BosKonay

You should have a confirmation email when you ordered with a link? 

https://www.accurascale.com/collections/gwr-7800-manor-class

Next day DPD shipping - you will pay VAT on arrival, rather than on the website, but the exact same cost 

Hey George

The €9.95 is vat exclusive and we do provide free EU post when you spend over €100 so you should have saved the €5.95 and then just effectively paid the vat on entry (making it all the same as if you were in the UK). Unfortunately we just can’t subsidize the postage on smaller spends and even €5.95 is well below cost. 

3 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said:

Received an email from IRM today saying that "pre-orders have been massive and some of the variants are approaching 50% sold already!"

No excuses and no sitting on the fence, get your plastic or your cheque book out and get splurging!

Also, @Warbonnet, you mis-spelled "beet" in the thread title.

Just to remind it’s NO money down. So placing an order is 100% free, nothing to pay until in stock and cancel any time

I may have to

limits DJs stalking abilities

For me i’ve ordered some of the CIE ones but ultimately they’re not really a ‘model’ more an impression so i’d rather spend the money on accurate models  

working now 

3 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said:

 

No international postage available since the Royal Mail Cyber Attack, so I'm looking for alternatives.

There are so many variants of the Next18 LokPilot that I'm confused. Looks like 59118 and 59128 are the two main ones but I can't see on the AS site which it is.

 

 

Although, I must say that Accurascale branching out and selling tampons and advertising personal trainers is a great cross-merchandising exercise, very impressed:

 

 

accurascale ships direct from Bimingham with DHL. it’s never used RM international and has only just added it as an option for local delivery.

Dhl is available there as always to the Canaries. Hope that helps. 

24 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

So...

Could you "speculate" ( ) as to another retailer of A/S decoders?

accurascale.com ?  

1 minute ago, BosKonay said:

accurascale.com ?  

Spend over €100 and we even pay the postage. 

On 1/11/2023 at 4:51 PM, DJ Dangerous said:

 

I chose Cookham Manor because I think that's the eighties preserved livery, so ties in with the BR blue that I remember.

A tech question for @BosKonay's boys:

Will an A Class LokPilot damage Cookham Manor or will she run well on one with no damage? I'd like to be able to try her on DCC and that's the only option for the foreseeable future.

Original IRM Steam Speculation thread:

 

 

The Manor needs a next18 lokpilot as a 21 pin wouldn’t fit unfortunately 

2 minutes ago, Sean said:

Arent they on the ballast chassis?  

Afraid not either

1 hour ago, Noel said:

Doubt there is enough demand for an Irish Steam loco to make a production run of sufficient size to be economic and profitable.  Perhaps folks buy a current DCC ready bachmann in one of the BR liveries and respray to GSWR/CIE grey. Its an easy paint job, there is no lining needed just logo transfers.

You never know  At least one of the new tools underway at irm towers is steamy. 

If it’s railroad then dcc options will be limited too. Best option is to wait and see once further details are shared by Marks models! 

17 minutes ago, murphaph said:

Did the double decker beet wagons in use in the mid 90s use the same chassis or were the bodies welded onto a later chassis type?

Different chassis unfortunately 

Will be interesting to see which hornby tooling it is

51 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

 

Just to clarify, is this the correct url for members to log-in and see their pre-orders?

https://irishrailwaymodels.com/apps/preorder_portal

Yep. you will have a link in your preorder confirmation. As soon as paddy confirms price and arrival we’ll convert to real orders. 

4 minutes ago, Wexford70 said:

How many were in a typical beet train in the 80s?

All of them

No droop here  

13 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

Display purposes only?

Fondling may be allowed too

4 hours ago, Westcorkrailway said:

I’m waiting for the little electric shunter sample 

They’ll be on display at the show

They are expected around year end, around the same time as the IRM MK2 NIR range

https://irishrailwaymodels.com/collections/murphy-models-mark-2d-coaches

16 minutes ago, Patrick Davey said:

So there are possibly two brand new announcements coming from IRM at the show in a couple of weeks… I am not seeing a countdown timer on the website though?

https://irishrailwaymodels.com/blogs/announcements

37 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

Almost sure that @BosKonay said no when I asked about this, as the bogies and lighting are integrated, but I'm open to correction.

They are integrated with the pickup and lighting system however we are looking at ways we can package them up once al the runs have landed as we did for the 42’ flats / tara’s. We also have a tail lamp solution on the way as a small accessory add on. 

Soon - it got somewhat waylaid during the pandemic but is back on course now.