DJ Dangerous

Yeah, real pain. Seriously, how the Hell are you supposed to clean the bits of the sprues off the bars without breaking the bars? To avoid gluing my hands to anything, I just used a cocktail stick to put a tiny drop of glue into each of the four holes for one bar, dropped that into place, then repeated for the next one. It was less dangerous than gluing the protrusions on the bars themselves, but did lead to glue splodges on a few doors. Just checking, and the blue Ferrymasters boxes definitely came with blue locking bars. Should these ideally be painted a metal colour?

The locking bars were painful. Six cuts per bar so 24 cuts per container. The sprues are stronger than the bars, so one of mine ended up in three pieces, roughly glued back together before fitting, and many of the others still have bits of the sprues attached. I was afraid to try clean them up as the bars themselves are so weak compared to the sprues. They'll be grand running around on 47' Flats but not great for yard photos or anything. I did all of the locking bars as per the photos from @MOGUL and @popeye but was thinking afterwards that I should have done one or two differently as if the containers had different doors or something. I have loads more of these locking bars to fit, and the blue Ferrymasters boxes (I think) seem to come with blue locking bars... Is that right or should they also be bare metal colour?

What the Hell was the driver of 080 looking for halfway through the video?

The link: https://www.hattons.co.uk/stocklist/siteresults?searchfield=HM7000

The 22000's were a ballsy move, but are great value when you think of the price of a loco and coaches. People are always talking about an Irish trainset. Well, this is more or less what a trainset would cost and entail. I hope to order a few more of these further down the line but don't want to overcommit just yet, after just clearing the NIR coach pack balance and having some IR coaches with payment pending. Plus, it's possible that we'll see Paddy's new run of 141's and 181's this year, plus we may have an IRM steamer, and we'd bloody better have 47' Flats and two-tone green Dublin Buses, all draining the budgets that little bit more. Possible that others are in the same boat, unwilling to pre-order until they get their stuff together.

Yeah, get @murphaph To weather, gouge and rust them beyond recognition.

Jusr received some Ferrymasters and Samskips today. Been in the post for a few months. Sadly, these will be my last Dapol containers. I'd rather go without, than have any more funky looking fuzzy mis-aligned print...

Future runs of... 071's? GSR800's? Arrows 'n' Sparrows?

Hornby Class 31 for €146,58 instead of €247,70 at Hatton's: https://www.hattons.co.uk/513724/hornby_r3880_class_31_1_31147_floreat_salopia_in_civil_engineers_dutch_grey_and_yellow/stockdetail

How many were there in total, what were their running numbers, and which were BCK's and BSK's? Sorry you posted now, huh?

Two things. 1. Yay, Fran's alive. 2. I just have to say that it's awesome how you give the years for each variant. This sort of info is often very difficult to obtain for the uninitiated, and you make people's lives so easy!

According to Wikipedia, nine Irish GSV's have survived in some way, shape or form. The IRM / Accurascale modular approach of today has evoled a lot compared to three years ago. I'd speculate with a hat-eating wager that a BR Mk1 BCK and BSK launch, accompanied with an Irish cousin variant or two, is a lot more likely on the cards over the coming months / years. Of the surviving Irish ones, several went back to the UK and now sit on narrow gauge British bogies, so the livery and configuration possibilities for both British and Irish variants are relatively vast. Ignoring the British variants, I'm sure that they saw a few different liveries under Irish use. CIE use, weedspray use, RPSI use, Downpatrick use etc. And now we have the RPSI pink variant. I mean, what sort of monster would you need to be to not buy at least two or three and bask in the pinkness on your layout?

You'd think that they'd have painted the whole train pink to celibrate it's retirement, not just the GSV.

So everything that An Post have been mucking up, consistently, for several years, is because Ireland is the EU's guinea pig for a software rollout? Two years of IRM orders and local post office packages being sent to me with no CN23's (An Post muppets insisting that customs declarations are not required when they clearly are) and subsequently returned, along with An Post charging VAT on items clearly declared electronically and physically as gifts, plus charging VAT on a random selection of parcels sent to Ireland from the UK (no logic, some are charged and some aren't), and it's not down to incompetence and operational failure, it's all a trial software issue... Now I get it it.

3173 and 3185...

Ah, Silk Cuts, now that takes me back. Must be 20 years ago.

The colour is actually very nice. My only bugbear is what they were smoking when they put the pinstriping so high up the body. Although, "so high" up the body is probably a clue...

Just like Raheney and Raheny!

Booooooooo!!!

I like the fluorescent pink. Very progressive gay pride feel to it. Are they going to repaint all of the Cravens pink or just the GSV?

Just now, off the TF-1 at the Chio roundabout, a Seatrade reefer. Don't remember ever seeing one of these before. Only 8'6" tall, so looks tiny compared to the usual Boluda and OPDR 20' dry boxes.

How's Fran doing? On the mend or have you had him put to sleep?

Accurascale 92???

i have an even better idea. Next time he's down here, I throw the three of them off the balcony so he has to scavenge the fragments, first. Giving him all of the pieces just makes it too easy. He needs to work at the next one.

Enough horseplay, you bunch of cowboys. Savage space, @Adrian!