DJ Dangerous

Thanks, @Warbonnet. It felt kind of distasteful even wondering, but I’m probably not the only one.

Anybody ordering three boxes of models deserves bad karma. @GSR 800 can hook you up with a 3D printed one, so don’t worry if DPD hide yours in a wheelie bin or whatever.

So, with the tragic passing of Paddy Murphy, things like 071’s, 201’s, Mk3’s, Cravens and Dart+ have kind of faded away. Does anybody know what has happened to Paddy’s various projects, and his tooling from previous models? @Der Rechtsanwalt seemed to have a lot of inside info at one stage, on which projects were at what stage, and what order they were being produced in. I’m sure that some were actually in production last year.

I DID request grouping both orders together for shipping. Not combining the bills or anything, just shipping at the same time, and the lads said that they’d ship around the same time anyway. I wonder what the order for shipping is. Definitely not first paid, first shipped, anyway. Probably done geographically; Britain first, then Ireland, then the crazies like the US, then Europe, and at the very end of the queue, the massive group of Canarian customers?

Always handy to have some basement-dwelling troll taking screenshots of everything! So the Hunslets are already shipping? Damn, my Park Royals haven’t even shipped yet!

I’m sure more photos will pop up over time, showing coaches with and without taller seat backs at various stages. Personally, it’s not that big an issue for me - once the buffers and bogies are wide enough, I’m happy, and from the various photos and videos people have posted so far, these look stunning!

Wow, a lot of info and a lot of variety, thanks! Is it possible that some had lower seat backs as per the models? May have been a necessary manufacturing compromise to cater for both seated and unseated vestibules?

On reading the following post in THIS thread: It got me wondering about the internal floor plans, and how they’d have been modified over the years? Would there have been many changes? Would there have been many individual curiosities or would changes have been kind of uniform? Or wouid modificatons have been route-specific?

Park Royals looking stunning! Received notification that my order was being prepared the other day, so hopefully have it in the next few weeks.

It’s called the @Robert Shrives Effect. As soon as he builds something, a RTR version appears.

Amazing seeing the demand for O Gauge when the pricing is so good. Class 121, 122, 149 and 150 railcars went on sale on Thursday, and sold out the same day. In-stock went from 91 lines on Thursday to 60 a day later. That’s a serious amount of O Gauge out there. Saw somebody share this video of a Heljan Class 117 railcar on YT the other day:

Excellent to hear that there is no need for new wheelsets!

A container of life-ruining, bankrupting, homelessness-inducing pure joy. Once it’s something juicy like an 071, an A Class or even a 121, I’m in for a handful or two. 121’s would almost demand to be purchased in pairs, and they’re so tiny that you could easily fit six on a shelf. 141 / 181 or a C Class would inspire slightly less joy, but still joy nonetheless.

Shit, shit, shit, now I HAVE to commit to 4x…..

NIR 101 Class Hunslet no. 102, “Falcon”, at the Inchicore wheel lathe building, captured by the late Pearse McKeown, around 1980, on the IRRS Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/IrishRailwayRecordSociety/photos/a-most-unusual-visitor-to-ciés-inchicore-works-nir-101-class-hunslet-locomotive-/1453371561413940/

Although presumably not quite that if something Irish should happen to rumble along.

Ah here now, 1960’s can get to the back of the queue, behind the O Gauge 071, the radio controlled B&I ferry, the HOBS Autoballasters, the Ammonia wagons, the 47’ Flats, the CPW Container Pocket Wagons, the new container ranges, the Mk3 coaches and the Hino trucks.

Heljan O Gauge Class 25 available to PREORDER HERE, only €350 per loco. That’s bonkers cheap for an O Gauge diesel!

Jaysus, one order was enough for me!

Link in my previous post.

Park Royal order being picked!

They look like Dapol IOA wagons.

Hornby Mk3 coaches nice and cheap at Rails of Sheffield: https://railsofsheffield.com/search?q="railroad br intercity mk3"&options[prefix]=last

You and your nuts!