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The home page talks of 4mm and 7m scales but it seems to me that all the Irish stuff is probably 7mm, correct?

I think that you can take it that Full IR means fully lined/fully repainted/re-liveried IR livery and anything else is a transitional livery with the 'temporary' rebranding with new logos on a precedent livery

Dave, you've been in the sun too long

It seems to me that the UK system has a little more practical import as there are models available for most periods, some more than others obviously (full disclosure, I no longer have any real interest in British modeling for the last 20 years) In an Irish setting most of the models being produced in recent times are mostly 1970s onwards with earlier eras substantially under represented or not at all, and I don't really see that changing. Sure there are possibilities to create many things when resorting to scratch building or kits, I understand that. The pre-1970s A Class are being produced solely (thank the Lord!) as a result of being part of a lot with the later variant A classes. As for Irish track no classification required there at all. I think that most important thing to most modelers (well to me anyway) is to have as much information on the prototype that the product represents, years of service in particular and specific details seen on the model (which is often taken for granted by the mature gricer but may not be ever even spotted by a newbie who buys over the counter (virtual or otherwise))

I haven't been on the site much for the last few months so apologies for such a late comment on these lovely photos. I don't believe that I have seen the bogies TPO in the silver livery before at least not in color. Smashing shot! This appears to be one of the 1906-7 GSWR-built tricomposite brake coaches with clerestory roof built for the Cork-Rosslare boat train. Its sister 861 is preserved by the RPSI and all were listed as secondary stock by February 1961 only 4 months after this photo.

Interest in one or maybe 2

Not if they won't do it in 21mm gauge, that looks to be the 16.5mm version

Yes, indeed! Stunning difference

I have the same problem with forming the tumblehome so if you find any easy method feel free to post

The problem is a lack of respect. ..... which is what you get for bringing a knife to a gunfight. Here's a rerun of 'gunning the red' at Coolmine LC

Those of us that survived the pandemic will be, sure, but for those that did not, there will be no reopening at all Actually you probably shouldn't have. Everyone who has died from coronavirus acquired it from someone else, both parties being responsible for being irresponsible. Contact tracing being nothing near what it should be, many of us will have unknowingly passed virus to someone else often at their expense and not yours. NIR original's point was correct and the laissez faire attitude of many, more privileged individuals and feckless 'leaders' has allowed the SARS-Cov-2 virus enough time and viral load for natural evolutionary changes to occur. Evolutionary change occurs slowly in mammals, almost non-existent in some homo 'sapiens' it's true. However, over a year is more than enough time for a virus with this rate of replication to mutate. B117 variants and others will now become (are already) the dominant strains and will continue to claim even more first world lives and then continue again in underdeveloped countries long after Europe and the US has been vaccinated. NOT going on your skiing holiday probably saved a person's life somewhere on the globe, possibly even your own. Its just impossible to show you that non-existent data

I do like the 6w variant of the 3153-6 series heating van although we''ll not see a higher quality version of it. There were only 4 of them iirc in an era that's not currently catered for very much. They weighed in a a whopping 21T on a 30ft body with twin boilers but ooze 60s era. Stuck behind a black A class, maybe even a yellow warning panel would be super class. I don't think the SF model probably does real justice to the width, profile and detail of the prototype but very nice to have all the same.

Any chance of some 'swap bodies' of the magnesite then?

Some views at 12:15 and an end profile (in the dark), not much help maybe but still an enjoyable watch

Done

Why on 47' flats only? Are the high Cubes predominantly 45' in length like P&O? (40' HiCube are being used on the 47" like ONE also)

Not everyone wound have predicted how successful IRM offerings have been with progressively larger runs. Product availability is the first thing that will tempt the potential modeling.

I enquired about this several years ago at IRM. I got a firm no because if the intricacies involved in creating the track and the points and there was some discussion about prototypical crossings. I have been planning a larger layout and was procrastinating about narrow gauge versus 21mm. No sign of 21mm track and finally resigned to having to stick to 16.5 even though I have one or two steams locos guaged to 21mm. I need a lot of track and cannot see myself building it AND converting the stock. The latter I would do if I had flexitrack, a long express point and a shorter points for yards. So design is going to have to wait to see the outcome of this. I do agree with the sentiments above regarding stock being available as 21mm with conversion possible to 16.5 as needed. This would be a huge leap forward for Irish modeling looking to the future and finally get us away from a half century old attachment to diminutive early steam locos and primitive motors. As for legacy stock issues, I know this is a concern for me too, but the bigger picture moving forward a decade is likely to be improved replacement Irish outline stock in 21mm

Seemingly from the RMWeb discussion the momentum button can be disabled ( in the manual apparently )

@irishthumpThanks for that. I'm not an DCC expert so I want to be sure that I have a compatible decoder for that bespoke PCB

Which ESU V5 Loksound chip is appropriate fro the 121 and 141? I was looking at this .... ESU 58419 LokSound 5 DCC/MM/SX/M4 21MTC NEM660 LSP 11x15mm

There were some photos on one of the threads but I don't recall where? Regardless of how compatibility with 21mm reguaging was worded, some modelers seem to have experienced some issues with the chassis on the bubbles (and ballasts) not being wide enough to accommodate that without filing down the plastic on the inside to accommodate the wheels at at the correct back to back setting. The ploughs of course were not retooled, nor the gypsums I imagine. Since these were designed to be sold in rakes, there will be some work involved depending on how many you need to do. I'll post the reference of I find it

Phil @murphaphis there any possibility you might post the relevant eSU file and the horns? After shelling gout for three Wt projects I'm looking for a alternative way to contain costs for future 121 and 141 sound decoders. I know you're in Germany. Where are you sourcing your chips? The LokSound V5 in the US and Australasian markets are V5 DCC chips which have some differences (most notably that they cannot be run temporarily on DC)

Probably no advantage to the sound aspect per se as they'll use the same or very similar prime mover sound files but there may definitely be some advantages to having your headlights and marker lights work independently and more advanced motion control options as you become used to the driving characteristics. I had planned to purchase the 567 and 645 chips and waited for them to come in stock. They did and the 567 rapidly sold out again at IRM and Marks while I was procrastinating about buying some more Supertrain and BnT 121s. Since I've nothing else to order from IRM at the moment, I just ordered 3 chips from Wheeltappers including a 141 project to see how that sounds.