DJ Dangerous

How old are you now, George? I'm a patient man...

Bumble Bee! Where have you been? How's that FB page coming along?

Settle down, lads, he's probably not gonna keel over just yet.

Those Bubbles look very light. Were they actually dark grey, or were they just painted in primer? I'm almost sure I saw DiveController ask a similar question in another thread. Sorry for going OT.

Have a feeling that in another thread, it was said that price point and delivery dates would be announced late summer, after gauging demand.

I got very excited for a moment and thought that you were releasing 323,583 of the post-1970 vans. I'll definitely take some of the latter two from you. Outstanding work, @Mayner!!!

Was it 234 that had the cracked chassis? Did they butcher her for parts to restore 232? What had been wrong with 232?

Ah well, we'll soldier on... How many IRM customers are based in Las Canarias, I wonder?

Does that mean that online sellers will have to charge 7% IGIC for sales to Las Canarias at point of sale, instead of selling VAT free? That would save a lot of headaches when receiving orders, having the IGIC pre-paid.

I suspect that most of the issues suffered by 121's come from a combination of poor packaging design this time around, ie the foam cradle, and the pressure that postal services and couriers around the globe were under during the first "Pandemic Christmas" last year. I forget the actual figures but it was something like three times the volume of parcels sent relative to previous years, with only half the staff working. Parcels were being drop-kicked around the planet, and no loco was going to survive every bounce, specially such a highly detailed one as the 121. I had hoped to hear an announcement by now on spares for them, though, agree wholeheartedly there. From buying my own and from reading accounts online, I'd guess that about a third of the models released need replacement vaccum hoses, hand-rails or both.

Ah, sure that's at least twenty years ahead of us...

Mk4's are old-timey coaches for the next generation...

Which you'd also pay on the full price one. Interesting that the grey 121's seem to be hanging around more than others. I see Hattons have quite a lot of second-hand 121's on sale these past few months. I wonder if they are units that were damaged in transit and returned to them, as I can't imagine anybody parting with a 121 willingly. Edit: I see that Hattons have added SIX damaged 121's for sale today alone.

I made that up, tongue in cheek to annoy the old guys looking for old-timey laminates and stuff. @jhb171achill ...

Yeah, at a hundred quid each. i'd rather twelve of IRM's forthcoming Mk4's or Paddy's Mk3's for the same price.

Bought it like that, almost half price so I couldn't say no!

Any chance that TTC can have a word and arrange a special triple-header for the last ever port liner? @ttc0169 You gonna start cycling down to Rosslare for liner photos, Rob? Give the legs a good auld stretch?

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Does anybody know much about Honowell diecast vehicles They have a very "Cararama" look to them, and seem to be around 1/72. These were bought a long time ago, maybe 25 years, and were lost in the depths until surfacing very recently, slightly battered, but nice nonetheless. Just wondering about the company and what happened to them. Thanks!

You and I both!

Murphy Models 171 and some IE livery Mk2D's to haul, please!

Oops, this thread appears twice! Maybe a mod could merge them?

First, more important than welcoming you to the forum, I get dibs on the Irish stuff if you sell up... Welcome to the forum! 10 x 10 is a huge space. You could literally run two different levels, and have both levels criss-cross the shed several times. At a guess, you could have two "peninsulas", one at each side, which would give four runs the length of the shed. If it were possible to squeeze in a fifth run, you could connect to the start of the first with a diagonal running above the rest of the track. As DC says, and as Noel pointed out to me previously, think long term and make your baseboards small enough so that they can easily be transported in the future. I'm not sure what fits comfortably across the back seats of your average car? Maybe 1000mm or 1200mm? Are you running DC control or DCC control? DCC means you can fit a lot more in as there's less need for complete loops. I've recently bought a DC Gaugemaster Shuttle controller to try on an end-to-end DC layout, but have no feedback to offer as of yet. Best of luck.

So they're perfect for completing rakes of IRM's last red Taras, while also perfect for anybody lucky enough to track down a grey 071!

Do I have this correct? These blue Taras will wear G1 (first gen) lids. The previous IRM red Taras wore G2 lids. These new red Taras will wear G3 lids.