DJ Dangerous

Customs declaration for 31420 presented this morning… Now, we play the waiting game.

Here you go: https://touch.adverts.ie/models/model-railway-irish-fertiliser-wagons/36382155

Same seller always has heavily marked-up Irish stock…

What liveries did the single-door variants carry?

I feel that it would be a good idea for one of the mods to merge these three threads into one: https://irishrailwaymodeller.com/topic/18164-order-confusion/ https://irishrailwaymodeller.com/topic/18106-irm-is-changing https://irishrailwaymodeller.com/topic/18073-irm-wagons Maybe a title like "Please Bear With Us as IRM is Evolving" or something like that. There are going to be teething issues for sure with such a big change. A lot of customers are going to be inconvenienced to some extent, not "only one". It's possible that AS are at the point where resources that should be dedicated to getting the move smoothly executed are instead being lost on trying to keep up with assuring us that they're dealing with things. I've been trapped in that rut several times myself, whereby instead of dealing with our guests, I'm using the only time I have to tell them that I WILL deal with them once I finish telling everybody else that I will also deal with them. Merging the three threads running simultaneously on the same topic would be a start, and if somebody had an issue that is genuinely urgent, they can see the general progress via the thread. I'm sorry that people are having issues, I feel for you (and for me) and for IRM. I'm sure that this time next month, we'll all have our wagons and be happy as pigs in sh1te.

Another nice bus from TTC Diecast! Mine arrived today, incredibly fast for something originating outside the archipelago.

That’s class! Where did you apply lube? The hubs or axle points?

That’s dead handy! It didn’t seem that way, but great to know that it is.

The only downside lately is that the replies from support no longer include the mail that they’re replying to, so if you have given references or order numbers, you have to do it all again for the next mail. Those blue 55’s ARE gorgeous, though!

Shipping notification for my Class 31 received! Yay!

Amazon Photos reminded me that Hatton's delivered this beauty two years ago today, 92038 in Caledonian Sleeper livery:

Currency box hidden away way down the bottom. Should be top right corner or top left corner, ideally, but at least it’s there.

Found it HERE, thanks! They also mention the couplers being stiff and a little higher, but that probably only affects those doing lots of shunting.

Boluda 4TG1 container no. BOLU-4964503 back on February 4th, when they were re-branding the CEPSA petrol station at Fañabe to Moeve. Funny seeing dinosaurs in that video! Don't think I've ever seen a 4TG1 before.

And don't forget: There's a man there who knows a man...

They look gorgeous! What's that scraping sound as the train leaves?

Might not be price-gouging if they paid: ...extra. Has happened to me several times, not necessarily IRM stuff, just with Customs in general.

You’ve just opened the floodgates to Hell!

Gerry Hoey / Millipede on Adverts.ie always has good value Irish stock for sale.

Looks to be AnyRail.

This looks gorgeous, absolutely lovely, and 2+2 = 29000 or 2600?

Helix0_8 is Tom of Irish Freight Models: https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?sid=helix0_8 Has a few other bits and bobs listed, too.

That there is a big part of the problem. The track is not available to everyday modellers, it’s hidden behind paywalls and membetship fees and secret societies. 21mm would be doomed if it followed that same route, if it ever started in the first place. If a modeller goes onto the Accurascale website, Mark’s Models website, Rails of Sheffield website, or wherever, they’ll buy track that’s either in stock or available to order. The majority won’t find the 21mm option, or even know of it’s existence, if it’s hidden away. People say that 21mm is a niche within a niche, and they are correct, but keeping it a secret from the majority of modellers won’t change that. I’d be happy to be involved in crowd-funding 21mm track, but only if it was going to be exposed to a broad audience. None if this hiding it away nonsense.

You're probably all correct, and I'm just too optimistic about the hobby growing and more modellers buying track further down the line... See what I did there? For information, IRM already design and promote almost every single model as 21mm-friendly. Only the very first releases were 21mm-unfriendly. I, and most modellers I speak with in private, now take this as the standard for Irish models, thanks to IRM's perseverence. A 21mm-unfriendly model would be quite a surprise - save for something like a steam loco where it proves unfeasable or impossible. Forgot to add that the 2024 run of Mk2D's from Murphy Models were also 21mm-friendly. To the naked eye, Murphy Models locos to date don't look to be 21mm-friendly, but I haven't measured, and members have converted them to 21mm:

That's why I feel that it would be a big marketing clanger if nobody were to cash in on this over the coming months / years. Agree a set of standards, publish them, tool up that one 8-sleeper piece, and start printing money. If there's demand for a set of points further down the line, then yeah, risk the investment, but all that's needed at first is some basic track, to hook more modellers into 21mm.