DJ Dangerous

IXO Models TTR012 1978 DAF 2800 with the usual Salvat / Edicola trailer and Everest containers:

So what is so terrible about Murphy Models and ESU decoders? It's been mentioned a few times that they have terrible driving characteristics, poor lighting options etc. I think that members use the word "vanilla" to describe them. From what I have seen, and from @murphaph's cracking video, they don't seem terrible to me. Only problem with that video is that I bite my nails every time a loco gets so close to the edge. No better man to fix them when they fall off, I guess.

I'm sure I could "crack" one open for you! You were looking for a bigger challenge, I believe?

Do I see a crew in there, @murphaph, or are my eyes playing tricks on me?

The background is excellent for photos, really makes the stock stand out.

Will Táilte Tours be chartering flights, too?

Great, thanks!

Be sad to see SSM disappear. I've no positive feedback for them, yet, but have seen so many forum members heap so much praise on them, the decals and kits must be top notch. RIP.

That's class!

Kind of feeling a little deja vu here. I'm only starting off in the DCC world, so hold my hands up that I don't have much experience. Are Murphy Models and ESU really that terrible? I've tried one of my 121's with a stock Murphy Models decoder and I quite like the way it behaves. Again, to put this in context, I'm new to the whole thing, but it honestly didn't seem bad to me at all.

Don't be so pessimistic, lads. The summer wasn't a total washout. We had a few days of heavy rain in December, then it was more or less clear until last week. We had a few days light rain when the forest fires were at their worst, and nobody could have complained about that. Oh, wait, you mean up there, not down here!

Any chance of a link to the study? That would make for a great read.

You seem to have a slight anti-EVE agenda, and I'd like to see your claims on EVE's producing more emissions throughout their entire life cycle than ICE vehicles, supported with a few links. Not to opinions or Facebook, but to interviews with scientists, or the scientific research. From my own reading, EVE's on the whole produce less emissions than ICE's in the majority of cases, with some exceptions. There's a fairly easy to digest piece here: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51977625 It's verifiable as opposed to opinion-based. But to make it more graphic and easier to visualise, still, as I've seen how dirty mining for rare earth minerals can be, can anybody say that oil drilling and refining is clean? We'll have to accept a little polution along the way, there is no zero-pollution solution, but we also need to be responsible regarding misinformation like "spending six times more emissions to build an EV, hybrid waste of time". Drifting slightly off-topic, so going back to liquid hydrogen, I feel that our future transport fuel consumption will need to be mixed. As @murphaph says, different methods of transport will require different fuels. We have an electric van for work. We went for the cheaper battery with lower autonomy. It was advertised at 280km autonomy but sensible driving gets 300km per charge. That same technology, perfect for our van, may not work in something larger and heavier, so diversity and innovation will be required. Sails are being trialled on ocean-going vessels at the moment, and appear (trials are ongoing) to be reducing fuel consumption. We may see a mix in the future of ICE's, EVE's, HCE's, alternative fuels, hydrogen fuel cells, electric hybrids, and with a bit of luck, we'll see an expansion in the use of mass transit systems like buses and trains where possible. Heaven forbid that people would start walking and cycling for short trips of a km or two! That's a mindset that needs to be corrected, not a fuel issue. When I look down at my own belly, and I doubt that I'm alone, I wish I had more excuses to walk or cycle a bit. Can anybody else here (without a medical condition) say that they would benefit from less 2km cycles?

Great stuff. Be a lot of welding in one of those.

I'd assume that the engine mod is something like this, and that the enhanced 071 sound, as with the Corolla, will provoke an increase in blood pressure to ones nether regions.

Only the tiniest percentage of stuff gets posted with no CN23 and goes back. Everything else makes it, eventually!

Small parcel from @murphaph delivered this morning. Aside from chocolates and the usual bribery, it included this. Damn!!! Outstanding!!! You can see the love that was put in here.

Wait... You have kept a broken washing machine for 44 years? Good stuff, what a Whammy. That Cosmic Thing will be Bouncing Off The Satelites around this Wild Planet for years...

What a wonderful gesture from IRM / AS! Are there many units still available to pre-order?

How dare you two? With a few new bits and bobs, the 071's will outlast all of us old farts, and the kids like @Westcorkrailway will be worrying that the 071's will outlast them.

Received an email from Accurascale this morning. Doesn't apply to me because of the post, but applies to all of you lucky sods up in Ireland and BrExitland!

I have no Manors at all, so I thought it prudent to procure one... Cookham Manor, in what I understand to be her 1980's livery. Lovely loco. Detail is out of this world. Three little bags of bits in the box, AND just as important, instructions on what they are and where they go. Drives me crazy receiving a loco with bits in the box and no instructions. Won't get to run her for a while, but she looks fabulous! Once Accurascale start using Royal Mail again, I'll have to invest in some decoders. If IRM's GSR 800 and J15 look like this, then I'm sold!

And a short video of the same:

IXO Models TR050 1970 DAF 2600 and an Altaya Models No. 42 trailer with CMA-CGM containers, both sourced from eBay. As far as I can see, the IXO and Altaya trailers and containers are identical tooling-wise, everything is interchangable. The only difference, as with Oxford vs. Atlas, is that Altaya use triangular-head screws. Will add video later.

And with Real-X 1/72 cars, as we can see here, the lads hassling innocent boy racers!