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murphaph

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  1. That's a B4 bogie Brendan has regauged there, right?
  2. 21 is a great number for IRM: 6 more triple pack re-runs down the line to look forward too
  3. That's great news. Looking forward to these and future reruns. They're a wagon you can probably comfortably do regular reruns of as they don't break the bank and they were so numerous we can always justify a few more. I've intentionally just bought 1 pack of each of the G&G era ones so I can buy reruns with new numbers as they appear over the coming years.
  4. Any update on this Fran? I have the same problem with my corportate livery ones. All the "standard" coaches seem to have EM gauge bogies on them. Only the "oddball" ones like the EGV and DVT have the proper 21mm ones.
  5. It looks like some GB EM gauge bogies have found their way onto the coach on the left. Definitely no room to push the wheels out to 21mm on those.
  6. Having originally passed on these I found myself in the home place this week and it's only 5 minutes to Mark's in Greenogue. I couldn't resist the bumblebee ones after all the rave reviews. I'll open them when I get home. I was already leaning towards picking them up after seeing them in Warley.
  7. Great news. Some crossed wires in Facebook it seems.
  8. I'd really like an answer to that too as on Facebook it's being rumoured that Rails won't deduct UK Vat on international orders!
  9. Nothing says true love like an NIR Mk2b.
  10. "Those coaches were only resting on my layout"
  11. I also understood that the PCB has been redesigned to provide more prototypical lighting such as one shunting lights, in which case it would be bizarre if the headlights and white marker lights weren't also independently controllable.
  12. In fairness the recent secondhand prices have been sub €200 in most cases. The price highs of 2021/2 seem to have passed for these locos for whatever reason. Perhaps folks actually anticipated these new ones coming in cheaper, thus suppressing the secondhand prices and these prices may actually increase again now that there are in fact no low cost new ones coming onto the market. Who knows. That's not a prediction from me as I certainly don't know lol.
  13. Don't forget the satellite dish cables hanging down the front and in through the window vents.
  14. They are a good 30 quid a loco more expensive than I had "psychologically budgeted" for. I had a figure of ca. €200 in my head, given the A was more of a loco for €190, but factoring in the (presumably?) much smaller run size with these ones. Ah well, I still followed through on all 5 (tippex) I had on pre-order and pulled the trigger just now. I have the 9 tippex ones from the first run but I told myself with another 5 I can justify running most of them as double headers as they mostly were on the Cork main line by the mid 90's. Money is easy to spend when you want to spend it. I'd be more than a little suprised if these don't sell well. The baby GMs have long been the most desired re-run loco (or anything?) on this site haven't they?
  15. I had this issue too last year I believe. You have to select partially it in the step before you go to the checkout IIRC. I asked this same question a few months back if you want to search for it.
  16. My opinion is slightly nuanced. I can't really "forgive" the EGV livery mistake because there is no additional cost in getting the stripes and whatnot to end where they are supposed to end, but I can't really see Paddy making the mistake on purpose and not recitifying it on purpose. I'd be surprised if some element of that wasn't out of his control. I was never in the market for that livery so it doesn't actually affect me. Having said that, plastic moulding differences do have a real cost in additional tooling requirements and there I am happy to accept compromises like vents, lamp irons or sockets or whatever in the wrong place on a given loco in that particular livery because there were too many variations on the prototypes to cost-effectively accurately (down to the last detail) represent them all. You kind of have to pick one or two and just go with that. My mk2d's are on their way to me today according to the post office website. Can't wait
  17. Cheers @dave182 looks like they are indeed 21mm friendly. That's good to know.
  18. Cheers guys. A little too late for me so.
  19. When would those Dong Fangs have been in service?
  20. Relieved to see the IR ones as delivered. The colour looks fine. The early pre-production ones looked very red indeed. Mine are on the way to me as we speak. Got the IRM mail earlier. The Galway livery EGV error is inexplicable really. It's not a minor detail and it was flagged before they went to production it seems. Unless there was some oddball livery on the prototype that we are all unaware of? Quick question for those already in possession of theirs....did the bogies end up 21mm friendly in the end? There was some speculation they might and they look different to the original design. Rotating axlebearings?
  21. I'm glad those coaches are outside my chosen era.
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