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So I got the airbrush out for the first time and weathered the track. No where near a perfect result and it started a load of extra work to tidy up ballast but it was a learning experience. 

53 minutes ago, ttc0169 said:

My wish list.....no pressure lads........

• 1- Asahi two axle coal & oil flat wagons and twenty foot coal and oil containers,
• 2- Ammonia bogie and barrier wagons 
• 3-Bogie bulk cement wagons
• 4- Bogie 62' timber wagons
• 5- Two axle timber wagons
• 6-Two axle MX type Guinness wagons

 

Right with you there. 

I'm a bit freight heavy so I'll say an Arrow, Mk3 and Mk3 Push Pull also. 

My money is on oil wagons. 

Also hoping for pallet cements, 4w flats, Ammonia etc. etc. etc. 

Are there any plans for the release of a Dutch livery or more triple grey liveries in the future? 

I bought some Kadees to see how they look and perform. Fairly happy with them. Only issue is I need to remove the Coupling hooks from my locos which isn't ideal as I like to have them fully detailed.

The Kadees I am using at 18s. Are these too close? Can anyone advise?

On 6/1/2021 at 2:57 PM, WRENNEIRE said:

Arrived this morning Sean, cheers  

I got mine yesterday. Thanks Dave. 

Swap agreed. 

Selling this model of Irish Rail 071 class no. 082 in silver and black railfreight livery.

The model suits 2007 to around 2015 and would be right at home pulling IRM weedspray, spoil, ballast, Tara and cement wagons as well as any IÉ era coaching stock.

The model has been used although the box and seperately fitted detail are virtually perfect. I am selling as the model does not suit my era and I would like to replace it with one that does.

If anyone wants to swap Murphy 078 or an IR baby GM for this model please PM me. Otherwise I will be posting it on ebay in the coming days.

I have also detailed a wagon from each rake. This involved adding tail lamps from Glenderg models, instanter couplings from Accurascale and removing the function Coupling. I also added the anti theft barrier to one of the container wagons. 

I'll get some Modelu figures eventually but until then... 

129 is on the branch service tonight. 

129 and 133 are in the yard while 220 arrives with kegs from Dublin and 143 waits to leave with empty kegs. 

1 hour ago, Noel said:

These Black'n'Tan livery MM 121s are just gorgeous. B125 got a very light dusting in the sheep dip. Just enough to get the plastic shine off it.

Can we have a petition to make this the next livery of RPSI 134 after it gets the Flying Snail?

37 minutes ago, irishthump said:

Yeah I fitted mine with no 20’s and they run fine. 
I plan to fit them with draft box Kadees in the near future.

Could you go smaller? I put the magnetic coupling I usually have on the baby GMs and they're slightly too long. Kadee 18s are what fits the babies. 

Has anyone put Kadees on the 121s yet? 

The first of many keg specials this week. 

129 and 133 getting fuel. 

Some detail added to 30177.

Ballast in the yard. 

The ballast rake arrived today hauled by 143. 

They passed 133 and 129 sitting in the headshunt. 

On the Belfast liner. 

8 minutes ago, iarnrod said:

126 was the only loco that I have so far found photographic evidence of with the four marker lights on each end. Any link to a photo of 130 in this configuration?

As for the dayglo, it could in theory be possible to approach Railtec and get them to do a dayglo panel transfer for the 121's.

I'd say SSM do them currently. But I'd say it's better to paint them rather than trying to lay transfers around lights. 

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4 minutes ago, iarnrod said:

The lights on the IR locos is even more strange when you consider that the correct tooling exists, and they all should have the same marker light configuration as 129, but without the incorrect bulb issue obviously.

My frustration exactly. 

5 minutes ago, iarnrod said:

Paddy also alluded to the amount of work that had gone into these locos at the same exhibition,  and I'm sure that he would be as disappointed as anyone if there are issues with the final product.

I still take my hat off to the guy for releasing these models, which amount to the most highly detailed and high specification Irish loco released so far.

I will echo that!

Just now, murphaph said:

Ah yes of course some rewiring would be required but I had already assumed that, sorry. I realise not everyone is comfortable with a soldering iron.

I can solder alright but removing the body on such detailed locos and knowing what to do with the board is another story. I'd give it to a professional. 

Despite my moaning about quality issues... 

129 and 133 on an early morning fertiliser train. 

12 minutes ago, murphaph said:

Oh that's a shame that all the 129s have two red lights instead of two white lights.

I expect a manufacturer to be forced through economics to sometimes release a livery that doesn't exactly match the hardware in a given time period because the cost of modelling every modification of a loco would be prohibitively high. So I take the "slightly off" hardware to get the livery. But this lighting arrangement never seems to have existed on any 121 from what I understand so appears to be an error either in the spec or on the factory floor.

Are there lenses in front of the LEDs or are they those colours naturally?

I'm wondering can they be fixed using spare parts to get two whites and one red.

Yes I'd imagine both the wrong lights on 129 and the lights on the IR locos were to avoid extra costs. 

I can't see away around the lights on 129. Even if I replaced the lenses and swapped the red LED for a white one, the decoder would still switch the white light on with the other red one. Maybe it's possible but I wouldn't dare attempt it myself as I have no experience. 

For the IRs, you could put a square surround on the lights over the round ones and that would sort it. However, 130 was the only one of the three that had the 4 lights on each end 

23 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

Anybody else on the forum have a 129 with the wrong red / white lights?

I wonder if the flickering is a QC issue from the factory, or results from some of the drop-kicking that DHL have been doing with the deliveries.

I'd say the flickering is a factory issue. You'd imagine the detail on the loco would be the first to get damaged from poor handling. 

18 minutes ago, Wexford70 said:

I also need spare vacuum hoses. 

The first 121 I bought was missing a vacuum pipe on the nose end. But I couldn't see any sign of it broken off nor could I find it in the box.