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Yeah that's the plan for the ones I "go to town" on Rich. I will not bother weathering the top surfaces of most of them because they will have containers on 'em. The keg ones will need a bit of top surface weathering too as you can see between the cages.

Well I'll have to have a little tank about that....

Thanks Mark. I wasn't aware of that thread. I was wondering more about the background of the model however . I should have been more specific. I was wondering is it from a kit or scratch built etc.

Just a couple of battered containers. The Kien Hung one must surely be nearly end of life with all those patches....

Lovely thing. What's the background to it?

Dave any close ups of that Donelli machine or whatever it is behind the Sulzer?

You're a model making machine Darius! Fair play to you.

Fascinating topic. Maybe it would help to ask on a specialist UK site, if there's a suspicion it is built from plans available in a magazine etc?

When I send parcels to Ireland from Germany using the normal post they usually take 1 week or slightly less to arrive. I sent a parcel to a forum member on Tuesday and it got there yesterday (Friday). That's the fastest I've ever had a parcel arrive from here it has to be said. That's only a day more than I'd expect it to take within Germany!

Nope, Ringaskiddy is never likely to be rail connected either. It's the wrong side of Cork city for that. Madness building ports that can't even be theoretically rail served at some point in the future really.

When you see the extraordinary amount he got for the last (used) one he listed you can understand the starting price..... https://www.ebay.ie/itm/155076573039

This is spectacularly good. So much realism. The rusty corrugated roof is just spot on.

That's some clocking!

Be careful with t cut and cotton buds however. I've seen it have disastrous effects on certain RTR finishes because the numbering is sometimes very hard wearing compared to the underlying paint, which then starts to come off/turn really shiny while the numbering sometimes even stays put. If the 121s use the same numbering technique as the 071s I can say how I have removed them....using a cocktail stick and nothing else. They can be scraped off by using the sharp point. Nevertheless a slight outline trace remains but it's completely flat IIRC. I was respraying so did not care about it but the numbers are quite tough. I suspect it would have been very difficult to remove them with tcut to be honest. At around 9 mins you can see t cut disaster here:

If anyone is looking for a full rake from the original series, I bought two full rakes back then and would be willing to part with one of them so I can grab a rake of these new ones instead. Feel free to send me a PM if interested.

Thank you all for your kind words.

Excellent. That's what you want, nice bit of caked on cement. Is it real cement?

Easily my favourite wagons to weather so far. Hardly a different combination of reds and browns couldn't be found on the prototype during the 90s. They were well and truly unloved by the end. Yes the wheels are still masked as I have to wait until everything is really dry before applying a top coat of matt varnish. As a matter of course I am regauging each wagon as it gets weathered. Strange glare is the light reflecting off the back of my phone I think the jury is still out on as to whether or not the 48 tonners were ever loaded like this. The restriction bars had definitely been removed as there is photographic evidence of briquettes being loaded in those centre bins. I assume it would have happened with fertiliser too and anyway rule 1 lol. The obligatory before and after

If anyone wants the RPSI 3 pack I still have access to one for a much more reasonable amount

When was the meat factory on the Grand Canal in Dublin closed? That would have probably been rail served as well one would imagine. If I'm not mistaken it was built on the former DSER carriage works site.

Cheers Rich, yeah it seems like when repairing the sheeting they painted them before screwing them to the door frames, possibly because they knew that they'd corrode prematurely if they didn't do it like that. At least that is what it looks like to me in pics I've seen. I've also painted some of the cross members and end panels in bauxite red as there are pics of these repairs as well. I just clear coated the whole wagon in preparation for the weathering as it's coloured plastic not a painted finish and the weathering just rubs off unless I put a clear coat down first. The handy thing is, you only need to make up one bauxite red mix and then just apply slightly thicker and thinner coats to the different doors. The brown plastic slightly showing through from below then results in different shades of bauxite red by default. Kind of pre-shading without any effort. This then represents repairs that have been carried out at different stages in the past. The brighter the red, the more recent the repair. It doesn't show up all that well in the pic as the effect is very subtle. Anyway, that's the fiddly work done on these three. The rest is just washes and fairly indiscriminate grime with the airbrush.

It looks like some of these wagons carried warning flashes for OHLE but this was rare, right? Was it just the 48 tonner ones or did the non-upgraded ones get them as well the odd time? Anyone got any more pics of the ends?

You could just spray the green ones white Cathal. They are easy to remove. The load limiting bars in the centre bays need a little bit more force to remove but unless you are a clumsy oaf it's trivial to remove the loads. I am very much looking forward to these. I think they are still my favourite IRM wagons (so far!). Funnily enough I started weathering my original ones yesterday:

Ace. I love the faint traces of rust on the sleepers where the chairs would have been.

In reality any gloss finish viewed from far enough away appears matt. As we view our stock from a scale 200 metres or more away it is more realistic when it has a matt or at least satin finish IMO.