DJ Dangerous

What a dilemma for IRM... After the Mk3 and Mk4 coach sets, the RoadLiner trucks and green buses, and the N Gauge sets that they'll surely launch with an 071 and some Mk3's, they have to decide on whether they'll first launch Irish track, or their HO gauge range!

It's definitely Silver Fox alright, now touched by the Hand of Noel, and slowly migrating a few thousand km south. Spoke with Chris of silver Fox and he told me that they used laser-cut mylar for the sides, allowing the flush glazing. From the photos, it's a world above previous versions... Probably another consequence of Paddy Murphy and the IRM lads raising the bar for what is considered normal nowadays!

On the roof of IRM Towers?

Just saw these two on Hattons website. Not very Irish but still, cheap flats for your containers.

Gobshites in the two factories, so. Running thousands of coaches for PM, and they only run three or four extra units of each! I mean, what was the point? They earned nothing from that. The price tags were aged, so they'd sat somewhere a few years before Jose of El Imperio bought them. If they had any sense in the two factories, they'd have run 2500 extra Cravens and 2500 extra Mk2D's. Set up 20 eBay accounts, sell two coaches per month from each eBay account, launder 2500 dirty coaches over 5 years, no problem. They'd have just about finished laundering the Cravens when the Mk2D's were produced, so the timing would have been perfect. Not that I'd know anything about scams like that, of course...

Yeah, doesn't it usually say "Limited" when there are more than 75 available? It's a brilliant tool for budgeting, working out which ones to buy, first.

I was just gonna say that! The bundles are great value, saving you 10% on all eight wagons. For the quality, both aesthetically and physically, you're not going to find better ready to run flats for the 40ft containers. Hattons have used Hornby 60ft flats every now and then, but they don't look very Irish. 47ft flats pop up on eBay every now and then, possibly IFM flats, for €50 or €60 each. Shapeways offer 3D printed flats which you then smooth and paint yourself, then add bogies etc. Somebody, possibly Robert, recently posted a thread of all of the different container flat kits that he built. There may be some inspiration and advice there if you'd prefer to build some instead of buying ready to run.

In simple terms, how would a supplier, be it MM or somebody else, prove that the items were not bought by one retailer from another, and that they were indeed over-produced by the factory without the permission or knowledge of the supplier? Would they have to do so through the courts in the country of manufacture? Sadly, China does not have the best reputation internationally for protecting copyrights and intellectual property, and I always wondered what would happen if one of the factories did something like this. How many models were over-produced without PM's knowledge?

IRM's Spoil Wagons should do the trick. Pop the spoil trays off and the containers should sit on the empty flats. C-Rail 40ft's should sit perfectly on the lugs.

Yeah, I got some Cravens from him, too. He bought them cheap from somebody who went out of business. He has a website, too, Hobby Empire, but has no physical shop.

Wow, awesome! Is one of the coppers peeing and farting in the background?

Still, they're asking for crazy money for them on eBay!

Not long now and we'll be able to recreate these scenes!!!

Looks like member 21mmP4's "Nenagh" layout:

The 21mm track really makes a difference, but there don't seem to be many videos of 21mm Murphy Models diesels out there:

Wow, the HO really looks far better relative to the track size!

Rail is a jillion times more environmentally friendly than road transport, so hopefully there'll be laws passed, forcing freight traffic to go by rail.

The CAF Mk4 sets are gone???

That's brilliant! Peace of mind for customers... I'm sure that I'm not the only one who was dreading January 1st. I'm sure that I read recently somewhere that UK businesses have openly stated that they won't be ready to adopt the new customs systems by January 1st, so whatever happens with a choke-up, it will probably be even worse than we can imagine! This is what I had been thinking of: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54706263

Is this BrExit preparedness?

A few re-gauged Class 43's would look well with the RPSI sets!

I think that anybody who buys from IRM / Accurascale will be receiving theirs from their British distribution centre.

Sorry, when are the 071's being re-run? There was a sudden surge in 071 sales this summer, and I firmly blame IRM and their bloomin' Project 42, with lockdown compounding wagons that were already almost impossible to resist.

Yeah, who lost their legs?

That last line is all I needed to hear to be able to sleep well tonight! And his sons are named Fran, Stephen and Patrick?