My understanding was that the plough vans were IRM almost doing us, the community, a favour. I bought some just to support IRM, even though I have only three ballast wagons to run with them. Missed out on the ballast wagons first time around.
IRM have been pretty clear on the forum about the cost, availability and demand of stuff which would be in small runs, like the plough vans, the brake vans, the weed-spray van, as they have with what's on the way, ie the "Project 42" thread.
We can always hope for a high spec van at some stage in the future, but the plough van run kind of proves the point on limited runs. They're still available both from IRM and from Marks Models. You can't have another non-profit run when the last one hasn't even sold out yet.
I'm delighted to see the weedspray train released asis, and with the hints and possibilities for what lies ahead.
Thank you for what you guys do!