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Sure there's a kit for them already! http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/showthread.php/3295-Southern-Pride-Models-offering-Mark-III-International-Conversion-Kits

Termini is something else, huge! A bitch to take good pics in though. Was there myself in April, hope you enjoyed!

Fair enough, your money and kit and it's up to you what you want to do. I'd still get the book though. Great guide through the process. Best of luck!

okay, I would recommend maybe starting with something a little more basic, like SSM brake van to get practicing with soldering. Even before that practice soldering with some scrap pieces of brass, even the frets from the Maedb kit. Also, I would recommend getting this book it's old but very good http://www.amazon.com/Etched-Loco-Construction-Iain-Rice/dp/090686786X I'm using it as I find my feet with building etched kits. I know you're eager to build an 800 kit but I would practice on something a bit more simple first.

Can I ask, have you ever built an etched brass kit before?

I find that there is no substitute for pen and a bit of paper. You might not be happy with something unless you design it yourself.

Athearn don't offer the SW1500s with sound at the moment. EBay would be the best bet for a 2nd hand donor.

Kato and Atlas do the best quality stuff in N gauge American outline. Their stuff is superb and reasonably priced.

Wowsers Eoin, that's impressive! Well done!

Possibly the Athearn Genesis MP15AC. Same sounds as a 121 too (except horn of course). Have one somewhere...

It's not as simple as that. I think people mainly buy by things like different liveries etc for variety. I can't see someone buying 60 A Classes somehow if you're drawing down to operational numbers and as you say many times 121s operated in pairs so two numbers in each livery rather than one A in each livery. The only previous version of the 121 was the MIR kit whereas I'd bet a fair few silver fox kits have been sold in recent years, further restricting sales potential. At the end of the day Paddy Murphy will have done his homework and that has led him to announcing his plans to do a 121 and as it stands it's the last model left to do from his last official announcement a number of years ago. If he is to do another newly tooled model it will be the 121.

What do you base that statement on?

Good luck to you and the one doing all the work!

I think this might be the picture. <img src="http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=17885"/> The very one! Well played sir!

Sensational pic. I saw a picture of one of the NIR 111s at La Grange in blue with no yellow end somewhere on the internet years ago. Cant for the life of me find it now!

haha quite possibly. the Richmond House probably had too many Pats Fans in it. Maybe he was a Shels supporter.

Plenty of pubs in Inchicore though, Richmond House (McDowells), the Black Lion.... or was that too blue collar for them?

Brake Fluid has worked for me on factory paint but it does need scrubbing with an old toothbrush to shift.

If it's done by who I think did it he goes from scratch. Prolific is the word!

No idea Noel, I'm too much of a peasant to travel by such means!

I'd gladly swap them for Enterprise stock out of Heuston!

So, what's the craic with this then? Mark IVs to Belfast?

Jesus I have one of those Grove cranes around somewhere, must dig it out! There's an Irish diecast group on Facebook too, might be worth popping the ads on there if allowed?