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Fabulous effort. We'll done to all involved.

Looks like these are selling out fast. The keg liners too.

I wonder did it ever make it over to Inchicore for wheel turning or do these slow shunters not need such treatment?

I have stripped and resprayed this piece a number of times as I try to familiarise myself with the Vallejo polyurethane primer. This stuff gets extremely mixed reviews but on this material if you follow the Vallejo instructions (thin the primer about 20% thinner and 5% flow improver and spray a mist coat first and then build it up) then it works well IMO. As the loco is to be heavily weathered I am trying a post shading effect here. The paint did not age uniformly. UV damage was highest on the top for obvious reasons but also areas along panel lines tended to be darker and areas under projections like the louvres and turbo cover were also darker relative to the more exposed panels. As mentioned briefly above my plan is to further experiment with a laser cut stencil of the NIR logo. I could probably get a good enough result from transfers but I want to challenge myself a bit.

The owner is mates with the local DoE lad. She sails through with flying colours every year.

I have parked the NIR 111s for the moment as I want to try laser cutting a stencil and airbrushing the logo on the side. The laser cutter is on the way. In the meantime a bit of messing about weathering some Oxford diecasts. I imagine these old things were operated by the local builders' providers...

Ray if you're interested in swapping orange for black roof mk2's feel free to message me. I have at least 3 mk2d's with the black roof, a restaurant and two standards I think. These are too late for my chosen era (1995). I would be happy to swap for equivalent orange roofed mk2's in IE livery if you have any interest.

I love the mixing of units in the warning panel. It's like Irish roads until recently, distances in km and speed limits in mph.

I hope this doesn't happen again to be honest. As a one off it's a nice "treat" for us at Halloween but it was certainly a "trick" for IRM when this happened. It would reduce the overall viability of the enterprise should it become a regular occurrence but the attention to detail at IRM Towers is unlikely to allow that to happen. You are spot on though Spud, loads of other well respected manufacturers would have just sold this batch at full RRP and given their customers some guff about manufacturing tolerances etc. Aren't we lucky that our models are made by men of a different calibre.

I think judging by the sounds of the demand, that a limit of 1 rake per customer would suffice and most likely still see the dickies sell out and if they don't sell out now at that limit they will sell out during future flash sales. Can Shopify maybe generate single use discount codes, specific to the dickies that could be emailed to existing customers in advance of Black Friday? There will be a lot of unhappy campers if 10 people buy all the rakes up in the first 60 seconds. I've already promised my son a few. I hope that wasn't too hasty!

Am I the only one that thinks these look nicer than the correct ones? Ore am I mad?

I notice the EGV is not there. Was there any mention of it from PM?

I think that time Tara Mines were in a disagreement with Dublin Port over fees and they wanted to prove a point. They used those Amficon 20' containers with tarps.

So I have to select paypal and click the yellow complete order button first? Edit: No I see it now thanks!

I'd like to order 3 of the packs and pay in instalments via paypal but I don't see the option to do this at the checkout. Am I missing something? I haven't paid by instalments previously so I'm not familiar with the flow.

I think someone on here once said that Tara mines ore went out through Foynes at the very beginning before the tippler in Dublin port was ready?

Thanks a lot Mark. Safe to say then that probably no baby GM'S were still in STIR livery by 1995 then? If so I will leave that one. It's not like I have a shortage of tippex ones.

I suspect these things will sell like hot cakes judging by the reaction here. Absolutely the right choice out of all the railcars I would say. Bring new people into the hobby with a current vehicle and then work backwards hopefully.

I am glad I have all the ones applicable to my chosen era or I'd be going mad that I hadn't sent a representative lol. Do you know what he was charging for these rarities?

But IRM is manufacturing single occurrence vehicles already (NIR dining car is totally oddball and requires unique tooling). Even IR coach 4112 has unique features (roof, doors, handles) that Stephen said will be modelled accurately) so I would not rule anything out anymore. Stephen also says that the rebuilt Dutch vans will also "probably" be produced (he was asked and answered on RMWeb). The ballast plough vans were not unique but not exactly prolific either.

I think Aughinish Alumina processes imported Bauxite. I suspect the zinc ore mentioned here is for export (to be mined at Palllasgreen I believe). I wonder would Boliden look at shipping their ore out through Foynes as well if it's cheaper than Dublin. They did ship it through Foynes for a while I believe.

Jesus wept. I'll have to send the young lad out to work!

Just Irish stuff or AS as well Stephen?

I did check the price of flights but couldn't justify it

Thanks a lot Nick. Much appreciated.