DJ Dangerous

How about your ONE customer in the Canary Islands? Part of Spain but not part of the EU for customs and taxes. Postage also difficult due to the geography, usually more expensive.

Kind of the same thing. I paid what I thought was insane money for a 111 last year, and they're now going for one and a half times that. What's a bargain to one may be a rip-off to another, and what's a price-gouge today may be a bargain tomorrow. Plus, that Bachmann steam set was savage value. No way you could say that wasn't a bargain.

Thanks! I'd never heard of them until a year or so back, and never seem to see their products for sale anywhere.

If you go back a year or two, 141's and 181's outstripped 071's for resale value, or at least were on par. The arrival of the 121's and the A's, combined with the likelihood of a new run of 141's / 181's has put paid to the resale prices to some extent. If IRM or Paddy Murphy were to say that they were working on an 071 / 111 project and hoping to have it on the shelves in two or three years time, I reckon that would eat into the resale value of the 071's to some extent. Not for all, obviously, but for many people, I believe that it would make a difference. If not, then maybe next year they'll literally be selling for €750 a pop.

Yup, I saw that they have a website.

Who are Cavalex models? They aren't mentioned here too often, something about having to abandon a loco project because Hornby re-tooled their own version, but that's it. I saw a video somewhere, and it appears to be too guys named Cav and Alex. Hatton's don't appear to stock their range.

Did he say that the coaches are 1:93,5 scale? Disappearing drivers are definitely a neat idea!

I found some of that piece of text online, but was hoping for a bit more.

Hi-Story HS315GR Toyota Starlet GT Turbo, the 1989 EP82 variant, pre-headlamp masks and with the full length light strip across the boot. These cars looked black in real life but had a very faint green flip / tint, which Hi-Story have managed to replicate.

So while nice, they don't fit that modular / multi-use mindset that most IRM products to date have.

Not so sure that they are bargains but sharing them here increases the odds of them going to somebody who is a genuine enthusiast, whatever the price. Seller might be flexible, somebody might be prepared to pay a big whammy to find that one missing loco, or IRM might drop some more photos of themselves measuring and scanning the real-life locos and put the kybosh on the current market prices.

Yeah, I found some wierd stuff while searching for Ashburton Grove!

What did you say about no more 071's this decade???

It sounds like a bit more than they cost when they were new?

Not quite sure if they're bargains, but they may be to some... Murphy Models 112 for €650: https://touch.adverts.ie/toy-cars-trains-boats-planes/murphy-models-nir-112-locomotive-northern-ireland-railways/29345275 Murphy Models 111 for €500: https://touch.adverts.ie/toy-cars-trains-boats-planes/murphy-models-unrun-nir-111-locomotive-northern-ireland-railways/29345364 Murphy Models 209 for €300: https://touch.adverts.ie/toy-cars-trains-boats-planes/murphy-models-unrun-nir-209-locomotive-northern-ireland-railways/29345438 Murphy Models 8208 for €300: https://touch.adverts.ie/toy-cars-trains-boats-planes/murphy-models-nir-8208-locomotive-enterprise-livery/29345478

OO Works U Class for €500, one bid already: https://www.ebay.es/itm/374510731737 Murphy Models 201 Class 208: https://www.ebay.es/itm/175611171975 Murphy Models silver and black 071 Class: https://www.ebay.es/itm/175611167537 IRM Ferts: https://www.ebay.es/itm/144942494936 And IRM Dicky Taras: https://www.ebay.es/itm/144942460253

An announcement tomorrow would lead to the dissolution of many relationships!

T minus 90 minutes... Maybe...

Is there anything that the Irish and British pocket platforms share?

I assume that he has double track, using one controller for each track, using points and crossovers for the loop?

Maybe post a photo of the underside of the points themselves. What points are they?

They can't post as they're laughing too hard at all of us numpties and our ramblings. 13 hours to go and will there be an announcement? GSR 800? J15? P47? 071? Two-tone green Dublin buses? A B&I ferry? New IRM factory in the Canary islands? Or another week of dashed hopes and dreams?

Yup. If you open the photo and zoom in, you can see it written on the cabside.

You could try removing one of the couplers from the NEM socket and gluing a very fine silver of plastic card either underneath the coupler to raise it, or above the coupler to lower it. When dry, pop it back in. Which one to raise or lower depends on use. Might make more sense to do one loco rather than a load of coaches, if that's all it's going to haul. If the loco's going to haul a variety of stock, and everything is fine aside from the Mk2D's, then modifying the Mk2D couplings makes more sense. I'm sure that @Noelhas written about this, or something similar, previously.