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F5 F5 F5 F5......

Yeah a few members kindly ordered them. Some may still be in the post though.

Down to single digits on fert pack E now.

I hope there are some still available when the dickies go live. I will take a pack at that price, despite them being too early for me livery wise. Nice one.

A fine structure indeed. It actually looks like you'd be able to add external wall insulation relatively cheaply and easily yourself, unless it's built right up to the boundary and the neighbour would object to the overhang?

This one is really getting out of hand! https://www.ebay.ie/itm/185665003427

I'm in Germany and I will be forwarding a rake to a GB resident myself, assuming I can get them NI is a better option for anyone with NI contacts though, shipping will work out a good deal less.

Quick, somebody set up a reverse parcel motel!

A beer keg and fertiliser shipment from Ireland to Britain.....yeah I'm pretty sure that should set some 1990's coded alarm bells ringing in some system somewhere

Can't help with the rolling stock Dave but having looked at your website I am really looking forward to your CIE layout

Delightful scenes at the mill!

Are these the decorated samples? They look lovely.

It definitely came together David!

Indeed. Class work. Hard to tell it's N gauge.

I think almost anything from the mid 50's is commercially viable nowadays as we have the RTR locomotives out there in the wild and the odds of a C Class are not insignificant (a locomotive that was withdrawn before IE came into existence). I entered the hobby wanting to do only 90's IE stuff. Then along came those delightful silver and green A's, so I bought A1, A30, A42 and A46 and then as I believed that the stock will eventually become available I bought B121 and B135. I strongly suspect I am not the only one who is now looking at earlier stuff too. It will take some time but I am personally fairly confident that this era at least will in time be well catered to by IRM. I do not believe, for example, that 3 packs of open plank wagons or 2 axle covered wagons wouldn't sell very well at this stage. They even have an advantage over bogie stock for those tight on space. This "moving back in time" phenomenon happened with GB outline modellers too. I suspect that we will definitely see bogie coaching stock from the mid 50's as this also had a long life into CIE and in some cases IR days, like the A's.

I decided to take a chance on the convertibility of these to 21mm and have pre-ordered one of each, except the B&T one which is too late for my chosen era (the "green and grey era"). If, for whatever reason they are a mare to convert, I suspect I will have no trouble off-loading these as by all accounts the run is not huge and I expect them to sell like hot cakes to be honest.

No need to dream Dave, the 141 is being rerun next year by PM and IRM are constantly releasing new freight stock so bide your time. Aside and not directed at your comment Dave: Without being in any way disrespectful to Hattons who have announced some very fine models here (with ample consultation of a very knowledgeable forum member), we should bear in mind that it was two Irish companies that finally delivered a suite of high quality RTR stock to us. If we had waited for a GB manufacturer to cater to the Irish market we'd still be waiting and Hattons would not have produced these coaches because there would have been no market to cater to. So while I welcome some "bits n pieces" from new to the scene RTR manufacturers, I think our core support belongs with PM and IRM. It's better for the future of our hobby if we patiently wait for these companies to release the models we want. This is not a dig at anyone or any firm, just a statement of what I believe to be fact. Have a nice weekend folks

That's a good tip Eoin. I'll remember that one.

I don't get ya? I presume he doesn't want to scratch build all his rolling stock. That's not what you mean, is it?

2mm brass rod cut into lengths would probably work too? Doesn't have to be bang on lenngth wise and no pin points required.

And scrubbing it does nothing?

There is no one size fits all paint stripper IMO. It very much depends on the plastic and the paint. IPA works well on Murphy Models, for example: It requires a decent soaking (overnight is best) then a bit of scrubbing with the old toothbrush and then another soaking for a couple of hours. I find two soakings will be enough to get back to bare plastic. That's 99% IPA. It also works in a similar manner for Lima coaches, as does brake fluid (I haven't tried brake fluid on MM models as IPA worked for me)

That's good news. I would generally never be ordering less that two packs to avail of the discounted shipping to the EU when spending over a €100 so I guess I was unlikely to be able to redeem my reward points without this change.

He attaches one when sending to Germany anyway.