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  1. murphaph
    Thanks for going to such lengths Ben. I have a gut feeling the silver window frames disappeared with the change to IE livery. I haven't found any pictures with silver window frames + IE logos. It would be nice to find even one picture disproving this gut feeling.
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    We're deffo overdue a bit of news alright. Hattons email alert a few weeks back said they expected the IR ones in t the end of September and the IE ones end of this month. Who knows, maybe the factory is under lockdown again. Numbers going up worldwide more or less
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    @Arran do you have any plans to produce the 40' Bells again any time soon?
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    Thanks very much. A bit late for me so. I'll have to avoid those high cubes unless someone can confirm the loading gauge allowed 40' HCs on the 42' flats.
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    Thanks a lot for checking Ben! There are photos from 1999 (I think kindly linked above in this very thread) of the mk2As and they had already been painted black by then as well. http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/ie/car/IE/pix.html That's a mk2b or c in your pic though, right? (I'm no expert but from what I know only from the b series on did they get those classic wraparound doors, the mk2 and mk2as still having "normal" doors)
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    When were the grey ones with the blue stripe repainted to the later livery (corporate is it?)? Pictures I have seen suggest it was done in the late 80's already. Did any of the earlier ones survive into the 90s? I kind of prefer the earlier livery as it is kind of reminiscent of BR blue & grey which I have a soft spot for.
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    Sorry to revive this old but fascinating discussion but it's better to keep all this information together. Does anyone know if and when the mk2as with the silver window frames lost those silver frames under black paint? The nice Bachmann mk2a models show silver window frames but with IE decals. Did such a combination ever actually exist in reality?
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    Yeah that's what I was thinking but I'd like to confirm. What year did pocket wagons first enter service?
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    Lol. I don't Dave! Speak of the devil... (A lovely c-rail delivery came today) I think I need to work on my printer settings.
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    Getting better with each iteration. The trick seems to be to add all the required fold lines before cutting out the end panels. The instructions only advise making the main folds before cutting. Also I feel the internal bracing is a tiny bit too narrow so I'm cutting those out on the waste side of the line and adding a bit of "uhu padding" when assembling, otherwise the side walls seem to sit too recessed and not flush enough with the end walls.
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    Indeed Robert, for me it's c-rail all the way for the laden flats but these are ok from a distance and will someday (as I improve) end up in Limerick yard but most of these early attempts will be going the way of a certain 7 year old beside me lol.
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    The Yang Ming in the picture is the first I've constructed using 2mm solid card rather than corrugated cardboard. It's more difficult to cut but probably fairly unsurprisingly retains it's shape better as it doesn't compress at the ends/sides where a corrugation is missing.
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    Thanks for the encouragement folks. Ultimately I will need to be able to construct a reasonable likeness of actual station structures so I thought the scalescenes route would make sense. I'll try their free buildings kits out next and then move on to something more complex. I'm just using generous amounts of pritt stick type glue to stick paper to card and normal uhu (actually the not drip version, which is slightly more jelly like) to stick the card edges/corners together.
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    Cheers Rob. It's certainly good practice for the future. I'll experiment a bit with different card thicknesses and see how I can improve upon what I've done so far. I'm trying to look at each one and see how I could have made it better. One thing I realise I really need is an assortment of square blocks of steel or aluminium or something to help hold parts at right angles during glue curing. I'm away next week but I've found offcuts on eBay for small money and I'll order those for when I'm back at home.
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    So I've posted a bit about my forays into the electronic side of the hobby but in the past couple of days I've picked up the scalpel and attacked my first ever scalescenes kit. A few containers. Baby steps.
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    Thx for clarifying. Quite understandable, given how much more difficult it is to regauge steam locos compared to diesel.
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    A model of that someday and I'd be all over it.
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    Yes please do
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    Yeah I know Jonathan but having stuff from decades apart on my layout at the same time really bugs me. Maybe I have some form of OCD. By the way my copy of RttW arrived and I've started reading it. Just my sort of book. Great work.
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    Any other fuel trains use one I wonder??
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    Couple of questions: Which tanktainers where to be seen on Irish rail in the mid 90s? Any details most welcome. Were high cubes carried on the 42' flats or were they too high?
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    @Mayner would you be considering including an easy path to 21mm in the design?
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    Yeah but I plan on building a fairly large layout requiring a lot of stock as is, now multiply that by 2 or 3 and I'd be looking at divorce! I want to be able to run a real day's timetabled operations some day. That requires a lot of duplicate stock.
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    I'd really love an excuse to buy one of these for my planned 90s layout. I know I can't run one, prototypically anyway but parked in a siding rotting away perhaps? When was the last one scrapped?
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    I guess there's a lot more RTR stock (Cravens) that a preserved loco can haul on a layout right now. Perhaps as the market grows there will be stock from the late steam, early diesel age to haul.
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