Noel

My cunning plan is working perfectly then But only if the seats are prototypically hard

Robert it is indeed a classic conundrum.

The specs sound amazing. What is really nice is the buffers look the right scale length for compressed mode when coupled up close with another wagon (i.e. rather than fully extended like a standalone uncoupled wagon). This may allow scale distances between the wagons in a rake when coupled (i.e. similar to Bachmann's coupling distances and adapted buffer lengths).

Looking forward to it. I'm sure it will be a class event.

Sheep herd panic? Its not the end of the world, when it does eventually snow folks will be able to get to the shops in within a few days!!! These met office alerts amplified by a hysterical media just worry people unnecessarily.

I nearly fainted looking at those layout scenes.

Get your end of the world shop done tomorrow! Ever since the met office introduced 'alerts' the media seem to hype up routine winter weather events be it storms, frost, snow, etc (e.g. Teresa Mannion, storm ophelia, etc). The prophets of doom are predicting varying levels of snow later this week, ranging from 1cm of snow to worse than 1982 and 2010? Continentals nearly die laughing at how the least amount of snow brings Ireland to a stand still. Photo Irish Rail website

Excellent work. Really precise and neat.

Hi Dave. Most folks use AddressPal or ParcelMotel from UK rather than eBay'ers ripoff postage to Ireland. €62.50+ €8.20 p&p = €70.70 (via AddressPal) Expensive but well less than the insane prices some EGVs have achieved on eBay over the past few years. Rare as hens teeth. Noel

Spotted an IE/IR Mk2 EGV on eBay for not mad money, easy to paint roof orange for anybody who wants an all orange tippex EGV. https://www.ebay.ie/itm/Murphy-Models-IE-InterCity-Mk-2-Generator-Van-MM5602-Black-Roof/162915508129?hash=item25ee855fa1:g:YbkAAOSwY19akDMM

Congrats. Stunning achievement for a new and foreign entrant to the vast UK market to effectively get 10% of the vote, especially when the cement wagons only became visible to that market in the latter part of the year. Well done Stephen, Richie, Patrick and Fran.

So you dared to actually handle the coach without using gloxing boves for protection, prized the bogies off, fitted the washers, and put it away again without even playing with it?

Enjoyed watching your project evolve. That rake of double beets looks fabulous. Very professional video too. Respect.

Dave have you had a chance to test run MM1509? Does it wobble like the RPSI cravens? I understand they were made in the same factory.

Attempt using washer to remove RPSI Craven Wobble failed. I made 120 plastic card shim washers and fitted them, perhaps 115 might have been better. Unfortunately they did not improve the wobble one iota. Will try MMs washers when they become available but not optimistic based on my experiment with a plastic washer. Yes the RPSI craven bogies are harder to remove, as somebody suggested it must be a harder plastic, flat screwdriver underneath helped prise them off by hand. Shim washer cut from 120 plastic sheet - perhaps 115 might have been better, but I filed it a bit thinner anyway. This had no effect whatsoever on the RPSI Craven Wobble.

Dave might be no harm to add the above comment to one of the serious threads on the RPSI cravens rather than in here in 'Letting off steam' Just for future searchers in case they thought the start of this thread was serious.

Yea that makes sense. I must have misunderstood when chatting with Paddy Murphy at the SDMRC trade show about the livery of the new coach.

Nice but I thought this coach was due to be CIE livery (i.e. single white stripe), to match with 1504, 1515 and 1149. Bogie problem is easy to fix with a DIY plastic shim or wait for MM parts due soon.

The DCC plug on the loco PCB will be missing one pin (i.e. have 21 instead of 22), and the DCC socket on the decoder chip will have one of the pin sockets blocked off (i.e. so a pin cannot go through it and only 21 holes open). It should look like orientation in the photo below. This is to prevent folk plugging the chip in the wrong way around See the missing pin below on the lower left side of the DCC plug on the loco PCB. Here's another angle of a 21pin lenz decoder installed

Kieran (kirley junction) received them in the post from Murphy Models.

The Scots and Welsh might not like that classification! Enjoy, especially if Ireland beat the British rugby team

You won't be allowed to bring gloxing boves into the stadium! Enjoy - it. St Paddy's day in twickers will be one great occasion.

One of our dear brethren over on the FaceBook site asked how to get the bogies off an RPSI craven in order to fit the clever Murphy Models shim fixes for the wobbley RPSI cravens. My answer below. (tongue in check you understand and which sub-forum this post was made in). Get a decent vice grips out of the tractor toolbox, clamp the coach body firmly in a bench vice, then clamp the vice grips on the bogie, place a 1" chisel between the bogie and under frame, then give the chisel a belt with a block hammer and the bogie should fly off, but recommend tying some bailing twine to it beforehand so you don't lose it when it flies off! Just kidding Seriously the bogies just pull off by hand. The are plastic snap fittings. See real pic below.

Very old video clip taken with long lens from the sea, hence the motion and camera shake, but gives an interesting perspective on the Bray head rail line as a three set DMU passes by. Hope its of some use to TinTin. Actually I think there was a Dart and a DMU in the mix of pics and video.

Agree. I tend to use balsa 1/4" strips for structural stability and to avoid long term warping that plastic card is prone to, particularly if exposed to sunlight for periods of the day (i.e. near a window).