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I had to flip the server to another set of virtual machines, tho the 'gap' where DNS was updating would have been of the order of between 2 and 30 minutes...

Eventually

A few weeks ago we sent out an email advising on the production progress of the A Class, which as made great strides in recent months. After a long slog of research, design, tooling, testing, tooling correction and decoration creation and correction, we are now finally in the latter stages of production before delivery. Of course, at each stage of the process there are always little factors that can trip you up, often outside our control, and a couple have surfaced since we last updated you. Once such area was some of the tampo printing, which we were not fully happy with, particularly with their clarity and crispness. We have instructed the factory to go back and correct these issues which they are currently doing. Perhaps we're a bit too perfectionist at times, but we want these looking the very best and accurate that they can be. Secondly, in the wake of the blockage of the Suez Canal by the "Ever Given" container ship last month, there is now a shortage of shipping containers in China, which will cause delays in shipping out any goods from the Far East right now. We have been advised by our shipping partner that normality in this regard will take 6-8 weeks to be restored. So, what does this mean for the As? We had hoped to have these delivered to Dublin by late May/early June, but with these hiccups we now envisage delivery of late July. We are very sorry for this delay, but between demands for better quality, finish and shipping delays we hope you can understand the reason for this slight delay. We thank you for your patience and assure you that they will be worth this additional blip. With A23r already sold out and others not too far behind the demand for these beauties is very strong indeed. Order yours by clicking here! View the full article

and in one piece too

You can buy from the accurascale site at the moment and fulfillment will take place from Dublin...

Thanks Bob! just wait until we turn to Irish steam!

We announced our first steam locomotive project, the GWR 78xx Manor Class 4-6-0 tender locomotives, back in early February and showed an early test shot of the completed tooling. Since that announcement we have made further progress, and can now show off a fully tooled sample with detail parts and etchings in place. Please note that this is a first casting from our tooling. There will be further refinements to plastic, die cast and etched parts, as well as tweaks to the tooling based on this first sample. However, we think you will agree that it is shaping up quite nicely indeed. As you can see, much use has been made of diecasting to ensure we pack as much weight as possible into the locomotive to aid traction as well as smooth and reliable running. High fidelity etched and plastic components add that extra finesse to elevate this model to the next level, giving our Manor a quality and robust feel. Of course, the first sample is a process of evaluating and assessing the tooling, and looking at what improvements can be made to the design. We have also listened to feedback from modellers, and along with our own improvements will be implementing as many of these upgrades as possible. This will include alternative driving wheels with no webbed areas opposite the balance weights and an alternative "1952" style firebox washout plug arrangement. We're also aiming to make the slidebars thicker to more accurately represent the real thing, remove the "cutouts" from the front of the cylinders, add the valve gear splashplate on the fireman's side, reinstate the missing central pipe on the cab backhead, reduce the length of the elongated rivets on the front running plate and add the lip to the front and rear of the raised section of the running plate over the cylinders. Last week saw us achieve another milestone with our Manor project as we travelled to the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway and recorded the sound of the beautiful 7820 "Dinmore Manor" for our DCC sound fitted locomotives. This locomotive is owned by Dinmore Manor Ltd. who have her in excellent fettle! She put on a cracking run under load for us so we could capture her bark when worked in anger. Check out both of these smashing preservation organisations and the fantastic work they do to keep our railway heritage alive. We consider sound accuracy a vital component in capturing any model, and we have some nice innovations planned for our Manors, just like our diesel and electric locomotives that we look forward to sharing with you as we progress with the project. Overall the model is progressing well and on schedule. We will bring you decorated and sound fitted samples very soon, and we are on course to deliver the finished models in Q4 2021. Excited? We are! you can place your order for your Accurascale Manor with your local stockist, or direct with a £30 deposit by clicking here. View the full article

Not to mention a raft of stock, coaches, multiple units and more

Perhaps the key is 'at some stage' tho it's likely to be a brand new model, and therefore maybe a decade away.

We're just moving from one physical cloud platform, to another, upgraded one in the same location . (More a tech refresh for the cloud provider than anything else) All going to plan, nothing will change

The web server is moving to a new cloud platform, which will take place at Saturday 24th - 6 PM (GMT+1) and be expected to cause at least 6 hours downtime. (Possibly longer as DNS updates occur)

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Not a lot happens in a week Per Fran's last post, the assembly is flying, and almost complete, and we're on schedule to leave the factory in about 3-4 weeks time.

Lol sorry. RMweb runs the same software and version we do

This forum bolds unread posts too?

Unit 5 Oak Drive, Oak Road, Dublin, D12 RRA4, Ireland

It will if you 'share your location' otherwise just enter the townland or area and it will show that

Considering the A leaves the factory in 3ish weeks time, I doubt it

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Welcome to the April 2021 Accurascale newsletter. It's been another busy month for us here at Accurascale, with new models arriving, new launches and project updates! So, grab a cuppa, sit back, and check out a bumper month for latest news! REMEMBER: IF YOU DONT SEE NEWS ON A PROJECT YOU ARE INTERESTED IN BELOW IT MEANS THE PREVIOUS NEWS UPDATE IS THE LATEST UPDATE. YOU CAN SEE ALL OUR PROJECT UPDATES HERE. WE WILLSEND OUT NEWS ON THESE PROJECTS AS WE GET THEM, SO KEEP SUBSCRIBING FOR UPDATES! Right, let's get started! JSA Wagons Arrive In Stock March saw the arrival of our highly anticipated JSA covered and open steel wagons in stock. In a lengthy voyage from the far east they suffered from major delays due to the new customs arrangements put in place between their departure from the factory and arrival in Europe. In the end we had to land them at our Dublin warehouse. Most orders have now been dispatched to customers although a small percentage have been caught up in customs between Ireland and the UK despite having the correct paperwork. We are working with HMRC to get these orders moving again and we will ensure that no other orders going forward will be affected like this! However, all orders will reach their destination, they are just in a customs queue. We appreciate the patience from you if you have been affected by this unnecessary delay due to customs. In the meantime we have already sold out of some JSA packs, with a very limited amount of covered VTG and British Steel liveried wagons remaining. Don't miss out, order yours here. Accuraloads Range Has Arrived! Also arriving this month is our new range of wagon loads for our fledgling fleet roster of rolling stock! We have created a selection of loads for our PTA/JTA/JUA tippler wagons, our PFA coal containers, steel coils for our JSAs and coal for our HUO hopper wagons. Once again most orders have now been dispatched to customers although a small percentage have been caught up in customs between Ireland and the UK despite having the correct paperwork. We are working with HMRC to get these orders moving again and we will ensure that no other orders going forward will be affected like this! However, all orders will reach their destination, they are just in a customs queue. We appreciate the patience from you if you have been affected by this unnecessary delay due to customs. In the meantime, if you're looking for loads for your Accurascale wagons, browse our range here! KUA Delivery Update Our long awaited and highly anticipated KUA wagons are complete and on the way to us. However, they have been held up in the recent Suez blockage fiasco, which means a further unforeseen delay. Our shipping partner has now informed us that they will arrive with us here in late May. We apologise for this delay but it's completely out of our control. Once they arrive at our warehouse we will endeavour to turn them around for dispatch ASAP. They're looking especially tasty though. You can still order your pack here if you haven't already! Meltdown: New PFA Nuclear Packs Announced Our humble PFA went down a treat when they arrived in stock 12 months ago, with modellers loving the variety of loads we produced, with coal containers, gypsum containers and low level nuclear waste containers (LLNW) offered in our first run. It was the latter load which sparked an absolute sales frenzy on these wagons, with our low level nuclear waste container wagon runs selling out in rapid time. Even the second production run sold out in a matter of days. As a result we looked closer into the nuclear traffic carried by our PFAs, and have now developed FIVE new interesting containers to represent the wide ranging nuclear traffic these wagons have operated on for DRS for over 20 years, right up to current operation. As you can see the loads are fully tooled and ride on our excellent diecast PFA wagon, steeped in a wealth of detail. Artwork is complete and we await painted samples in the coming months. Delivery is slated for Q4 this year and will have a price of £74.95 per set of three wagons. Six packs are available, with five available direct or through our retailer network, and the Dragon pack available only via Accurascale. If you add three or more packs to your cart you will get 10% off your PFA order at the checkout! We also plan to introduce further coal container and low level nuclear waste container packs later this year too, so keep an eye out for them in the coming months. Pre-ordering is now open, so click here and place your pre-order today! MDO, MDV and Coil A Decorated Samples Arrive For Assessment March also saw the arrival of the first decorated samples of our MDO and MDV 21 ton mineral wagons and our Coil A steel carriers for assessment. Overall we are very happy with these samples, with just minor tweaking required. Production is now under way with delivery slated for Q3 2021. Read more here, or pre-order yours now by clicking here. Class 92 Tooling Upgrades Complete We last provided a Class 92 update in November, detailing the technology that had gone into the locomotive and why this will represent a true next level locomotive in OO/4mm. It included a demonstration of the DCC sound and working pantograph mechanisms as well as the excellent running characteristics. We also outlined a number of tooling refinements and changes we would be implementing in the model, such as brass horns, better glazing fitting, springs on the top of the bogie side frames and adjustments to the pan heads, which are now completed and in place on the latest pre-production model seen above. This body configuration also represents the lowered Channel Tunnel 'Polo Mints' for the two EWS liveried locomotives; 92001 which is part of our first release, and it's stablemate 92031, which we may do in the future. In our previous update we explained that a price increase from £159.99 to £179.99 for DC/DCC ready and from £249.99 to £269.99 for DCC sound fitted would be necessary for any new Class 92 order made after Friday, March 19th, 2021. We of course guaranteed to honour any active order made for the lower price point before this deadline. Orders have flooded in as a result, with modellers seeing what a special bargain this locomotive represents, with some of the more popular liveries now running low on capacity of available orders. However, since we have yet to receive decorated samples, we have decided to extend this deadline to allow any modellers sitting on the fence to make up their minds when seeing finished models. Our factory has advised us that we will receive decorated samples in late May. Therefore, we will extend the deadline to four weeks after we reveal decorated samples. Delivery for finished models is slated for late Q3/Early Q4 2021. So, if you want to avail of the bargain of the year, you now have some more time to play with. Order below, with a £30 deposit guaranteeing your early bird price. These running numbers and liveries are only available direct via Accurascale! View the full article

UK outline models have been categorised in eras or time ranges / operators for some time and, after a question on Rmweb, I wanted to post the IRM tagging system here for perhaps a little discussion / elaboration? ERA / Livery - Pioneering - Pre-Grouping — Great Southern Railway — Northern Railways — GNR — UTA NIR CIE — Silver — Grey & Yellow — Green — Black (& Tan) — Supertrain - Irish Rail - Iarnrod Eireann - Preservation - Permanent Way