DJ Dangerous

Just saw this in the news, GWR Class 800's are falling apart... https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-57036247 Got me thinking, though, that they look very very similar to the 22000's. Some nice side-views here: https://www.hattons.co.uk/newsdetail.aspx?id=253 I wonder if they would make passable repaints? Does anybody have a similar 22000 schematic for comparison?

Do I recall correctly, that Tara Junction holds a hidden Enterprise set somewhere? Does the 2600 run?

I guess it's a bit of a gamble, but since the €25 IRM Local Link buses are already for sale at €65, with no honesty regarding paintwork finish, Irish stuff being in demand is a surety for the next few years at least. Even Hattons are now gouging, with second-hand SuperTrain Mk2D's priced at £65 STG each... And selling out in a few hours at that price.

You'd be better off spending your cash on a few extra A's or 121's, then swapping them for what you want in a year or two, when they themselves go for extortionate prices. You'll save €€€€€ if you're prepared to do it that way and wait.

I saw those two this morning. Not as terribly priced as some! But, the bidding will inflate the prices to silly levels.

When you guys relocate manufacturing to the Canarias for the low wages, relative proximity to Ireland, multilingual employees and nice weather when doing your plant visits, I know a guy who'd be great at product testing...

But staying on the ground after falling defies the laws of physics. It should evaporate straight away, apart from the odd exceptional occasion.

Probably so that when kids bash each others heads in with them, the buses survive. Metal-bodied railway stock would probably lead to the trains weighing too much for the locos.

I'm in that boat, day job plus voluntary work at nigh. 3D printing, manually soldering fifty million solder balls or whatever, I wouldn't dream of inside the next twenty or thirty years. To tempt me, it would have to be RTR / PNP. I wouldn't expect a huge range, just the basics to be able to run some trains.

Why is the ground wet?

I think that a far more important question is: When will we have IRM 47' Flats?????

You have the correct red-oxide bogies in the image. The black are only ten or fifteen years old (thanks to JHB for that info elsewhere), so wouldn't have run with the A Class. I think that where models are concerned, only the IRM spoils have black bogies, but I'm open to correction. I mentioned it in case you wanted to add a note in the text box in the centre, saying "red bogies only" or something to that effect.

As per warbonnet's post, the A Class didn't haul the Mk3's. We don't yet have any of those coaches RTR so they may just clutter the graphic rather than adding utility.

Awesome sauce! I think that the container liners would only have been the red-oxide-bogie ones, not the black-bogie ones. Not sure if that's worth noting.

The casting at the front looks a bit rough, and the painted window frames are a little funky, but at that price, you'd be mad not to pick up a handful! They can easily be angled to show their better features, or sat in the background. Excellent to accompany those IR livery A Class locos, I imagine? Thank you for offering them to us!

Shapeways 201 with a few Mk3 repaints would look awesome!

As far as I'm concerned, definitely! The buses that you've run show how well Irish vehicles will sell, and if you're looking at the possibility of mixed plastic like the Brekina's, and diecast chassis or something, the level of detail could be even higher. Whatever you choose to run, it's likely to sell very well!

Yes!!! Hell yes! There are so many "Irish" type vehicles, from the Hino trucks to the Japanese cars to the Renault 4 vans! One topic that I had hoped to research properly before posting, and have not yet done so, is IRM Oxford commissions. What would the chances be of some commissions like this, with current Oxford vehicles commissioned with Irish liveries, either individual vehicles or era-appropriate multi-packs? For example, An post, Telecom Eireann, Eircom, ESB, Bord Gais etc. A set of eighties vehicles displaying the logos and designs of several Irish companies, a set of 1990's vehciles, a set of 2000's vehicles, a set of 2010's vehicles, a set of 2020's vehicles and so on. Also, the Oxford Tayto truck must have another Irish application, even an Irish utilities vehicle, plus their DAF 2800's and 85's? I haven't done proper research but since you ask, this seems the right time to make the suggestion. I have some 1:87 Brekina Renault 4 vans but they are just too small alongside the 1:76 vehicles. Please please please look into the possibility of some Oxford commissions, in the interim while pondering building your own range!

You'd better stay off the forum for the next couple of months so! See you in September.

Don't you think that maybe that's like saying fifteen years ago that one would only be tempted into Irish modelling if there were a full selection of locos, coaches and wagons available from the start? Surely a launch with a handful of products, if such a project were ever to reach the market, would be sufficient for starters? Flexible track, one medium LH point, one medium RH point, wheelsets for one loco model and wheelsets for IRM wagons... Five products at launch that would allow a huge amount of modellers make a start. I have about 60 metres of 16,5mm track that I would sell in in a heartbeat if 21mm were made easy. One loco, say for example the A Class, and IRM's post-ballast chassis, with pop-in 21mm wheelsets and boom, we're at a level that Irish modellers could only have dreamed of! A year later, and maybe we'd get 21mm bogies for the Mk2D's and 21mm wheelsets for another class of loco.

Surely if the conversion was made very easy, ie interchangeable wheelsets for the locos and wagons, and new bogies for the coaches, you'd take the dive? I'm sure that I read somewhere on here that the MM bogies are not easy to adapt to 21mm, so they'd need plug 'n' play bogies to pop in to tempt me over to the 21mm side.

Only the odd Dustin cameo, any more and it'd be unbearable.

Could we not have Zig and Zag doing them instead?

Ah, he's alright. He has a nice voice for narration, and his videos are aimed at teens and pre-teens who are saving their pocket money each week for a new Hornby loco every few months... Not exactly the same target group as MM and IRM!

Who? George?