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I was even good enough to put a big custom sticker on the box saying "Adult Toys", just to make sure the postie didn't get the wrong idea.

The vast majority or Irish orders will land tomorrow, and I've spoken to most customers regarding delivery. However, given the volume of parcels/tracking numbers, and the fact that we're volunteers, I've not had time to email each person with a tracking number. If anyone has an urgent need for a tracking number, please email me on richard@irishrailwaymodels.com and I'll send it first thing. (Hospital appointments/away for work, that sort of thing) R.

David, fire me over any info you have, I can help with fonts, decals or masks for spray painting. Email address is richard@irishrailwaymodels.com Richard

Nonsense, but if any man can make it work!!!

I don't think convection currents are to blame. In 8 years of spraying, even with all windows closed, I've never seen this happen, nor heard of it happening from anyone in the respray community. If you're using a 0.5mm nozzle with the needle pulled back to open out the nozzle, the "blunderbuss" technique, maybe then. Are you sure it isn't glue fumes inside the stock that's caused it? Anyway, the fix is to get a jobby of brake fluid and using a small 000 brush, coat the glazing only. After twenty minutes you should have clear glazing. Make sure it doesn't touch other paintwork though. Humbrol make a clear gloss varnish that will restore glazing to clear, designed for aircraft canopies on models that have gone cloudy. HTH Richie

Thanks wrenn! If you get out the magnifying glass, you'll find that the tampo'd makers plates also have the exact number of the wagon depicted, and not just a generic number. We should have done a few more with the faded old numbers, I think it works really well. Be nice to do a pack D with new numbers... Richie

The flyover gig a few years ago in dublin with the A380 was a sales pitch . Aircraft leasing is big business, going back to Guinness Peat Aviation. Issue is that when a large company buys a couple of billion of boeing/airbus through here, it screws up our GNP, even if we get very little from it, and results that we have to pay more to the EU, as it looks like we're making a lot of coin on the books.

Alas no. The Architectural Archive in Merrion Square normally houses all the buildings of note, drawings and photos for Ireland, and for some bizarre reason, they lie, inaccessible, in Heuston. R

Noel, Eoin "super boffin" of DART fame makes some excellent bogie sideframes for the C-class that have real "meat" to them, and I'd recommend getting some, if he has any to spare. The GM sideframes just look totally wrong, and they're easy the remove. When you think of it, the only real detail on the C class is below the skirt, battery boxes, bogies etc. so if you can up the spec there, you'll have a tasty model.* *aside from the fact that the front looks like it got a belt of a shovel, and the windows are at the wrong height and size.

6 pm ? Reads Store Street Friday 5th? Wally be up for it surely if he's not in Albufeira, and a few other heads?

Saturday 6th May, 2:30, just off the Busaras Luas Stop? Happy to have the craic with all and sundry, chat about methods,paint, how to get it wrong (i'll bring examples of screw ups) and whatever else comes to mind.

Reads in Store Street is the spiritual home of IRM, grub is great, stout even better. Happy to organise something if ye fancy. R.

You've no idea how happy I am to see me little ladies grace a layout! *I am claiming them as mine, despite the fact that without the other three lads, twouldn't have happened at all!

That's tidy, but i especially appreciate the lamp irons, no mean feat, but every little detail helps. Whip off one of them monster couplers though, for the tail end charlie R.

If I could say what I want to say about a certain courier, I'd end up in the High Court. We were starting to get really worried when one of us had to don a pink high vis....! Nope, all gone. I believe Garfield bought 24" chrome rims for the van in a spot on the Warrenpoint Road....

I've forwarded on his CV of work to our HR department, and as of this moment we will keep it on file, in a filing cabinet. Kindest regards, R.

Great to see Noel. Worthwhile spending a bit on better masking tape ? Thoughts? R

Dave, You might politely suggest to Silverfox that there are two shades of orange, RAL 2011 and tan as perfected by Phoenix Precision Paint, rather than the in between shade that they seem to use for both liveries. I'm trying to be as sensitive as possible here. R.

This is the donor wagon. No idea what the dimensions are. The heating/luggage vans were 30' long, so thats 120mm long in 00.

I do Tony. I'll dig it out of the archives in the morning for you. R.

What goes around..

Rich, Lot to be said for taking yer time and doing things right...company motto and all that! Pics please

Possible solution. Add a passing loop centrally and have the outer less complex road for through traffic?

Top of the drawer stuff as always Eoin, your photos are always a joy. Edit: When you mention epoxy and the roof, I'm reminded of Tony Wright being asked recently by members of IRM team why he doesn't do resin kits of steam loco's. To paraphrase, "You can't solder resin" was his response R.

“Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.”