DJ Dangerous

Will there be an orange and black version?

I guess that we will all have to be slightly patient with these models. It will take a few weeks, until Christmas, New Year and Reyes are out of the way, before retailers have received solid enough data from their customers on what percentage of each loco suffers from what defects. More reliable from PM's point of view to deal directly with retailers and use the data that they have gathered from their customers after the Christmas presents have been opened and run, rather than deal with some retailers and some of the retailers customers. Frustrating from our end, I understand. For example, it sounds like half of them have damaged vacuum hoses, so of the 6348 odd that were produced, PM probably needs to order 3500 spare vacuum hoses from the factory. There's no way that he could have foreseen that, so won't have that many spares in stock straight away. Likewise with the faulty speakers that some members have reported. But, it may then take a few months for PM to actually receive what he orders from China, and hopefully, the spares arrive undamaged and free from defects. IE, that the replacement vacuum hoses actually fit the hole in the buffer beam where the broken ones have been removed. Regarding the cool LEDs where there should be warm, would a possible fix be PM sending out sticky lenses that customers stick over the cool light to change it to warm? If so, he could send a bag of say twenty lenses for each loco, and people can have several attempts at fitting them. A small recess in the centre of the lens would allow it sit correctly, or the sticky lens being the size and shape of the entire light housing, so alignment shouldn't be an issue. I'm just not sure if it is actually possible to change the shade with a coloured lens, to match the other warm LED. 129 has to be a general product recall, a la the ST Mk2D's. There's no way to rectify the two red lights without offering to do it for people. More efficient to recall them all, and have somebody in Dublin re-wire white LED's in place of the second reds. I imagine that the majority were sold in Ireland and Britain, so returning them shouldn't cost an arm and a leg. The crazies with big balls like @murphaph would probably love the chance to rip one open and re-wire it, but there's no way I'd be attempting that, and I imagne that many folk would feel the same. At first, I thought that the new packaging looked much better, much safer, but the two IR's that I opened were both sitting back at around 30º, and shoved to one side. The coupling had been torn off one and was rattling around in the box. Easy to plug it back into the NEM socket, but it just shows that the new packaging didn't work. Bad form from the factory overall, and I really don't understand why they didn't do as somebody suggested to me, and put foam between the hand-rails and the body like the 141's and 071's. I imagine that PM is ripping out whatever hair he has left, but there won't be any quick fix. Look at how long it took for the locos to become available, and imagine how much stress PM was under while working his ass of at the project. I'll be test-running mine at Christmas, but not before, and I'll get back to my retailers with lists of any defects, if there are any. I'm sorry for anybody who has problems with theirs so far, but the solutions will be found through communication, perseverance and patience.

Marks don't like you.

Anybody else on the forum have a 129 with the wrong red / white lights? I wonder if the flickering is a QC issue from the factory, or results from some of the drop-kicking that DHL have been doing with the deliveries. Stupid question, sorry, but what are "vacuum bags"? Is that another name for the vacuum pipes? The ones that come in the bag with IRM models and you attach them to the buffer beam?

The same flickering or the same incorrect red and white lights?

Eeeewwwwwwwwwwww...

Just received the first of my IR 121's in the post. As with others, the box had lovely "Fragile" tape but looked like an elephant had sat on it. No void-fill (ugh, sounds like something you'd buy in a sex shop) so the locos had probably bounced around a little. Opened one of them, and it was sitting back at about 30 degrees inside it's packaging. One handrail loose, popped it back in place in a few seconds, no problem. I Just have to say, the loco models up until this point have been amazing, but this is something else. The decals, the see-through grilles, the tiny vents, the rivets, it's just mind-boggling how good it is. I have bought the grey ones, but they don't show the detail as well as this livery. This is just awesome. Fair play to Paddy Murphy. This is outstanding.

So the font for the numbers is the only difference?

What was the difference between mid seventies ST and mid eighties ST on the 121's?

Down to the last ten!!!

Hopefully, somebody else starts releasing buses like this, in bigger runs, so that they're available to buy rather than wink wink nod nod Facebook groups.

Ah crap. Time to start selling organs.

These are fantastic locos, sold for a fantastic cause. I'm sure the last few will sell very well. Apologies for dragging the thread off topic, it was just an attempt to keep it visible and boost sales.

That's the "problem" with being so successful! P.S.: It's your fault that there are no 071's available!

I have a feeling that they were not shipping as early as the non-Bundle Ballast and Gypsum orders due to stock-taking on the Ploughs, but am open to correction.

How about a twin pack of 303 and 304, Mk2D's in RPSI green, to compliment the green Bachmann RPSI coaches? It'd be handy if somebody was doing a run of IR Mk2D's and could run some for the RPSI at the same time! Thank you for the wonderful model of B134. I have sent two of them as Christmas presents this year!

I'm sure that there is another thread on this, too. I wonder if a mod would be kind enough to merge the two threads?

Are there more 121's on the way from China, or in stock with Murphy Models awaiting dispatch, or is that it? It's just that they seem to have sold out so quickly, literally in days on the IRM and Hattons websites! Still in stock at Marks Models, I know, but the pace of the sales is blinding at the aforementioned.

So you're saying that somebody modelling the mid nineties doesn't have to search too hard for an excuse to buy some CIE Ballast wagons?

I think that shipping and logistics companies are under a lot more pressure than usual, so maybe parcels are being handled more roughly. Less staff working, less transit slots available on ships and planes, a lot more being bought online than before. They are probably recruiting anybody that they can get their hands on, so we have the bottom of the barrel literally kicking our locos around in transit... I'm praying that my 121's are well protected with lots of internal packaging and survive the trip down here... 3000km as the crow flies, 4000km via the UK and Spain! I, too, received a Hattons order the other day containing many smashed and damaged display cases. That's the first time that has happened with a Hattons order, and I noticed that the internal packaging was poorer than usual. Fingers crossed that Christmas isn't spent packaging items for return!

Thanks! I did follow the link, but it's a private Facebook group... I can't even remember my FB password at this stage.

Awesome!!!!!

Marks Models' website still says "pre-purchase" . They've been green flagged for days now. Are they actually in stock at Marks? Or is this just a publicity stunt?

Noel, have you got an IR one of these weathered, yet? Won't notice the silver or white, then!

Brilliant news for all!