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Just bumping this. If it's a glitch should it be corrected before payment is due?

Bullet bit. One of each set ordered. I'm sure I'll figure out a way to widen them Are EU deliveries not free anymore or is that just a glitch? The order process says €7.50 delivery charges are due.

So ca. 1995 we would have seen these wagons pass through Kildare on the way to Galway in block trains?

Did they pass through Kildare on the way or were they routed via Mullingar?

Lovely looking wagons. I doubt many people expected a team up with Heljan! Facinating stuff. As the chassis will need to be cut to regauge, does anyone have a picture of the underside of a BR one? It would help me assess how easy or difficult that task is likely to be.

They'd certainly be on my order list!

Man I wish I had that Knight Industries Two Thousand "de-pixelator" right about now!

Only if you have a deck. It's clearly not an overarching priority right now but they'll get there.

Nice one Jason. They look the business the way you've applied them.

Ah here, that's just unreal.

I have had success scraping the numbers off MM 071s with the sharp tip of a cocktail stick.

A side by side before and after of the buffer mod would be great if you haven't done them all yet!

Fabulous end result!

Interesting that IRM is listing the MM stuff on the projects page. Thanks for that. https://irishrailwaymodels.com/en-de/pages/projects

They look fabulous with the Hornby buffers. Great work!

I've never seen a 20' with a pair of double doors like that.

Absolutely! These are the things most people never photographed.

As my father often used to say, they are an acquired taste.

Very informattive stuff! Did these Cortaulds wagons get down south much?

Looking good! Can't wait to see the progress.

When was the last time a H van ran with the mail train?

Welcome Paul. Nothing embarrassing about that jumper. It's a great memory to have. I'm sure many of us wish we had more pictures of our childhood adventures. I reckon you'll pick up 007 in model form at some stage. They do come up as lads decide they are focusing on a particular era and let their other stuff go.

What a beauty!

I'm pretty sure @Garfield said that all the "ballast chassis" based models were complete with the release of the magnesite wagons.

You cannot currently buy 21mm wheelsets for either IRM or MM locos as far as I know, certainly not from the manufacturers as you can with Accurascale locos. You would need to either extend the axles with bushes or replace them entirely. The IRM bogies are not a plug and play replacement for the Cravens. At least some modification is required. The original bogies can of course be cut in half and a spacer installed to widen them. The IRM stock that is 21mm ready is trivial to regauge. Just use a wheel puller to ease the wheels out on the axles and get a back to back gauge to push them back in to. I believe at least some, maybe all of the SSM kits can be made in 21mm. The Provincial Wagons RTR models that I have are not really regaugable as they are based on GB models. I don't know if the kits are but @leslie10646 can answer that definitively for sure