DJ Dangerous

Here we are, literally two years later, and I am happy to say that I received a letter from Customs yesterday, looking for money before they'll release my RPSI Mk2 coaches. Been a long wait but I'm sure they'll be worth it. What does that "Page does not exist" thing in my last post, mean, @BosKonay? Had I posted a link to a thread that has since been deleted?

Cheers for that, @Georgeconna. I avoid RMW, even though I have an account, as there are just so many angries on there. I'd spend my whole time arguing and defending people, never actually getting anywhere. So the brake blocks are redundant for 21mm running? Are they glued on or friction-fit?

Can let you have one of them for €100. Have a mule heading up on Tuesday who may be able to bring it up and meet you during the week. Would have to be Dublin. Alternatively, I can post it. Got a postage price for @MOGUL last year, similar size parcel, think it was a little over €20, not fully sure. Bought these direct from BenBenModels in China. They had them for sale for something silly like €160 or €170, so I made an offer, then we haggled, and settled on €100 each for the six. This is their eBay store: https://www.ebay.es/str/onelink888 They currently have KP's at €65 to €70 each.

I hope that Bangor is a good weekend for the DCDR, along with everybody else!

Can the bogies themselves be widened by splitting down the centre and padding out? Few eBay items that may be of interest to somebody. Four Murphy Models 121 Class locos for €585 EURO: https://www.ebay.es/itm/315237495493 Three IRM NIR coaches for €345 EURO: https://www.ebay.es/itm/126370551473 Three LIMA NIR coaches for €225 EURO: https://www.ebay.es/itm/315237476900

IRM and Accurascale websites tend to be glitchy on the mobile. Tried ordering Warwell's from Accurascale the other day, the ones with the GPS bogies... NO bloody shipping available to Canarias, wagons sold out in minutes, yet I received an Accurascale order of HUO's only a few weeks beforehand. I was tempted to book a flight up there and go throw rocks at your house! Pre-order button for oil tank wagons comes and goes. Definitely missing on desktop, refreshed the page several times and nothing, left it about ten or fifteen minutes and didn't pop up like it does on the mobile. Screenshots attached showing time-stamps. Running Firefox 123.1.0 on Android 8.1.0 and Firefox 124.0 and Windows 10 Home. Screenshots attached. Have not tried on iPhone nor using alternate PC browsers, but from other posters, it looks like the problem lies with the IRM websites not functioning properly on Firefox for Android and Windows. Also, oil tank wagons only appear under "Collections" but have no heading on the website. Screenshot attached. EDIT: Forgot to mention, disabling AdBlockPlus doesn't make a difference, I had thought that may have been blocking the button from popping up. You can see in the last screenshot that it's disabled for the page.

This is what I see, but after a few minutes, the Pre-Order button will appear. Sometimes takes one or two reloads, sometimes five or ten.

Say hello to the Raba F26 from DeAgostini. Parked alongside an Altaya DAF 2800 for reference.

Just keep refreshing the page. It will load eventually. It's like a plug-in or pop-up or one of those widget things, appears after the other ones like the chat and rewards have loaded.

It sounds like that would require a newly tooled chassis: I'm sure we'll see them eventually.

It appeared a few minutes later... Pretty "slick"...

Finely-detailed responses, give yourselves a gold Texaco star for those two.

Don't be so rigid bodied, no need to put a filler cap on the puns just yet. That was a greasy one, sorry. Also woefully Esso-teric.

Sucking Hell, this will loosely-brake the bank, I'm oilready in the red! EDIT: How does one pre-order? Clicking the green doesn't do anything, and there's no black button as with previous pre-orders:

Get somebody to record it for you using Bandicam or a similar program: https://www.bandicam.com/ Fabulous piece of software.

That's where the Canary Islands get even more interesting. For banking and finance, the Canaries follow Spanish law, so comply with the EU. Taxation here is legendary, and one of the reasons the mind boggles every time a British family without a word of Spanish between them decides to uproot, sell up, quit the jobs in Tesco, and open a bar here... You have four different bodies collecting tax; the local county councils (31 counties in Tenerife alone), the government (cabildo) of each island, the Canarian government and the Spanish government. Imagine trying to comply with the requirements of all four! It's not easy, believe me. You also have insitutionalized racism. Many (not all) Spanish view the Canarios as a lesser people, beneath them, who should be treated as such. The Canarian accents are mercilessly mocked online, the Madrileños being particularly fierce in this area. There are many stories of Canarian business people flying first class without checked-luggage, as there is such a high probability of their luggage going missing or being damaged when they land in Madrid. Anyhow, I digress, it all adds up to a very colourful life! Stolen from Wikipedia:

And therein lies the problem. The Canary Islands are not part of the EU for customs nor tax. They're an autonomous region of Spain with their own rules on taxation and customs. Any online purchases that come from outside the islands, be it Ireland, Spain, Germany, the UK or wherever, have to be "imported" and a valid customs declaration is required. An Post seem to have a massive massive problem understanding this, and it's exhausting dealing with them, never mind the frustration of having parcels re-sent over and over until An Post get it right. The jobsworths up in Madrid don't help. Forget to cross a "t" or dot an "i" on your CN23 and they'll reject your parcel up there, it won't get within 1,792km of the islands. It does teach you patience, though... I'll receive my NIR coach packs when everybody else is receiving their IR packs! Still, at least there's something to look at while being patient.

The item is small, the price is small or the run quantity is small? Like a bus would be small, or a Dutch Van would be small...

DJD Senior has just landed with a care package! Thanks to @skinner75 for the two locos, the IRM lads for finding some Dickie Tara's for him, and probably @WRENNEIRE for the three Mk2D's and the hand-painted Mk3 buffet, which I'm guessing DJD Senior bought from him at one of the shows. He's been hoarding stuff for me the last few years, and has more to bring down in October.

So... You mean to say that you're... Counting down to the countdown?

What ever happened to Leslie? The answer is at 02:40...

Thanks, @Warbonnet! Will report back with FlickR news later. I hope it's more buses!!!

Love the ITG style packaging! Think that the IRM lads are for more present on RMW than here the past year or two, bigger market so probably demands a lot more attention. I missed Colin's post, will go have a look for it, now. EDIT: Found Colin's post, for anybody interested: https://www.rmweb.co.uk/forums/topic/166677-mark-2b-by-accurascale-and-irm/page/42/#comment-5463113

With three of the current four IRM buses about to sell out, it feels like it MUST be time for another bus announcement! So, who's taking bets on the liveries? Where's that @warb fellow with his shots of obscure liveries?

Brilliant, thank you! And, did RV496 only run Coastal Tours, or did it also run regular routes? So, if one were to buy an extra RV496, could they slap their own destination scroll on the front? And: