DJ Dangerous

Finally something for the Irish Deltic to haul!

3 hours ago, Noel said:

Did the buyer of this not realise a Murphy Model version is coming out? €300 ????

https://www.ebay.ie/itm/124647734562?mkevt=1&mkpid=0&emsid=e11010.m1951.l6663&mkcid=7&ch=osgood&euid=18c8c980c353476583acd4e71f88ecbc&bu=44530438529&ut=RU&osub=-1~1&crd=20210329061719&segname=11010&sojTags=ch%3Dch%2Cbu%3Dbu%2Cut%3Dut%2Cosub%3Dosub%2Ccrd%3Dcrd%2Csegname%3Dsegname%2Cchnl%3Dmkcid

Struggling to see how many coaches there were for sale. Looked like three plus the DVT.

Not a bad price considering the price that the SIlver Fox Mk3's and DVT's retail at - and they don't seem to be planning any more batches of DVT's at the moment.

The MM ones could be a couple of years away, yet, as that was a huge announcement by MM, surely several years worth of stuff.

You unboxed them???

1 minute ago, ttc0169 said:

Riverside is on the lower level with everything else up top....

Yes anything is possible....I’ll put the wheels in motion....

Excellent, I can't wait!!!

How do you film the cab view?

A GoPro stuck to an IRM 42' Flat?

On 3/1/2021 at 2:25 PM, ttc0169 said:

Both upper and lower levels are connected by a single track-no room for a helix/

Are Lakeview and Riverside on the lower level, with Tara Junction and the bus depot on the upper level?

Any chance, some day, of a cab-ride around one level, then down the connection and around the other level?

The last driver training video was fabulous!

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.

21 minutes ago, the Bandon tank said:

Is that a CIE M class coach I see in the background. Behind the crane ?

Cue a new thread: The Buses of Ashburton Grove!

1 hour ago, Rob said:

too long for my taste.

Wash your mouth out!!!!

This is meant to be a family-friendly forum!

23 minutes ago, Noel said:

I have another 085 which I bought in Marks Models about 7 years ago.   

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

44 minutes ago, Noel said:

I suppose there should be an IR tippex 071 hauling that set.

You mean like 085?

1 hour ago, Warbonnet said:

It's something we are considering. We must start a thread and gauge demand! 

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.

31 minutes ago, BosKonay said:

I'm sure once travel restrictions are lifted, Gareth would love to return to the factory (with his IRM T-Shirt on this time ) 

You guys are selling IRM merchandise now???

35 minutes ago, ShaneC said:

Don't want to get into this again but just saying - not all models are produced in China or the Far-East and the final product ends up costing about the same, maybe it's the margins that take the hit.

On another note though - the Chinese region/city most model train factories are located in has some of the highest safety regulations and wages in the country, so it's not like they're being produced in sweatshops. Rapido said in 2018 (when they moved their factory elsewhere for these exact reasons..) that the wages they were paying to the workers there were close to on-par what they'd have to pay to workers in the US, though Chinese workers on average work more hours and have crazy levels of productivity / efficiency.

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.

4 minutes ago, Georgeconna said:

 

 

People tow the Party line, China at best is a shadowy place complete with poor work practices. Maybe slowly changing but I personally would not live there no matter how great the lads are, It only for the Yankee Dollar they please.

 

 

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?

3 hours ago, Noel said:

Test run for the recent rake of mk3 coaches comprising 7 resprays from various Hornby/Lima donors and one Lima Murphy Model coach bought on ebay (7140). All lightly weathered except the RTR Lima Murphy Model example as I'd like to keep that as produced.

 

PS: Desperately modern for my era so might auction them off for a charity later in the year.

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.