DJ Dangerous

I think that the push-pull sets were usually five coaches and a DVT. Agreed on 303 and 304!!!

Hornby 201's on the way? Whatever PM does, he will have a huge amount of support, as will IRM. The debt of gratitude that we all owe to both for bringing us to where we are today is huge. Hopefully, we will see more 141's / 181's some day in the not too distant future.

So if we see a 141 / 181 release, it'll be a solo Bachmann project?

Very special package arrived today! Thanks to @murphaph for giving me the heads-up. These things are like gold dust.

I'd say they mean that sounds disgraceful.

Fingers crossed that the releases are phased to allow us time to harvest organs etc. IR Mk2D's first, please!

That sounds like a threat!

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Would ye all stop??? The most important model to date, in my opinion, is IRM's P42 chassis. Many of the models have been game-changers or catalysts, but because of P42, modellers everywhere lost their shit and bought up every single 071 that had been gathering dust on retailers shelves. 121's were lashed out of it because modellers were starved of locos to haul their P42 rakes. Hopefully, there will be about three times as many A Class locos on offer as there were 121's, and that will bridge the gap to the next rolling stock.

The photo shows a Mk3 coach, as per @Noel's comment. Nobody makes genuine Irish Mk3 coaches RTR. Yet... Silver Fox offer good representations of both mainline and suburban versions. They're doing their next batch of them later this year, but I can't remember when exactly. They're not currently offering the DVT's to accompany the suburban coaches for push-pull sets, but hopefully that will change. Or maybe IRM will release genuine Irish Mk3 push-pull sets! Lima did some repaints, and they pop up second-hand from time to time. Silver Fox Mk3's:

I don't want to get into a debate on anything too divisive, but I'm pretty sure that nobody here on the forum was around 100 years ago. I mean, maybe @jhb171achill was, counting Tin Vans, but the rest of us weren't. We have a nice little forum here and we all help each other out. I'd hate to lose that over whose fault a problem from hundreds of years ago is, even though the impact is still felt today by many.

What? Are you saying that George Bush took all of the gold reserves out the night before and kept them for himself?

What is the limit, and how is it controlled? Is there one limit for all non-EU countries combined, or a limit for each one individually? As in, is the limit X from China, Y from the US, Z from the UK, or a limit on the total of X, Y and Z? Liar! Vaccines are a preventative measure. That horse has long bolted.

With the Tin Vans, were there several on each train or just one? Were all Tin Vans heating vans, with some being multi-purpose such as HLV's! Or were there some that were not heating vans?

Models or fish?

Wow! I had guessed that maybe there were a handful of stragglers, but not that many. What percentage are in Spain?

Tastes like monkfish, duh.

Not disagreeing at all, but I think that there's already a thread somewhere on the forwarders. I'm sure that NIR was speaking strictly from the taxation side of things rather than the incredible utility of these services. Such a shame that they're now redundant - lots of UK sellers, selling Irish stuff, and won't ship to Ireland. I'm not sure whether that's tragic or comic.

Actually, Hattons have gone to shit lately. Their packaging is a joke, both the exterior and interior, they are falling down on paperwork and they don't know what they are doing regarding shipping. This is an ideal opportunity for somebody to take their mantle. The only thing going for them at the moment is excellent customer service. Agreed on the Marks website. It looks like something that a scammer would have built twenty years ago, and it's very diffiicult to spend money with them as a result. Hats off to IRM. Their store is the business, their prices are perfect, their shipping rates are too good to be true, their range, both home-grown and bought in is ever expanding, and their customer service is flawless. BrExit, whether one is in favour of it, against it or on the fence, is offering an opportunity in the face of crisis for Irish retailers to expand their online presence massively. I believe the Japanese call it a crisitunity, but don't quote me, quote Homer Simpson.

Only a matter of time and I'm sure IRM will offer us a Trunk service. That will make hattons largely obsolete, except for the odd second-hand Lima coach.

Models in nurses uniforms or diecast models?

I'd say that we need to give things time to settle. BrExit is new, we don't know where we're going with it, we don't know if there'll be any political spats between the UK and European countries in the future to make things worse, or will they both sit down at a table and agree that it's ridiculous dividing rather than uniting, and agree on some common tax and import / export policies which make things better. What is that phrase, hope for the best and prepare for the worst? With that in mind, assume that you'll pay 20% or so on top of everything you spend in Britain, and if you don't pay it, or can reclaim it, it's a bonus.

I'll have that, thanks very much!

Of course it's to do with BrExit. The whole goal of BrExit was to limit freedom of movement of people, goods and services, in other words, to "take back control". The double taxation will happen if the seller does not properly declare that tax has already been paid, OR if you use a third party mail forwarding service like AddressPal. In using a third-party service like that, you are doing as @NIR says, and having a product delivered to the UK, then subsequently exported to Ireland, almost like it's being sold a second time. There is no friction at all when in one EU country and buying from another EU country - you pay whatever tax is due when you buy, and that's it, it's delivered to your door. It's when you buy from or sell to a third country, be it China, the UK, the US or wherever, that the extra paperwork and the friction comes into play. Hattons though, for example, are VAT registered in some EU countries, so in theory, once they actually declare that the VAT has been paid and don't forget to put a sticker on it (LOL @murphaph), it should arrrive while you're making your tea, no problem. Although, who the Hell drinks tea nowadays?

Sorry, I 'phoned them this morning and snagged the last Jinty.