DJ Dangerous

Do IRM have any notions of looking at 21mm-friendly chassis for the likes of Ballasts etc over the coming years?

I see that these Hoppers are now on offer, and a smashing offer it is, 17% plus 10%, so I guess about 25% off overall! Will the first Accurascale O Gauge loco be something that could have hauled these hoppers between the 1950's and the 1980's? Extract from today's Accurascale email:

Just change the couplings and haul them with a preserved 071.

On blank decoders only? Or also MM decoders?

Will IRM have any more Expressway buses? Not for me, don't worry I don't need any more, mine are in the post! Just that Hatton's have them back in stock the past week or two.

Sorry. The post just seemed very disparaging of ESU techs, the files themselves, the performance etc, so I mistook it.

Are all of the MM decoders terrible?

Started with very low opening bids a few days ago. Now all up to insanely high prices, and there are 12 hours for the red mist to set in and drive the prices even higher. Maybe a mod can merge this with the eBay Watch thread?

It's a testament to the quality of IRM's A Class, that @murphaph was able to get her running again. She fell from a good metre and a half, if not more, and to be there and see all of the bits was just heart-wrenching. Looked like a write-off, yet she's running again, and looks outstanding with that weathering job!

The windows seem warped on this one. I just assumed that the last owner had left it on a window sill in the sun or something.

He has been in touch with forum members in private as recently as February 2023.

The honourable thing for David to do, assuming that he and Mark parted ways, would be to publish a list here on the forum, of exactly what he has accepted financially, and not managed to deliver on. No names, just numbers. Client no. 1 paid a deposit of X on X date for X model with a balance of X due on delivery etc. It would be a giant step towards redeeming his reputation, and a huge step towards the transparency required in case he ever wanted to get into the model railway world again. Many people will feel that there has been a (or have been several) breach(es) of trust. Despite the running qualities mentioned in the Tara Junction thread, the models do look very very good. If he doesn't have the balls to take a step like this, he is painting himself as a con-artist. I hope he does the right thing.

I'll put my hands up and say that I'd be the first to moan about the price of these and the low run quantities... At the same time, I imagine that putting €20k or €30k or whatever into a run that may take a year to see the light of day is also a daunting prospect, so fair balls to Derek Farrelly et al. When it comes to quality, and this is not to knock the BritBus models, but the Jotus and Resin Specialist models have quite a bit more fidelity. I picked up a second hand Resin Specialist RS-76658 model, KD221, no. 059 of 150, and the previous owner did something wierd with the windows and lost a mirror, but still, here are a few photos of it alongside it's BritBus counterparts. A photo speaks a thousand words. Again, this is not a dig at the IRM / Britbus models, it's just a visual comparison.

Savage!

Have to thank @murphaph again, this time for advising me that Derek Farrelly (sorry, can't remember his username here on the forum) has some Atlanteans due this summer! I've missed out on these for years and was delighted to be able to order a few from Derek. Thanks again, @murphaph !

No Boludas, OPDRs, NISAs or TESUs. What is the world coming to?

Is that a Tiny City police van? Lovely!

I never realised that David and Mark had taken on a steam loco project as well. This was back in my "lurker" days, years before I actually joined the forum. What else had they tackled? 2600's, De Deitrich Enterprise coaches, and 461? Was there anything else? It's funny looking back, now, and I say this with a bit of embarrassment, but I vaguely remember reading a thread similar to this on, where IRM announced the birth of their company. They announced a couple of wagons, maybe with CAD images, and Muggins here was suspicious as to whether it was genuine or a scam. The fact that they weren't asking for deposits should have tipped me off as to how genuine they were. Sorry to hijack the thread, just a flood of memories coming back. Your man, Killucan, came across as pretty hostile back then, when IRM launched, and the irony wasn't lost on me.

Yes, see @Darius43 posted the link to the original thread by @BosKonay

So you're saying that the cost of flights to Ireland to break in are actually worth it?

I remember there being some talk of controversy alright. At least a few members have them. TTC is lucky that I'm too far away or I'd be scaling the walls and breaking in to "borrow" his...

What ever happened to those D&M guys, or whatever they were called, who used to make the 2600 models years ago?

Shame, as they are lovely looking little locos.

The Tiny City stuff is very nice!

Are the Heljan 165's similar to the Tuam 165? https://www.hattons.co.uk/612643/heljan_9771_ruston_165_0_6_0_diesel_shunter_45_in_ncb_dark_green/stockdetail https://www.hattons.co.uk/612642/heljan_9770_ruston_165_0_6_0_diesel_shunter_in_industrial_yellow/stockdetail