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We’ve used SLA printing for test samples in the past but the cost is about £3000 for a non working locomotive.

Hi Sean am embarrassment of riches is coming this year

58% of the run is sold already...

An Post resume international shipments end of this month...

Following the speedy sell-out success of our Railink Dublin Bus double decker buses, we have gone back to our friends at Britbus and commissioned a new run of Dublin Bus double deckers. This time we have gone for a more mainstream model in the wonderfully attractive and iconic ‘City Swift’ livery of the 1990s on the Leyland Olympian chassis, based on demands for more mainstream liveries to populate layouts. As we have seen with our first double decker model, there is a healthy demand for Irish themed vehicles for your layouts or collections. We have also seen this when we recently began stocking Irish themed and easily converted into Irish outline Oxford diecast vehicles in 1:76 scale to aid modellers sourcing vehicles following Brexit and related difficulties in buying from the UK. This will lead us to offering more Irish themed commissions in the future, as well as our own tooling on new model vehicles in the long term. Our second commission from Britbus is another OO/1:76 scale model of the popular Olympian buses that began operating in Dublin in 1990. They were retired from fleet service in 2012 but continued in tours services for several more years and can still be seen today in Ireland, the UK and beyond in service with private operators. The Olympian chassis first debuted for Dublin bus as a Leyland product in 1990, featuring a Cummins L10 engine and replaced the then aging Leyland Atlantean buses produced at CIE (later Van Hool McArdle) Spa Road Works in Inchicore. A total of 175 of the Leyland RH class Olympian buses would be delivered to Dublin bus over the next three years, with the last delivery in 1993 being among the very last Leyland badged buses ever produced before the Volvo take over. When delivered, the vast majority of these buses carried the then fleet standard livery of two-tone green with orange stripe, with others arriving in Wedding Bus livery or soon gaining attractive liveries for advertisements such as the EU and household name products. In 1993 the City Swift concept was born, which sought to introduce single deck buses and operate higher frequency services to key routes in the city, beginning with route 39. The concept proved highly successful, and soon double deck buses were required to increase capacity and flexibility. This included new deliveries of Olympian double deckers from 1995 and later repaints of existing buses including the RH class in the mid/late 1990s. We have depicted two of these RH Class Leyland buses repainted into this attractive livery in late 1990s early 2000s condition. City Swift livery has never previously been available on the Leyland model of this tooling and the previous release of the later Volvo bus in this livery has been long sold out and now attracts a high premium among collectors. They also feature distinct features like black painted bumpers, green moquette seats (as per the DART and Bombardier buses) and both styles of destination blind, depending on model. RH70 is a 1991 registered Leyland Olympian which spent its career at Conyngham Road Depot operating a variety of routes out of the garage before being withdrawn and sold in 2005. On our model it is operating the now defunct 51B service to the City Centre via Clondalkin Village. It features the later style of illuminous numbering and lettering on the front destination blind. RH126 was the first of the 1992 batch delivered to Dublin Bus for Alexanders in Mallusk, County Antrim. Our model depicts Summerhill Depot based RH126 repainted into City Swift operating on the also now defunct 13A to Merrion Square via Coultry, featuring the memorable blue background for the 13A number on the front scroll with white number and text. RH126 was later repainted with grey bumpers but our model depicts its earlier guise with black bumpers. Both models had also lost their Leyland front badges before gaining City Swift branding which is depicted on our models too. Development of these models began as the Railink buses were delivered, with production now complete and the models in stock. Price is €59.99 each and both models are strictly limited to just 252 pieces each. They are available to purchase now via our website, so don’t miss out. Order now and look out for more die cast releases later this year. Click the following link to order, and see the rest of the die cast range currently on offer at the correct scale for your model layout https://irishrailwaymodels.com/collections/vehicles (We would like to thank Britbus, Derek Farrelly and Adrian Richards for their assistance in developing these models) View the full article

It depends a lot on the model and size of run but tooling is roughly 20-35% of the total. 3d printing can’t come close to the cost at scale.

Exactly that DJ, a well paid, highly experienced assembly technician (10 years experience of assembly model railway items) might earn $150-200 a month. During that month, they can assembly probably thousands of models / parts. Every time I hear cries of 'why can't we make it here' compare that (highly trained and experienced) persons cost to the Irish or UK minimum wage, then multiply it by the 600 or so assembly technicians IRM / Accurascale use alone....

We got a most interesting reaction when we launched our Coil A steel coil wagons back in January: "The what?" "They're a new one on me!" "What is that?" "Never 'eard of them mate!" We knew the coil A was a bit of a gamble of a less well known prototype, but we were a bit worried when the initial reaction was one of unfamiliarity. The poor coil A! However, this initial reaction soon turned to genuine interest as many modellers were intrigued by its interesting look and form. And then the 17 modellers who always dreamed of a high standard modernisation plan steel coil carrying wagon rejoiced at our news! Well, there is now further good news as we reveal the first factory decorated sample of these interesting unsung heroes which helped build Britain for over 30 years. In the late 1950s/early 1960s, British Railways was out of step with the increase in production of rolled strip steel and as a result, neither the correct type or necessary quantity of wagons were available to British Railways to be able to meet the demands placed upon the system by this traffic. Fortunately, this demand for specialised rolling stock occurred at a time when there was a surplus of rolling stock available and eventually some thirty different diagrams were issued, as a variety of surplus stock was converted for the carriage of steel coils, in varying capacities. 1/412 Coil Wagons were first allocated for cold reduced coil traffic from John Summers, at Hawarden Bridge during 1962 and by 1975, 35 vehicles were in Pool 3019, working Hawarden Bridge to various locations that included Leith South, Wolverhampton Steel Terminal, Whitehall Road in Leeds, Pressed Steel at Swindon, Stroud (for Elphor Ltd, a subsidiary of John Summers and Sons and producers of aluminium coated steel strip up to 45cm wide) and Jackson and Bell at Watford North. By 1971 examples of Coil A wagons could also be found at South Shields, and at Middlesbrough by 1975, by which point 15 were allocated to Pool 1307 on hire to the British Steel Corporation at Motherwell. They were also to be seen at Grangemouth Docks and at Ebbw Vale in traffic from Gartcosh with Coil B, Coil E, Coil G, Coil L and Coil T wagons. By the middle of 1976, Coil A wagons were to be seen on inter-regional traffic at Severn Tunnel Junction, running with Bogie Coil G (JGV) wagons and during 1979 some of the diagram were involved in movements between Lackenby and Strood, carrying hot rolled coil rather than cold reduced coil, working alongside Bogie Coil M (JMV) stock. By 1981 examples were working from Goole Docks alongside ex-SPV Coil D (KDV) stock and during 1982 several examples were noted at Newport Docks, branded to Pool 7121 alongside JGV stock. They were also working to British Leyland at Swindon, Brierley Hill and to Ford at Dagenham. By 1984, the 29 remaining vehicles were used on South Wales workings, along with the 27 Coil B survivors, particularly to Newport Docks where most of the survivors collected but also to Hamworthy Docks at Poole. In 1986 several examples worked to Avonmouth but by early 1992 the 21 surviving vehicles were all operating out of Llanwern, along with the remaining SGW types, but only to the end of the year, by which time the last examples were scrapped. Judging by pre-orders so far many modellers seem to like a bit of quirk, with our three packs on offer proving very popular indeed. Overall, we are quite happy with the fine printing, detail and colours, with some amendments carried out to give the hood a more canvas type appearance. However, there is still some seam lines to be removed and corrections to the imprint of the stretcher bars at the ends of the canvas top to be made. The wagon well should be brown, not black as per this sample, but this will be corrected for the production variants. However, these are minor corrections and the delivery date of these wagons remains unaffected at Q3 2021. Prices are £74.95 per triple pack and you can pre-order via one of over 100 Accurascale stockists, or direct by clicking here. View the full article

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That's better

Correct, and they still own the tools.

Never say never, but the 141/181 tooling ownership means it's unlikely.

It’s fair to assume any of the items suggested by MM are well into 2022 at the earliest.

Time for yet another project update! Today we bring you the decorated samples of our forthcoming 21ton mineral wagon family, namely the MDO and MDV wagons. We revealed these beauties at the Festival of Railways Virtual Show back in November, showcasing tooled samples of both the diagram 1/107 (later classed as MDO under the TOPS system) and the British Railways vacuum braked 21 Ton mineral wagon diagram 1/120 (later classed as MDV under the TOPS system). This announcement went down very well indeed with modellers, as finally a ready-to-run model of these humdrum but essential wagons for much of the BR era was on its way. These are rough decorated samples which we received from the factory during Chinese New Year. While we are happy with many parts of the decorated samples, there are still some areas that will need attention before production can commence. This includes the wagon plate area, the white on the handbrake handles and general paint coverage. However, overall they show great promise, with some beautiful printing of panels in particular. Improvements will also be made in the brake shoe area of the MDOs and general fit and finish to areas such as the handles and brake gear. The unfitted 21 Ton mineral wagons (later MDO) were introduced in 1950 building on from previous GWR wagon designs. A total of 1,500 wagons were built to diagram 1/107 and featured oil axle boxes, two doors either side with another at one end only for end tipping. These wagons remained in service until 1987, running in block trains and mixed with other coal wagons such as 16 Ton minerals, 21 Ton hoppers, 24.5 Ton hoppers and others. The last outpost for MDOs was on workings between Llanelli and Swansea Docks as the unloading facility could not end-tip vacuum-fitted wagons at the time. Meanwhile the vacuum braked 21 Ton mineral wagon (later MDV) began service in 1961 as a development of diagram 1/107 platform, featuring additional flap doors over the side doors, roller bearings and vacuum braking. A total of 3,950 wagons were built to the 1.120 that our model represents. Once again these wagons ran both in block trains and mixed with other coal wagons such as 16 Ton minerals, 24.5 Ton minerals (later MEO) and hopper wagons like the 21 Ton BR hoppers. The MDVs soldiered on in service until 1992, representing an interesting traditional wagon throwback in the exciting railfreight sectorisation era. Price per three wagon pack is £74.95 with bundle deals available as always, giving you further savings. Delivery is slated for Q3 2021 with production about to get under way. They are available to pre-order direct right here or via one of over 100 local stockists! View the full article

http://www.murphymodels.com

Our shipping is already flat rate, based on spend, so the more you buy, the cheaper relatively it gets

At least 25~33% of Irish modelers are actually in the UK. That’s a lot to do with why some UK retailers stock Murphy models.

Models. They won’t be confused with real ones

Straying dangerously into political talk NIR. The fact is there is nothing to bring up with revenue or Europe. if you are outside the UK buying from the UK is now treated the same as from any non EU country. So you import anything from the UK to your home location.

Factories are just slowly returning to work from the new year holidays. In the coming week we should have a solid shipping date.

Public companies and bodies don’t charge licenses but permission to use branding of current items is a courtesy if not strictly required. We had to secure permission from the government of Scotland to produce the mark 5 coaches in Caledonian sleeper branding.

It depends on the brand. For companies like Stobart and others licenses and permissions and in some cases royalties are paid. For others permission is enough. There is EU legal prescedent supporting the opinion that making a scale model of something necessitates it looking like the big version so isn’t a breach of a trademark or copyright unless the original item is protected already in scale or model form.

And for customers in the UK, you can visit https://irishrailwaymodels.co.uk/collections/rpsi

We only did 4 packs BtB. A,B,C and D