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Yep, I thought Southern when I saw the curved dark green along the windows too. Not sure what model you could use to hammer a 29000 into?

1,000!?! Can you fit that many in Chez Glenderg!?!

MIR kits as I said on Saturday! Or Leinster models if you want that promotion to super detective!

These are the babies being used in the UK on the Drax Biomass flow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOJuvkzijLA As far as I know the biomass needs to be kept dry. While I'd love to see nice big hoppers on dedicated trains I'm guessing it'll be a few containers with a rag thrown over it.

Ally Pally used to be my local show (literally, could walk to it from Muswell Hill), good to hear it's still going strong and is enjoyable as ever. Must go back one year for old times sake. A much better venue than Warley in my opinion!

Pics now on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10202570495016454&set=pcb.314793772007321&type=1&theater

They'd just have not eaten their greens in OO Land... Fantastic concept for a great layout and great modelling!

The sad thing is that a 'one size fits all' product is not going to satisfy everybody. Some would rather something crude for buttons, others (like myself admittedly) would rather something true to prototype as much as possible and would be prepared to pay the extra for it. However, can the market sustain two products and a halving of the target audience? It's an interesting conundrum.

It must be on your hard drive so

About the best looking Silver Fox A I've seen Kieran, you really polished that up. Top drawer!

well done George and best of luck.

Great pics man

I'd also spray the area white and then mask off the line and go orange over it. Always go from light to dark colours...

Murphys don't seem to want to do a model which has been released RTR by another provider. Silver Fox did a tarted up BR craven unit in Irish liveries. One to the standards of Murphy stock would be fantastic. Then again he'd probably have to do a C class to go with it...

A good scale model of the AECs would be superb. A lot of possibilities with hauled stock as well as motorised, liveries, possible GNR version too.... Pretty essential rolling stock for the period.

Well after much resisiting I succumbed to picking one of these locos up. Sound, shipped to Ireland and taxes paid it worked out slightly less than a 201. It was too good a deal to turn down and a chance to see how MTH stacks up. Looking forward to giving her a run and see how she sounds

I love it as much as the next man Shem, but not a hope she'd be done RTR.

and a turfburner!

People are still buying them though. I'd kill for a top quality A Class and they're just about my favourite Irish loco along with the 071s but there was no way I was touching the Silverfox one. I'm sure a good one will eventually come.

Not to mention potential price. If someone is costing it by the hour the prices can soon rise to a price few would be prepared to pay.

She's nice and subtle, not overcooked and over done. Good job Nelson!

The second picture is an older version, pre NEM standards. They've been making these for a long time. Nice find btw, wish my local charity shops carried such interesting treasures. Must alert the mother to keep an eye out for interesting stuff in the one she volunteers in...

It is, but when you see Bachmann and Hornby trying not to duplicate each other [although it does happen on occasion] for a much larger British market and then Paddy Murphy avoiding subjects like the A Class because Silver Fox already do one you'd wonder how a small market like Irish outline RTR can sustain two separate entities doing the same wagon. After all, when a second company does the same subject as the first the market is cut in half, and if the first company has flooded the market then there is little hope of the second company selling out any time soon. The best way we all benefit is if the second company does something not already available. Of course this is also assuming that the product of the first company is up to standard. I'd rather someone would do the humble open wagon, the box vans and stuff like twenty foot flats, fertiliser wagons, Tara Mines wagons etc rather than another bubble. But then that's just me.

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