DJ Dangerous

Connemara is lovely, very much like Canarias, enjoy! Looking forward to the updates.

Not a container, but a hello to forest fires again, yay:

How is this progressing? I'm very curious about how you find O-16,5 / NG7. Rails seemed to be pushing O-16,5 / NG7 in their emails for a couple of weeks, and the stuff really did look lovely! This was the standout for me: https://railsofsheffield.com/products/quarry-hunslet-0-4-0st-britomart-pen-yr-orsedd-quarry-blue-steam-locomotive

Much as I WANT it to be an 800, or a Merlin, this quote from @Garfield has me swinging more towards a WT: Something to haul those beautiful RPSI Cravens sets and Mk2 sets: https://www.steamtrainsireland.com/rpsi-collection/4/no4

Tesco Italian Mixed Peel... How drunk were you to suggest that?

Had to log into YT to give the video a like there, too! Well-earned!

All four packs now in stock at Mark's Models: http://www.marksmodels.com/?cid=51

Perhaps one of our lovely mods could merge some of the threads already covering this topic: https://irishrailwaymodeller.com/topic/486-young-blood https://irishrailwaymodeller.com/topic/6511-the-importance-of-toy-train-sets https://irishrailwaymodeller.com/topic/8779-the-joy-of-train-sets https://irishrailwaymodeller.com/topic/8439-why-is-the-younger-generation-not-getting-into-irish-railway-modeling https://irishrailwaymodeller.com/topic/9858-forum-use/ It's not like @BosKonay has anything better to be doing on a Saturday morning while his head feels like a pack of monkeys fighting over a bucket of marbles. Plenty of food for thought already posted, for young @LNERW1.

Agreed, some are advertised for silly money, but those two, if it's an Irish buyer, will also have tax charged, so it gets even sillier. €60 is fair for a bus, and you can stretch that a bit, but €90 or €100 or €110 is insane. And then tax on top!

You were supposed to post pics of the models, not the real-life prototypes.

One solitary IR / ST hybrid livery 141 in stock with IRM, no. 174: https://irishrailwaymodels.com/collections/in-stock/products/174s-class-141-irish-rail

Two Dublin buses, out of my price range but may suit somebody... BritBus R702 yellow and blue Dublin bus for €113: https://www.ebay.es/itm/387187499978 BritBus R707 yellow and blue Dublin bus for €90: https://www.ebay.es/itm/387187495975

And what a beautiful setting for them, I should have added!

LOL, “suffering” is a bit extreme. The UK haven’t caught up with the rest of the world for customs and importation, yet. When they swallow their BrExit pride and start checking thoroughly, it’ll be the same as everywhere else.

Fuel oil tanks looking superb, @ttc0169. Perfect behind 018. Was only chatting with @murphaph about that the other day, how they might look behind a ST loco.

Cracking stuff as always, @ttc0169!

An addition to the 1:18 family; a Kyosho Supra! Proper photos another day. These babies usually go for hundreds, but I got this one cheap as there was no original box, and the doors are looser than they should be.

The Scania 141 and DAF 2800 side by side. Interesting to see the sun dropping out from the calima before disappearing beyond the horizon. The calima is not actually cloud, but sand suspended in the air.

LOL, I find new ways to motivate you... Five points if you can name the source of that quote. Only two of the Bulleid Open parcels had the ICS2 labels, the two that were delayed at CAM4 Madrid. The rest arrived a week or two earlier, with no ICS2 labels, hence my confusion.

An interesting parcel arrived the other day - time for some Sam's-Trains-style floor running, methinks!

Everything for me follows the same route, has forever: Dublin - Portlaoise - Dublin - Heathrow - Madrid - Huelva - Taco - local delivery. So did these two pop over to China or somewhere on their way?

ICS2 Destination... My last two parcels of Bulleid Opens were delivered yesterday, a good week or two after the first arrived. Both of these parcels were held back by Customs in Madrid, then released, no contact or anything, just held back and subsequently released. Both are labelled as "ICS2 Destination", but nothing else was labelled as such. My understanding would be that mainland Spain is an ICS2 destination, as with the rest of the EU. As Canarias have their own Customs and tax regime due to their autonomy, are they also an ICS2 destination? Or was that likely a labelling error, and the reason behind the subsequent delay? Or does anything passing through the EU before going to a non-EU destination need such labelling? I can't remember ever seeing an "ICS2 Destination" label on a parcel here before. Normally, for Canarias, the An Post staff behind the counter have to fill out an AED, basically a digital declaration, and the parcel must also have a physical CN23 decalaration attached. If either is missing or incomplete, or the info on the two conflict, the parcel will be rejected and returned to the sender. Does ICS2 mean that a third declaration is now required for Canarias, the ENS or whatever it's called?

So, you're saying that we can force IRM to operate a Trunk Service for us by adding something not expected for a long time to our basket?