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Thats the question I guess. From a numbers basis we could do something like the 121 or C class for maybe 399-450 Pounds / 450-500€

Would there be a market for a short run of irish 7mm? (like a 1000 unit limited run of something as much for the shelf as the layout?)

A small packaging issue but we hope we can catch up again and get them here asap.

It may be your ISP is using IPs that are austrian is some database. Just choose germany from the list and it should cop on. Or indeed bookmark https://www.accurascale.de/en

Welcome Paul!

Ultimately they are literally hand made and hand painted by our amazing team in China!

No it’s to cover a loophole that we don’t use at all. It doesn’t apply as we already use the two legal and approved methods already for parcels under 150 and above

They're in stock now, so between now and after payday / month end is grand

The photo above shows the roof off and pcb in place. pop out the screws and you’ve full access to the interior without having to fiddle with the underframe.

Thanks lads. It’s been quite the journey as we wanted to not simply make a unit but make a template for units that lead the space in realism, accuracy and fun to play Now the hard work has been invested, producing future units including Irish outline will be much simpler, quicker and cost effective.

Good lord! Sorry to hear that Noel!!

A proper update will be along shortly, but they are getting their final look over before moving to in transit, so should be 6-7 weeks away from landing on layouts!

Well well well.....

The Class 89 is a class of 1 and has sold better than the A class...

Everyone has their own wishlist and perception of ‘what will definitely sell a million units’ However we’ve hard data going nearly a decade now including retailing Murphy Models and we know for example that on an average run of anything irish between a third and a half of the run doesn’t get sold in Ireland at all The accurascale support and merge has also seen hundreds of ‘new’ UK customers venturing into Irish outline simply by realizing they can run them alongside their OO stock and it’s something ‘different’ The current situation is as much a result of some staggeringly slowed and delayed projects buffering up to on time projects and pushing on planned projects all at once. The unfortunate result is a gap in supply for a while followed by a glut. I’m happy to see lots of suggestions here that we have either tooled or CAD complete or research underway so rather than (slightly rudely) suggesting we should ‘listen to our customers’ perhaps remember we exist because we are customers who didn’t feel listened to We love the feedback and suggestions and really value them and the support but you can also trust we are doing the best we can with the resources and timelines we have to work with. As i said it’s a golden age of irish modeling. Onwards and upwards!

My point was there was no bundle discount before the price change. The effective price to the customer moved 20% and you also got loyalty points and a range of other goodies. The prices before were, frankly and openly, unrealistic and entire subsidised by the accurascale side of the business. Basically our UK outline customers were paying part of the cost of every IRM thing sold, and we've been weaning the pricing away from that model so that IRM can justify standing on its own feet. The prices didn't go up, they now just actually reflect the cost of the things. We do have a lot of backlog and stuff to deliver, and absolutely pita, projects like the ICR and Park Royals which have been a rock around our ankles but we do have an exciting roadmap beyond that, more cross over with UK outline to help keep prices moderate (coaches, wagons, and more) and more new tool powered stuff too. As I said, it's not a time for negativity, but rather onwards and upwards with renewed vigour and purpose

Yes they are €130 for three, which if you buy any combo of 5 packs, is €110, which is €36 a wagon, and you (could have) split over a year, interest free, at just €3 a month a wagon. Comparing with, say, an accurascale HTO/HTV which is €118 for three, or €39 each, before discounts, you're actually still getting a hifi 'niche' outline model for less than the going rate of 'mass market' UK outline. When launched, and heavily subsidised, they were €30 per wagon. (also not the same wagon as now are on sale) You can now buy one for €36 per wagon, I make that 20% overall and still south of 'main range' UK prices.

Accurascale British outline Mark 2 coaches are £79.99 each.~ IRM Irish / NIR Mark 2 coaches are £74.99 All of the bulleid ranges are the same price and have been since that entire range launched? You can buy 3 Palvans for £109, thats just £36 a wagon, less than the going rate for much higher volume run wagons from accurascale, or rapido, or Bachmann; three Magnesites were £121.95, etc. The 42' project averaged £50 per wagon too. Not seeing the 'massive' price hikes to be fair, again, unless you're going back a decade when we could do a twin pack of HUO wagons for 69.95 - but then we just launched PCA Bulk Cement carriers = triple packs at £ 69.98 which is € 82.95 or just € 27 odd per wagon, BEFORE you can get 10% off for two or more, or 15% off for three or more, and that applies to all the Irish wagon packs too. Here you can see the value to the customer of scale and reruns at volume, which is Fran's point. Keep runs small, demand low, keeps prices high and the possibility of new tooling low. Not sure where a 45% price increase might have been imagined, but unless you're comparing with packs of wagons that were many years back and massively subsidised by their UK cousins (as above the MK2s still are) then we've not 'put up' any prices, certainly not by half! Prices are where they are and if you examine any UK outline wagon or loco, you can see, refreshingly that Irish outline prices are on par, if not still a bit less, despite the market being a small percentage of the scale and volume that UK outline can achieve, this is entirely down to the efficiency at scale of accurascale having IRM under it's wing. If IRM was de-merged, you'd have supply like, with the greatest of love and respect, Murphy models, where a 141 will cost you £200 and you might get a new model every three years. Am sure no one would like to go backwards. Launching less, and selling smaller runs too, means only one thing. MUCH higher prices than you see now. In real terms, the market is strong, the overall business is doing well, and you get a lot of bang for your buck, if anything there is too much choice at the moment, so the old days of 'buy everything' aren't feasible any more. When would anyone have thought you could pick up a huge range of bullied wagons, cement bubbles, Hunslets with matching Mark 2s, ICR units, the GSR 800! Park Royals, and more to come to the highest standards and levels of technology and detail, for prices still well south of anything close across Europe? Finally we're the same people running the same business when we delivered a cement bubble over a decade ago. We have more help, more options and opportunities and more resources, but that never changes the DNA of a business. 'Duplication of lines' isn't something that has to be worried about in Irish outline, even if Paddy is still promising Mark 3's and so are we The glass is always half full, and rumours of the demise of the hobby have circulated since Moses was a lad, so it's a time to not bemoan, but be thankful.

You know what they say about Assumption.

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I’ve moved the entire site to a new server.

Seems quite solid for me now so keen to hear feedback from those who were seeing slowdown.

So we’re now migrated. Let me know!

Thanks for that. I’ve been running extensive testing myself too and it does indeed appear that the underlying physical server hosting us is having issues. I’m currently making arrangements to shift the resources up a gear and move the instance to a more modern and capable server. I’ll update posts when we need to stop the forum for a few hours to facilitate.

I’ve activated external monitoring too and it’s also seeing nothing. Super odd