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3 hours ago, amdaley said:

Is it still £23 with DHL ?

£23 is the lowest price, it’s goes up in small increments as the weight increases..

I got a loco, a coach, some containers and a few diecasts sent over and it was £28 for 3-4kgs.. 

He is right.. it's madness to put more Lo/Lo capacity on the South side of the river for a number of reasons but mainly that the Glass Bottle site is about to have a ton of apartments build on it, the residents of which will not want the noise of container handling on their doorstep, also stacks of containers aren't nice to look at to most people(a few individuals on here spring to mind as notable exceptions) and gantry cranes with running lights at third story level accross the road.. 

A better plan would be: 

1) Move the liquid oils and Tar business out to Bremore(with provision/future proofing to hydrogen), overcome the lack of deep water by building a Dolphin offshore connected to land by a undersea pipeline.. The presence of so much petroleum products in the port area actually limits the development of the surrounding areas under SEVESO regs.. This could be served by a siding of the Belfast line is demand sufficed..

2) using the space made available on the north side, expand lo/lo ops all along the river bank.. Close Alex road and incorporate it into the new terminal. This has the added benefit of keeping Lo/Lo on the Northside which has rail connections

3) Build a new Ro/Ro terminal on the south side, Ro/Ro has less of the issues than Lo/Lo, so is a better neighbour than a container terminal.

1 minute ago, DJ Dangerous said:

 

The solvents or the containers?

I was assuming you had adequate ventilation, if not then its a double whammy!

6 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said:

Finished off the Eucons a week ago.

Drilled the holes out using a twist drill with a 1mm bit, stuck on a drop of Super Glue and the pins fell into place by themselves.

Also finished sticking locking bars onto some of the fuzzy Dapol Ferrymasters and Samskips.

 

 

I'd say your vision is going fuzzy after doing all of those!

14 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

 

No ContainerShips???

These 6 of them with the sausages, rashers and butter you asked for!

6 hours ago, popeye said:

3 x 45ft Bachmann Ferrymaster containers £30.00

Hard to get these.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/285184979071?epid=1172889894&hash=item426659707f:g:Cv0AAOSwP75kEHiU&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA8NrHOWqRrskLW0DnkHu%2Fyl343ga6OVBy%2BqtubEh0QjoZ%2BTeKEoJtFZu4JnjnvY2lTqjpQtApqheguqvaSAULZIPRMk%2FzUAUGCdzFLhEVoQ%2FfYSXJ%2BGIrF9RHCAUS2cs2OiXqzGSt9ALw%2BgCGeV13kqx%2FK2h25IXNvt81yzAD%2BDHTP%2FoSymeSSDUM7wxmR9tdukvHwIs%2F%2FDqJdAcJ34wk7YduXwoCLDtl%2B8hPTB9zFoKozegbBwdPreDVrinApUt0uFNeRMyWm8v5wv5g91ErC1NZlM23pO3ErViJqIEm2CwNYo2%2B%2BeR5FOY7vtAeBvD62w%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR5if64DvYQ

Try typing that out.

Dapol have done this one as a two pack with a Samskip also, hazzy fuzzy printing but the tooling is more representative of a modern LEG1 than the Bachmann 13.6m tooling

@Darius43, did I spy a Stolly in your workbench thread? 

On 18/3/2023 at 3:23 PM, JasonB said:

Not sure. As I said, my Dad picked them up recently and gave them to me. 

I think he said he bought them from a chap selling them through one of the modelling groups on Facebook. 

Michael Brady is the guys name.. Think he lists his stuff on eBay also… Nice models if a bit out of my price range, those vans were €25 each but you can see the time and skill that goes into them in the results

Decent price for the MK2s since some went for €100-€125 each on Facebook during the week.. Sod’s Law it’s the day I’m out and about they go up(and back down).. Missed out on the MK2s when IRM had the Murphy’s stock too as I didn’t realise they had them! Some day soon hopefully, but if not at least I’ll have MK2s/bs and NIR MK2s by the end of the year

I have a few Irish and Northern Buses lookings for new homes.. All in original boxes and good condition.. Based in D7/D15 area or can arrange post at cost

EFE Translink Wright Renown- €40- SOLD

Corgi OOC Plaxton Premiere in Bus Eireann Eurolines €30

Corgi OOC Plaxton Excalibur in Ulsterbus Tours livery €25

9 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

 

Grand, I was looking for an excuse to not do any more of them tonight.

I couldn't figure out another bar combination that would have looked prototypical. There's no way to get four handles the same height onto a container with two handles facing left and two handles facing right.

Exactly that,  I only figured it out after I had glued all 4 bars on! 

7 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

Yeah, real pain. Seriously, how the Hell are you supposed to clean the bits of the sprues off the bars without breaking the bars?

To avoid gluing my hands to anything, I just used a cocktail stick to put a tiny drop of glue into each of the four holes for one bar, dropped that into place, then repeated for the next one. It was less dangerous than gluing the protrusions on the bars themselves, but did lead to glue splodges on a few doors.

Just checking, and the blue Ferrymasters boxes definitely came with blue locking bars. Should these ideally be painted a metal colour?

 

Never seen a box with painted bars, they are normally just cast iron..

Also, the way the bars are made, they can only be done correctly the way you have done them.. The other way doesn’t work.. Will take pic’s tomorrow to show you what I mean

7 hours ago, irishrailways52 said:

Hello. only just found out yesterday that the loco haled Sperry train is now coming to an end. does anyone know where it will be so I can film it one last time. 

thanks

Where are you based? Heading to Cork this week I think 

10 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

I'm not sure if "extensively" was the exact wording used. It was more like "do your worst" ...

I guess I owe you an Abrakebabra if I ever get off the island and get my back side up to the Raheney show.

Due to be Blackrock this year I think, will have to spring for a foive goys!

35 minutes ago, iarnrod said:

The interior white plastic packaging on the MM 201's is no way near up to the job for postage, and many 201's have arrived to me over the years with front end damage after bursting through the white inner plastic during transit.

Some retailers reinforce this white inner plastic with bubble wrap or hard foam to counteract it's weak nature.

 

My 210 arrived with the white plastic cracked and the loco sitting at a funny angle.. Besides the steps on the bogie frame, no appparent damage to the loco thankfully.. The packaging in the 071s was a bit sturdier I think, so obviously the lesson was learnt

On 5/2/2023 at 7:03 PM, murphaph said:

I picked up the 40' Hanjin 8'6 and the 20' DAL 8'6 dry boxes in Marks the other day. I mainly wanted the Hanjin but I'm wondering does anyone know for sure if such a DAL container ever ran in Ireland?

Credit to the unknown photographer.

I would say unlikely I'm afraid.. DAL were east Africa specialists(bought out by Hapag in 2020).. The only time I have seen DAL equipment in Ireland, was a small pile in CTS in Dublin Port.. Not sure if they ever moved from there even! 

Just now, BosKonay said:

Maybe we should have eBay'd them for 300 quid! lol

Nah, thats not us

No, your style is more, release at a fair price, flood the market, instant drop in 2nd hand values! Fair play again!

15 minutes ago, BosKonay said:

In this case, our old UK facility, we cleared out, shifted over a pallet of bits and found stock they'd miscounted  Win Win

Some nice older wagon stock, previously long sold out too

https://irishrailwaymodels.com/collections/wagons/availability_in-stock?sort_by=created-ascending

Thanks Stephen, just saved 100 on a yellow faced 201.. Just missed out on the full yellow front Enterprise 201 though.. The guy I was in touch with about buying a 201 for €250-€275 is probably wondering what he did wrong right about now!

Hope your hungry @DJ Dangerous

On 18/2/2023 at 6:12 PM, airfixfan said:

Knockmore line now severed at Lisburn end.

Again? Where is it this time?

Airfix Hurricane Mk1(early) getting a first coat on the pre-war black and white undersides.. Have made slow progress doing a little bit 20mins at a time on lunch breaks.. A nice easy kit with some good crisp mould lines/details, and the modular approach with different propellor, tail fin and fuselage/tail wheel underside options is an excellent one IMO, allowing the small differences over the life of the MK1 to be modelled.. 

A nice history, and of more sentimental value than building the airfix kit.. I have the airfix one in the stash here, have put building one of the long finger for years now, but thinking of doing one as HSL 108 being captured by an Arado 196 or else HSL 108 in German service after being repaired(if I can find any pictures for reference)

10 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

So while nice, they don't fit that modular / multi-use mindset that most IRM products to date have.

You could probably find some overlap to come up with some sort of modular construction that could reduce the costs versus tooling two seperate wagons for each market.. Plus the Irish bogie is already available in the IRM range..

But even in terms of interest, the CPWs would likely be much lower on people’s list than say an LX flat or an Ammonia(which has a very similar UK prototype for Accurascale).. They only ran 2003-2005 and then intermittently between about 2011 and 2019.. I know I would be happy to stick with my resprayed Dapol KTA/KQA which look pretty close when loaded with 2 empty tanks or a 40ft container for the next 3-4 years, rather than splash out for new models at the expense of say the MK2s or an extra ICR

7 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said:

Is there anything that the Irish and British pocket platforms share?

Manufacturer and design concept.. Not sure if much else beyond that..

Different lengths and bogies, plus the existing Dapol model make an IRM/Accurscale overlap model unlikely.. Lots of other wagons to be done first in both ranges 

12 minutes ago, connollystn said:

The KQA pocket container wagons would be a great addition to any layout and wouldn't be surprised is they were among the major announcements this year. They've been a long time coming.

Dapol already do KQA pocket wagons.. Surely that would be an accurascale product rather than an IRM one?