DJ Dangerous

What's a dropper board, what can it do, and what will you use it for?

@murphaph suggested this to me a few months back, when discussing the Spoils. The Spoils are designed with the lugs as part of the load, rather than a small part glued to the deck, so when you remove the loads, you're left with a smooth deck. I think that there was one corner on each where the load was glued, so I have one yellow corner on each flat where the lug snapped inside the deck. Four tiny little balls of ProTastic Black Tack work perfectly, as you can see in the photos. I've actually used too much, as the flats can be picked up by the load and shook with no movement at all, so smaller balls (giggity) would have done the job. I ordered directly from ProTastic as it was out of stock on Amazon.de at the time.

Cue a new thread: The Buses of Ashburton Grove!

This is meant to be a family-friendly forum!

The modern side of you is slowly surfacing. Not long now and you'll have a load of yellow PW stuff.

You mean like 085?

Never one to miss out on a pun. You'll be on track with t-shirts, might go off the rails a bit if you dabble in y-fronts, though.

You guys are selling IRM merchandise now???

Sounds kind of like you do. Final product may end up costing the same to the consumer, but it's not the same product, not the same level of quality (think MM 121 and IRM A Class vs. Lima 201), not being sold to the same market, not being manufactured with the same economies of scale. Like comparing Chinese apples and American oranges. For somebody who wants a low-fi American loco, cool, go for it, but I want an IRM A Class, or two, or three, and that's not the same.

Not disagreeing with you, but the bottom line is that there would be no high quality ready to run models at affordable prices if weren't exploiting somebody, somewhere.

The Hornby shorties are awesome as they run around R1 curves, as do 141's and 071's!

Lots of media noise over trade wars with China at the moment. I hope that IRM haven't made any anti-China public announcements over the past twelve months! Can we have a hint as to the quantities, and of which A's, that are running low on pre-order, please?

If they come with a grey 071, SOLD!!!

Excellent, so they lasted a long time as they are. The cream and blue didn't last very long... Should have stuck with two-tone green!

Yeah, wouldn't want my Coco Pops tasting like sardines.

I assume that some sort of disposable plastic inner liner is used each time those tanks are filled?

The Leyland RH's would have run in this livery from 1995 until 2000, more or less? Was it the single-deck City Swifts that started in 1993? And then the blue and cream livery was born in 1999? Might be an idea to merge this thread with the other one on the same topic:

I haven't seen Dana's in ages! Don't see them in any of the recent YT videos. If there were two tanktainers (are they called spider tankers?) per flat, they were empty, so?

Two packages of awesomeness arrived today, with thanks to @WRENNEIRE for one of them!

Imagine another batch of 071's being ordered, aesthetically identical to the original batch for commonality of spares etc, but with brand new environmentally friendly innards! They could paint them in A Class lined green 'cause they'd be so green.

Thanks, TTC, that's awesome to know - so even one or two of those five would look appropriate in a mid-nineties layout with IR logos added?

Do you know when the IR logos were applied to those five Cravens coaches and when they were removed, TTC? Apologies if this question has already been answered.

Deadly, well planned and will look awesome!!!

Interesting thread. As JHB says, with no mention of Tin Vans at all, it's very important that photos such as these are watermarked with a warning before publishing or sharing privately. It would be a great idea to remove already published photos and replace with watermarked versions. It is impossible to imagine today the use / mis-use that may befall the images in the future.

I'm just not that privileged. For the next thirty years, my trains will be lucky to be run once every few months. The rest of the time, they are a daily reminder of the light at the end of tunnel. Most of my 121's were sitting back at an angle, with either broken or disconnected hand rails, and they have to be removed from the packaging entirely for display.