laminate models be better painted three different liveries or moulded from three different colour plastics? Were the interiors similar in colour for the three different exterior liveries?

That's fighting talk! Two wrongs always make a right!

It sometimes takes me weeks to find time to even unbox an RTR item, so kits wouldn't interest me at all. Maybe in thirty years time when I've already given up on life. Wouldn't that mean that the couplers on the new batch of Cravens would be at the wrong height relative to the current Cravens? As in, mixing the new batch with the old batch in the same rake would be difficult?

So the first ten years of the A have no compatible RTR coaching stock, even with a run of Cravens. Quite a dilemma for a manufacturer, on which to produce. What's wrong with the height of them? My Cravens and locos couple together grand, with the OEM TLC's. I'd rather see some blue and cream ones and some blue ones added to the mix. €160 a pop plus postage!

So 048 is a winner!

So would Cravens be an easier coaching model for a manufacturer to produce, to fill the coaching stock void that exists for the A's and 121's, since there were so few varieties and they covered a long period?

Brilliant question... If anybody could give a withdrawl date or stopped date for the upcoming models of the A's (and 121's), that would be wonderful! I'm logged in, and can click like for most posts, just not for BosKonay's.

Ha! But they did about ten years ago, because I saw people like his posts way back then... That's a long time on the naughty seat. A class twin-stripe / Tippex livery question. On looking through various photos online, it would appear that all three variations, the Super Train twin-stripe, the IR twin-stripe and the IR twin-stripe with day-glo panels, were running in the early nineties. Is this accurate? Did each of these liveries run on a batch basis or a by-loco basis?

Were there a lot more variants of the 1950's-built stock than there were variants of the Cravens? So the 1950's stock ran for about thirty years? And the Cravens thirty to forty years?

Thank you for the info! Why can't I click the like button on your posts?

Is there any chance, without being too pushy, of an announcement like we've received for the buses, the spoils etc, advising when each of the A's reaches a certain stock threshold?

"Real-X" do 1/72 Jap vehicles. Not exactly correct for 1/76 trains but close enough to not stick out.

With the Irish model railway market so small, it seems to be a feast or famine, either too much coaching stock sitting on shelves and no locos available to haul it, or lots of locos available and no passenger stock for them to haul. I recently cleared out most of Chris Dyer's Cravens, with the arrival of the A's and 121's impending. So, a question: What coaching stock would have been compatible with the largest number of both forthcoming models, ie what would have run the longest? I'm assuming that it was the Cravens? They ran from something like 1965 until 2006? So would go pretty well with a lot of the version of both locos. If so, is it likely that we will see somebody release more Cravens models over the next six or twelve months, to give these lovely locos something to haul?

Aw. We don't really do model shows down here, specially anything to do with trains... As we don't have any trains, no railway heritage, nothing... Except for that wierd one over in Gran Canaria in the seventies.

One has to be on FB to track these ones down?

If that's not true, or even highly probable, life has just lost all meaning.

That should keep some folk happy!

B121 is still available?

Ha!!!

Was the Olympian also painted in City Swift livery, and a City Imp style livery?

Ha! Awesome!

Absolutely outstanding, thank you!!!