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We are delighted to announce that our forthcoming highly exclusive CIÉ/Irish Rail 24850-24854 series ballast plough van, is now available to pre-order in original CIE condition as an additional bonus model in the 2018 IRM range. Five of the CIÉ/Irish Rail 24850-24854 series vans were introduced in 1978 to supersede elderly pre-grouping vans for the Civil Engineering Department. They usually ran in pairs, top and tailing ballast hopper trains with the plough/veranda facing inward across the Irish railway network until their withdrawal in 2013. We had previously announced the vans in later IR and IE condition, but after calls from modellers an additional pack in original CIE condition has now been added to the production run, strictly limited to 250 packs. The CIE plough vans will be faithful to the prototypes, lacking the later applied mesh screening over all the windows and it will also feature the half-sized doors on the veranda of each van. The vans will come finished in yellow with CIE roundels as per the real thing. The model will utilise the same chassis as the ballast hopper and cement bubbles as per prototype, and will include features such as fully detailed interior, including bunks and heaters for the crew, as well as full DCC control of interior and tail lights via a two function 6 pin decoder. (sold separately) The vans will also feature a switch for these features for analogue control users. The Plough Vans will be made in a strictly limited production run with the vans coming in a pack of two for a sale price of €119.95. They will make a perfect companion for a new run of IRM Ballast hoppers with CIE roundel livery which we plan to release in 2019. Discount bundles will also be offered for those buying all three packs of plough vans, with a special price of €340 for all three sets, meaning the CIE set will cost just €100, a saving of €19.95! This will be open to those who have previously ordered both IR and IE packs who wish to add the CIE pack to their order, with an email being sent to customers with a personal discount code enclosed later today. If you have already bought one pack, and wish to add the other two and receive the special offer, email us with your order number and we will process it for you. This price reflects the very small production volume and complexity of the model. The adapting of the moulds to account for the tooling changes required to offer the plough van means that delivery of all the plough van models including IR and IE livery will now be pushed back to October 2018. Orders are now being taken here. View the full article

Looks like perhaps a short DNS blip. All looks good now

How much do you want for them Tony?

I would generally run the mainline at the back which will give you the largest possible radii / rate of turn, which will make bogied freight and coaches (and larger locos) look and run best. you also get the added benefit of the mainline running passing in and behind scenery, buildings, etc, giving more of a sense of 'travel' if you know what I mean

8-12 I think was the norm. From the IRRS Journal, 2002 " On Wednesday 19 December, 230 + 12 bogies of fertiliser arrived in Portlaoise at 10.15. The next day saw 10 laden fertiliser wagons in Adelaide yard in Belfast. On Thursday 20 December, 10 empty fertiliser bogies were worked to Shelton Abbey, (Arklow) to be loaded for Belfast. Fifty-four empty bogie-fertiliser wagons were observed in North Wall in early December."

I think that's an absolute given

More blips this morning, there is an issue with one of the other accounts, impacting the server storage, terminating with extreme prejudice now

To the best of my knowledge...

Apologies for the small outage earlier, the vast amount of postings and images managed to fill up the servers drive, which needed a transplant All good now, thanks for your patience!

RIP

Hi Barl many thanks for the post! ill check into the gift card glitch. It should not include VAT! you can order on the website and choose bank transfer. This then pushes the order to our accounting system which is a lot more flexible than the web front end. Once you have the order ID you can send funds by card, PayPal, online banking, gift card or cash by carrier pigeon!

Cheers MMIE, will fix that now!

Hi chris could you PM me your account email and I’ll take a look! Thanks! Hi Dive The old site would have orders placed through it. (The new site integrates all online and offline / event point of sale activity into a single account) can you drop me the emails you received and I’ll check your account t for you?

I reckon it's feasible for short run items, say 25-50 items. On that bases, a coach, for example would work out at (best case) 100-150 euro a coach (bearing in mind you'd still need bogies, assembly, etc).

Hi JHB, Essentially, you'd need to commission a CAD tech with 3D printing experience to produce the item in a CAD format suitable for printing. For a coach say, you are probably looking at €2000 or so in time / cost for that bit. Then, upload to shapeways or a similar service, and you'd probably pay between 60-100 euro per print, assuming high end materials, and a moderate number of parts and size of parts.

I agree Noel, the tech is coming on well, and I can loosley confirm, without giving much away that the 'blank' flats with die-cast chassis, etc, from IRM will cost a 2 digit percentage less than your cost above.

Hopefully that's already clear in the new Tara Mines wagon pack prices

Chunkier than the real thing, but surprisingly smooth finish

Disk filled up leading to upgrades and some file system repairs!

Cheers snapper, the varnish cache is misbehaving lately causing the error the odd time, it's on my 'to-do' to overhaul and upgrade!

Ingenius, allows you to populate and interior decorate the rooms over time too!

Done!