skinner75

Not bad at all!

It is indeed pricey - but, as others have said, better a pricey model which needs detail improvement - than none at all!

True! Steam wouldn't be my thing - I'm still delighted with the good news on the 121 front from MM!

Really annoys me, Garfield. Nothing I do - including following good advice given here - works. It's actually putting me off posting a lot of stuff.

two things to try:

1 - Sell iphone/ipad & get an Android phone/tablet

or

2 - Turn whatever you want to take a photo of upside down!

There's a mention of it in this months Model Rail. Pricey at £255/£265 though!

I wouldn't mind - the only mk3s I have are the two red executive ones

Hi BosKo,

I'll take that off your hands for €100. I'm in Athlone, so if you want to send me a total - I was unsure if the €100 included postage, or that was extra, I can pay using Paypal.

cheers,

Andy

All I can say is I'll be buying a couple of each livery. If they are as good as the 141s, then they'll fly off the shelves.

I've been waiting a long time for MM to do the 121, and wasn't happy when there was talk of them not being done. They'll be sweet whether they run single, in pairs, or mixed with a 141! Hopefully we'll get 124 & 134 in the IE livery, as they ran together so often towards the end

just ordered a copy there - looking forward to it!

 

Skinner75, didn't know these DVDs existed ,thanks for the link.

No problem - not from the usual suspects (Markle or Video125), so I was surprised when I found them too. The cab ride (vol3) is excellent

'Off the beeten track' series of three dvds by VideoLines is excellent - covering the 1998 beet campaign. First dvd covers the empties, second covers the loaded trains, and the third dvd is a cab ride from Waterford to Wellington Bridge. I've been rewatching them over the last few days.

Available from http://railwayvideo.co.uk/irish-railways.html

I think I have only seen them on the right hand side of the locos and they may be on the other side of the lead 121. I might be wrong. Will try to look at some photos, and I have no idea what they were for

I think they were to allow cooling of the brake lines, but don't quote me on that!

which brings up the next question , where do we get spare disks etc ?

I checked in Woodies - €4.70 for a Dremel brass wire wheel brush. Went on Ebay, and got 50 steel wire brushes, suitable for Dremel, for €10 from China.

Hi

 

Just a note on a previous post about the Lidl grinding wheel for the hand held unit;-

 

Though the Lidl ones may be soft, but one wants the wheel to disintegrate (hopefully at a slow rate), this is how the wheel works- as chips break off it leaves a continual sharp surface on the wheel to do its job

 

Eoin

After 5 mins using the brass wire brush, there were about half a dozen wires left on it! Most having hit me in the hand or face as they parted company from the wheel

Wear safety goggles when using the wire brush, as wires have a tendency to part company from the wheel & can go in any direction. I've been using wire brushes in my dremel to clean up some tricky to reach parts of an engine block, and wires wear flying off it in all directions!

 

On ships the red 'Port' lights are always on the left side as a good wine is never 'left' behind

 

The way I remember it is Port & Left have the same amount of letters!

Check out this vid from the Netherlands - similar to the German locos, with the wheels painted red & the body in black.

Do you reckon they've got enough motive power on this one? ;-)

And no matter which way I hold the iPhone when taking photos, they always turn out upside down. Any thoughts on that? Should I stand my head when taking them?

Try hitting it with a hammer and then getting a proper phone!

Plenty of G scale Deutz for sale here, for those that want to try something in the garden!

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/ZENNERSHOP-GARTENBAHNEN/Dieselloks-Spur-G-/_i.html?_fsub=6609059018

Yup, my bad, it's dzsullivan@eircom.net

Copped that after I got a bounced delivery message. I resent to the above - just checking did you receive it (Andy Skinner)

It could be your monitor settings... it looks fairly close to me.

could be, but even if the settings have too much blue/red/green, I am still going to notice a difference between one and the other, as it is the difference in shade that I am noticing, not how close the monitors representation of the actual colours is.

Best bet would be one of those paint sample scanners though

That looks way off to me - the colour in the middle of the strip three to the left looks a lot closer to me (allowing for the fact I'm looking at it on a screen). That, or the colour (S 0585-Y40R) at the end of the strip you have the sample on looks closer too

I'll go for one Weshty - hopefully you get the 8 needed for the rerun

I love the tyre marks on the concrete - very cool freight handling yard that

But why accept basic expensive rtr models when the standards today are so much higher? I want a rake of fertiliser wagons and have done since before mir ceased trading but i won t buy the alternatives as they don t meet the standard that i expect for that kinda money. Had the opportunity to buy a rake of them a few years ago and i wasn t impressed at all. For 80 yoyos a model i expect a certain standard.

If people keep supporting these models at this level of detailing etc then thats what they ll get into the future.

Well then - go build your own to your own high standards if that's the way you feel.

Perhaps other peoples standards aren't as high as your own - doesn't mean they should listen to you and boycott whoever, just so they will produce a higher standard rtr model for you to buy

Yes, the whole "Thomas" thing was huge. Excellent for the hobby. I know of many current railway enthusiasts in general, both within and outside modelling worlds, who cut their teeth (perhaps literally) on Thomas, Annie, Clarabel and the Fat Controller....

Nice bit of modeling in the early series of Thomas, but it is all cgi now unfortunately