DJ Dangerous

They only launched their UK sister company last year.

I guess that there must be a saving using plastic over diecast in manufacturing, the trade-off being weight loss, but as you say, it allows or a much greater level of detail.

Received a few of these beauties in the post today, Birmingham / WMT Leyland Fleetline buses from Rapido Trains UK.

My interest stems from having family live in Birmingham, aside from that, it's all two-tone green Dublin buses for me.

Hopefully, they are one of the "small" IRM announcements this side of Christmas.

These are plastic buses, not diecast, so they feel very light, but the level of detail is great.

They come with lighting, powered by two cables trailing from the underside of the bus which you connect to a 9V battery, but I have not tried this function.

The wiring could probably have been designed slightly better - a friction-fit or magnetic clip to connect the cables to the underside of the bus, rather than having them trailing permanently, but overall, they're lovely models.

2 minutes ago, murphaph said:

I'd need to build an extension to house the plane first!

Sure no better man!

7 minutes ago, murphaph said:

Would be nice to see MM re-release the 201 in the delivery livery. Was 220 the only one MM did? I'd like no. 201 in her 1994 outfit anyway.

203 and 220 in the original livery, then 201 and 210 in the yellow-face livery.

One of these would go really well with a '94 livery 201:

https://www.amazon.com/ANTONOV-124-100-RUSLAN-AIRCRAFT-MODELSVIT/dp/B010SVO1DW

https://www.ebay.es/itm/331422674305

https://www.ebay.es/itm/403289859078

https://www.ebay.es/itm/373769074869

6 minutes ago, connollystn said:

@DJ Dangerous - The only good thing about that video is the backing-track, The KLF 'Last Train to Trancentral'.

Hard man to please!

34 minutes ago, connollystn said:

@Westcorkrailway - Silverfox should not be mentioned on the same website (or planet) as I.R.M. Can't even say that their attempts at modelling Irish railway prototypes are a dogs dinner because if I did then my dog would starve himself to death - he's not a fussy eater but has his limits. 

At one stage, Silver Fox were almost the only option we had, and their Mk3 Suburbans and DVT's, while not MM or IRM standard, are not bad:

6 minutes ago, connollystn said:

By the way, I've a feeling that the I.R.M. As are the last sub-€200 model locomotives of Irish prototypes. That sort of quality and detail is just going to get dearer.

I don't mind paying €200 for some grey 071's and some NIR 071's!

8 minutes ago, Westcorkrailway said:

A3R was considered a “small announcement

The only other thing I remember IRM working on is the footbridge project. I’m sure we will get an update on that In one of the next, oh I don’t know …..15 announcements

 

Just a reminder to everyone that MM might have 201s coming next year……

im going to have to stick to an era or I’ll be skint 

Small announcement my backside!

For the next locos, I'm going with:

1. steam loco

2. 141 / 181 / 071

3. C Class

For the "powered" one, it's obviously a 22000, but if the worst comes to the worst, we'll settle for a 2600...

Any update on those MM 201's? It's gone awfully quiet on that front.

1 minute ago, connollystn said:

I feel that he doesn't have much knowledge on many of the items he's reviewing that's why he spends ages removing models from their' boxes. On the Westerns [BR Class 52] he was surprised to find a third axle on each of the bogies and, on another, was disapointed to discover that the centre axle was unpowered - not realising it was an A1A-A1A wheel arrangement [BR Class 31], allegedly. He should do a review of the I.R.M. A class - it will take him years to remove it from the box.  

Hardly any of the YouTubers do.

They dawdle along to drag the video length out for monetisation.

On 8/11/2021 at 10:44 AM, Warbonnet said:

A couple of small ones, yes  

"Small" is too vague...

Small models, small runs, small prices, small baby on the way, give us a clue!

On 8/11/2021 at 7:17 PM, Flying Scotsman 4472 said:

Wife won’t be happy that’s next year’s summer holidays in the sun cancelled

Bring your weathering gear and we can work something out.

Working holiday for you, but at least it's in the sun.

On 8/11/2021 at 11:32 AM, murphaph said:

Is there any chance the new and improved bogies will be offered for sale separately to upgrade the older stock?

 

And the answer is...

On 15/9/2021 at 4:52 PM, BosKonay said:

They will be yes.

Jayus, why all the hate for Sam's Trains?

He has a nice voice, his videos are nice to watch for a few minutes, and his set-up probably resembles what many folk have as their only option...

All I have is a board that slides under the bed with a few mm clearance!

He does go on a bit, but I don't think that's the problem - I did an unboxing video a few months back, and it was about three minutes, yet there was still some yoyo on moaning about it.

45 minutes ago, Jarl said:

An excellent model and excellent customer service.

I had emailed IRM with a question about delivery last week at a silly time of evening, and got a response very quickly; some midnight oil burning going on there.

Have to second that!

Where I'm based, Irish shipping firms, be it An Post, GLS, DHL Scumbag Express, they all make a complete balls of things, over and over and over.

Any time I've had to email IRM, be it Fran, Stephen or Patrick that I've spoken with, they've been nothing but helpful and courteous.

I imagine that many companies would just say "To Hell with him, he's the only one down there", but the IRM lads just don't give up.

Here's an example of the massive clusterduck that is An Post...

International flights resumed here in June 2020, and we've been free of lockdowns since then, yet this is the message on the An Post website, today:

Lastly, who are Digitrains and what sounds are these?

2 minutes ago, JasonB said:

Boy racer or midlife crisis, Dave. Or is it both  

Old-man-racer-life-crisis, I believe is the term!

Attached here is the updated list of A Class sound decoder functions, as posted here by @Warbonnet.

18.10.2021_-_A_Class_EMD_decoder_functions.pdf

Also attached is the list of A Class non-sound decoder functions, as posted here by @BosKonay.

Received these two little stunners in the post today; EP71 Turbos!

Got them from eBay.

My real life one is off the road the last few years, and will continue to be so for another few years.

These are supposed to be 1/64 but I'd say that they're closer to 1/70.

Too big for other 1/76 cars, but grand with 1/76 trucks and buses.

2 minutes ago, Robert Shrives said:

Brilliant room in the warehouse for the 80 class an MV then.... Hunslet might be a a squeeze on the left hand racks by the staff door ?! 

You mean for the Mk4 coach sets and 47' wagons, with a little gap left for a few thousand two-tone green Dublin Buses?

12 minutes ago, murphaph said:

Speaking of weathering....has anyone mustered up the courage to "do one" yet??

1 minute ago, Georgeconna said:

Ding Don g!...1 min later and the Wife brings these in....No questions asked just yet, .  I'll say I doing weathering again and some lads sent me these to do...Best I can come up with....the Postie is usually much later and she is normally out having coffee with the gals.

 

That's some amount of weathering! Buys you a lot of time in the shed to do a good job for those few lads!

5 hours ago, DiveController said:

Time to vote with your feet as they say. Companies will eventually get the message that a lot of goodwill (and quarterly targets) is lost this way

It's very rare that I get to choose the shipping company when buying. If there's an option, I'll choose anybody but DHL Express, but most of the time it's "Screw you and your island paradise, there's only one shipping option". Hattons are the only one I can think of who tell you who the different shipping companies are before actually making the purchase.

So glad that the A's are shipping via GLS and not DHL Express.

3 hours ago, Georgeconna said:

poor coaches, Were they tagged down there or before they arrived?

 

What do you know about tagging, eh? Sounds suspicious!

Roughly how much does one of those giant corrugated boxes that covers a loco or coach cost?

Likewise how much do those giant tarps cost?

I saw this lovely video on YouTube:

So they're finally out.

Same!

Received a few tracking numbers, all GLS.

Can't believe it, finally, only another month or two and they'll be here, in my hands!

11 hours ago, BosKonay said:

If you have specific carrier preferences just let us know! We can certainly spend a little less and not use DHl on a per customer basis if you have a strong preference just drop us a line. 

To DHL Express, I wish nothing but famine, pestilence and death, and the same to their families, friends and friends' families.

Had a call from DHL Express the other day...

€45 EURO parcel from Amazon, €3.15 IGIC due, €35 DHL Express handling fee...

And, that €45 included an extra €6 that Amazon had charged to cover possible import charges, ie the €3.15 IGIC.

Needless to say, I said no thanks!

They also had 188 and 080 the other day.

I see this for sale on Adverts.ie in case anybody is interested:

https://www.adverts.ie/toy-cars-trains-boats-planes/model-railway/25188443

I've bought from this seller a few times and they are genuine.