DJ Dangerous

Does anybody have photos of the finished item? Any plans to run the kits again, @Mayner?

How do I add a shop under the "Shops, Manufacturers & Services" section? I'd like to reccommend a Spanish diecast shop that I've bought from several times over the past few years. They offer worldwide shipping, flat rate for Ireland, the UK and the EU, and currently list almost 800 1/43 scale (O Gauge) vehicles. The options to add seem to be greyed out or missing altogether. Thanks!

That's the chap I was thinking of in the Ian McNally eBay thread, the one buying Lima coach packs on Adverts.ie and Facebook for under €200 and advertising them on eBay for near €300 straight away. Couldn't think of his name! You know that you can trim everything after the item number from the url, right? As in: https://www.ebay.ie/itm/126014532749

My decoder left Heathrow near midnight last night!

Love it! I've seen videos before where the loco revs up before moving off. How do they do that? Holding two buttons on the controller at once?

So @Tullygrainey was on the money about the motor!

Ah, it won't be that bad once it has a CN23. Sits at CAM4 for a few days while they fill the container for Las Canarias. Once that's full, it gets trucked down to La Huelva, then onto the boat for here. Boat takes two days. Then Canarian customs will sort it all, and send me a letter asking for the invoice, blah blab blah by email. Probably only takes a week to get the letter after the boat docks. Then send them the invoice and stuff by email, wait a week for them to email me the bill with tax and handling fees, pay that, then wait another week for them to deliver. Four weeks and I'll have them. LOL, next day delivery, you don't know how lucky you are! The exception is if the CN23 is missing. Then CAM4 return it to the sender, never gets here. Pencil pushing jobsworths in Madrid rarely ever miss a trick.

Looks like An Post collected mine yesterday evening and it left Portlaoise this morning. Probably sitting in Heathrow at the moment, so probably get to the big CAM4 customs firewall in Madrid this evening or tomorrow.

That is gorgeous!

Disassembled one last night, slowly levering the pieces apart with a small flat-head screwdriver. The tab on the back of the cab is crucial. Once that's loose, the rest is relatively straightforward. The cab is indeed one single piece of clear plastic, painted in places. Couldn't get the mirrors off and was afraid to apply too much pressure.

Somebody posted a similar question a year or two back. Wracking my brains trying to think who had a solution. Possibly @irishthump but don't hold me to that!

Looking at dismantling these two plastic Oxford DAF 2800's. They look like mainly plastic construction, possibly glued together, on a diecast chassis. Trying to figure out if the whole cab is one piece of clear plastic, painted where required, as the wipers appear moulded to both the body and to the windscreen. The lower grille with the headlights, and the roof, appear to be distinct pieces, glued in place. Has anybody tackled these before?

Two more boxes, TGHU-4377469 and NOWU-8349600, look like they're being used for longterm storage, in Guia de Isora. So, after a quick internet search, TGHU is TEX and NOWU is Norwood Shipping in Valencia!

...IF I'm lucky, you mean! Still waiting for my Bus Eireann MetroRiders!

Nice little CMA CGM reefer parked off the TF1 at the Chio roundabout just now.

That's motorboating that you're thinking of. We don't go in for any backdoor shenanigans, here.

Shipping notification early this morning. That was quick!

Roll on an early Tara Junction video this week!

I'd guess that they have commissioned the models from a manufacturer who have the tooling in that scale already, but your best bet is to contact Retro Models and ask. I'd also hazzard a guess that commissioning a bus requiring completely new tooling, ie a VDL in 1/76, would be cost prohibitive relative to the market. I've pre-ordered, as I'm sure they'll look savage when set back a little from other models.

That sound is just awesome!!!!! Fair play for finding a way, never doubted you guys. Was it taken from a video clip and cleaned up? Whatever it was, it's lovely to listen to.

Can't beat a nice orange 071! Speaking of... 085 getting the last few wagons ready before taking off into the sunset with the liner:

The Oxford / Atlas curtainsiders aren't bad either. Probably 1mm short each end, but passable nonetheless. The bottom of the Hornby 40' pops out just like the C-Rail 40', and they sit around what would otherwise be an awkward surface.

How close are the seacows to the NIR ballast hoppers? They look incredible!

Removing the bodies to make container trucks. The Ford Cargo is the easiest, perfect size, has a bed, just take the base off a C-Rail container and you're done. The Scanias and the Oxford TK need beds made for them. The two white EFE TK's were riveted together so out with the drill. Everything else was just held together with screws. I pick these trucks up from Hatton's whenever they have cheap used ones for £7 or so each.

LokPilots are only €12,50? I thought they were around €30? Meh, the lighting doesn't bother me at the moment. Not enough to add €10 to €30 to the price of a loco. Probably WILL bother me in the future, but we'll cross that bridge when we get there.