MRSI Dublin Show - October 29-31st 2022

[BosKonay]

One assumes the new ones won’t be ‘silly money’. They are made by bachmann after all 

[Westcorkrailway]

6 hours ago, WRENNEIRE said:

Hot off the press:
From Murphy models 

1. He is showing pre-production samples of Class141/181 locos this week-end at the MRSI show. There will be 1 new fleet number in each of the four liveries (CIE, Supertrain, IR, IE) in both loco types.  There will be a number of improvements, including the fitting of a speaker. He will forward photos of all versions next week.  No guidance on price due to the volatility of currency markets.  

 

2. Also at the show he will have examples of the Mark2d coach in IR livery. As before, there will be 1^st., standard, composite, restaurant and egv. Photos to follow. There will be a new bogie to conform with the prototype and will facilitate 21mm conversions.

 

EBay scalpers a sweating as we speak! 

 

[murphaph]

12 minutes ago, BosKonay said:

One assumes the new ones won’t be ‘silly money’. They are made by bachmann after all 

I honestly have no idea what Bachmann or any other GB outline retailer charges for stuff as I only collect Irish outline. If they cost silly money I will have to leave them for someone else to buy. Rule 0 (the wife is always right) would come into play 

 

[Blaine]

On 26/11/2021 at 3:38 PM, DJ Dangerous said:

That A Class is something else!

Its going to be there on display, somewhere....

[Flying Snail]

46 minutes ago, murphaph said:

Great news, especially for newcomers who are paying silly money for baby GMs. I have all 9 of the ones appropriate to my era but I strongly suspect I will be unable to resist taking one each of the new release in IR & IE, boosting my baby GM fleet by almost 50%!

Absolutely - I'm not going to lie: I did a little dance when I saw that. Been looking at the prices some of these were fetching on eBay and had given up ever getting my hands on one. 

[Horsetan]

35 minutes ago, Westcorkrailway said:

 

EBay scalpers a sweating as we speak! 

Doubt it. They'll probably try to hoover up as much of the new production as possible to protect their investment. These are people who don't worry about utility bills or the cost of existing.

[DJ Dangerous]

8 hours ago, WRENNEIRE said:

Hot off the press:
From Murphy models 

1. He is showing pre-production samples of Class141/181 locos this week-end at the MRSI show. There will be 1 new fleet number in each of the four liveries (CIE, Supertrain, IR, IE) in both loco types.  There will be a number of improvements, including the fitting of a speaker. He will forward photos of all versions next week.  No guidance on price due to the volatility of currency markets.  

 

2. Also at the show he will have examples of the Mark2d coach in IR livery. As before, there will be 1^st., standard, composite, restaurant and egv. Photos to follow. There will be a new bogie to conform with the prototype and will facilitate 21mm conversions.

 

Ha!

You and your never again!

Would you like ketchup with that hat?

Being serious, though, this is awesome news! Thank you for letting everybody know, and presumably, you had a hand in guiding the behind the scenes decisions!

Sounds like there will be eight locos launched in total, a 141 and a 181, in each of the four main liveries?

And the scalpers like @Look-its-evan will be frothing at the mouths, not sweating!

 

8 hours ago, WRENNEIRE said:

 

 

8 hours ago, WRENNEIRE said:

 

 

 

Edited October 27, 2022 by DJ Dangerous

[Westcorkrailway]

To quote Ed Fahey “this isint like the stock market, it’s only going to go up.” 

[Westcorkrailway]

Has there ever been a more mad morning in Irish modelling history?

[Blaine]

4 hours ago, Westcorkrailway said:

Has there ever been a more mad morning in Irish modelling history?

Yes - when Mister Murphy dropped the 201 out of nowhere complete with a sample

[Westcorkrailway]

16 minutes ago, Blaine said:

Yes - when Mister Murphy dropped the 201 out of nowhere complete with a sample

When was that, the early 2000s 201 or the early 2010s upgraded version?

[Blaine]

Just now, Westcorkrailway said:

When was that, the early 2000s 201 or the early 2010s upgraded version?

The upgraded one

[WRENNEIRE]

Just back from Dublin Port, T10 to be exact
Some really bad news people
Chris Dyer has had his van seized by customs because of some i not dotted and a really horrible female customs official
No problem with UK customs coming over
As a result he will be returning to the UK in the morning and therefore will not be in a position to attend the show
He hopes to return in December so if anyone was looking for anything in particular talk to me over the weekend and I will pass on your requirements
I may have a few of his  bits at the show but nothing like we hoped to have
God bless Brexit

[Horsetan]

7 hours ago, WRENNEIRE said:

..... a really horrible female customs official....

Sounds like she was having a bad day.

Wonder if Chris might have escaped attention if he'd come in via the North and crossed the border by road.......

Edited October 28, 2022 by Horsetan

[Georgeconna]

12 minutes ago, Horsetan said:

Sounds like she was having a bad day.

Wonder if Chris might have escaped attention if he'd come in via the North and crossed the border by road.......

Kinda Called Smuggling that would be.

[murphaph]

Ah that's a real shame. Chris is exactly the type of trader whose life was made so easy by being in the single market and customs union. A van load of mixed new and used stock is going to be difficult to manage paperwork wise. Even if you could be sure everything was properly accounted for, the time required to do so is time you're not being paid for. 

[flange lubricator]

That is unfortunate news, it's unfair to blame the customs official as someone who works in the business what one usually finds is someone somewhere has got something wrong a description a code etc as customs have said they have a system and people need to work too that system, instead of blaming the official perhaps they should aim their ire at the geniuses who thought leaving the customs union and single market was a good idea in a bid to improve trade .

Edited October 28, 2022 by flange lubricator

[DJ Dangerous]

Sounds like the error was very small. Chris deals with new and used, but also with re-paints - and the re-paints themselves come under two categories - his re-paints for sale, plus jobs that have been sent to him by clients for re-painting. Not saying that a re-paint was the problem, just that there must be so many very small distinctions, almost impossible to tell apart, that it must be difficult to cross every "t" and dot every "i" correctly at times since BrExit. Sad that he won't be at the show.

[Warbonnet]

Hi everyone,

Absolutely dreadful news as I was looking forward to catching up with Chris on a personal level too. If anyone is looking for some British outline goodies we will have some Accurascale items for sale over the weekend along with our IRM fare.

Cheers!

Fran 

[Blaine]

2 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said:

Sounds like the error was very small. Chris deals with new and used, but also with re-paints - and the re-paints themselves come under two categories - his re-paints for sale, plus jobs that have been sent to him by clients for re-painting. Not saying that a re-paint was the problem, just that there must be so many very small distinctions, almost impossible to tell apart, that it must be difficult to cross every "t" and dot every "i" correctly at times since BrExit. Sad that he won't be at the show.

No need to speculate, damage is done. He had invested quite a lot of money for this weekend too - and nothing to do with toy trains either. All paperwork

[connollystn]

Very annoying news, he will be a big loss to the exhibition. Always has a great selection of stuff. We're paying the price for the people who put the cross in the wrong box. 'Welcome to the Brexit sir!'

[Noel]

12 hours ago, WRENNEIRE said:

Just back from Dublin Port, T10 to be exact
Some really bad news people
Chris Dyer has had his van seized by customs because of some i not dotted and a really horrible female customs official
No problem with UK customs coming over
As a result he will be returning to the UK in the morning and therefore will not be in a position to attend the show
He hopes to return in December so if anyone was looking for anything in particular talk to me over the weekend and I will pass on your requirements
I may have a few of his  bits at the show but nothing like we hoped to have
God bless Brexit

Sorry to hear. It's not the poor customs lady's fault that brexit happened the way it did, she's just an employee following the law and the rules of the post brexit era. I'm sure Chris will figure out what paperwork is needed in future. It is a mess losing the freedom of seamless movement of goods and services between the UK and EU. I haven't bought anything from the likes of Peters Spares, Rail Match, Dapol,  nor Rails for 2 years, switched to German retailers, only Hattons because they are set up for DDP so their parcels arrive here with no customs issues nor delays. Another brexit dividend for the hobby  Not long back from brexitistan myself.

[Horsetan]

13 hours ago, Georgeconna said:

Kinda Called Smuggling that would be.

This is Ireland. Smuggling was quite an industry and sure people haven't forgotten the old *kof*"skills"*kof*

[Westcorkrailway]

12 minutes ago, Horsetan said:

This is Ireland. Smuggling was quite an industry and sure people haven't forgotten the old *kof*"skills"*kof*

I was talking to a fella who would often come home from the UK via Northern Ireland and drove the backroad out as far as Dromod and enniskillen to get down to cork undisturbed back in the days when that skill was *kof* practiced by many *kof*

[jhb171achill]

Ouch! Me wallet is sore today!

[Westcorkrailway]

I must say it was comical seeing lads go to the show, buy the discounted wagons and leave. I arrived at 11 and multiple people had already stocked themselves with wagons and left….at 11 on the dot! 
 

 

[Galteemore]

18 hours ago, Horsetan said:

This is Ireland. Smuggling was quite an industry and sure people haven't forgotten the old *kof*"skills"*kof*

Luck was required as well as skill. On one occasion c 1950 the crew of an SLNC train were prevailed upon to hide a bale of suiting fabric (worth 4 figures in 2022 prices) in the coal bunker before leaving Enniskillen at 7:20 pm. They were spotted doing so, and on arrival at Glenfarne the duly informed Eire customs men walked briskly past the passengers in coach 9 and headed straight for the loco. The crew quickly delved into the bunker and consigned the bale into the firebox. The reaction of the fabric’s owner is not recorded. 

Edited October 29, 2022 by Galteemore

[The Derry Road]

Hi all, seems to had been a good exhibition, is anyone posting any pictures or videos of layouts etc?

Thanks in anticipation TDR

[Horsetan]

2 hours ago, Westcorkrailway said:

I must say it was comical seeing lads go to the show, buy the discounted wagons and leave. I arrived at 11 and multiple people had already stocked themselves with wagons and left….at 11 on the dot! 
 

They were only there for one thing, and it wasn't the show. Now watch eBay to see the wagons reappear at four to six times the show price.

[Nick]

25 minutes ago, The Derry Road said:

Hi all, seems to had been a good exhibition, is anyone posting any pictures or videos of layouts etc?

Thanks in anticipation TDR

Working on that as we speak, the quality is processing, it will be in 4k later. 
 

 

Edited October 29, 2022 by Nick

[Westcorkrailway]

3 minutes ago, Horsetan said:

They were only there for one thing, and it wasn't the show. Now watch eBay to see the wagons reappear at four to six times the show price.

Somone made a great point that if you had the origional box, put them in that box and pass them off as the origionals ffs

[The Derry Road]

16 minutes ago, Nick said:

Working on that as we speak, the quality is processing, it will be in 4k later. 
 

 

Nick thank you for showing, nice variety of layouts and stands TDR

[murphaph]

Thanks a lot Nick. Much appreciated.

[Nick]

8 minutes ago, The Derry Road said:

Nick thank you for showing, nice variety of layouts and stands TDR

 

1 minute ago, murphaph said:

Thanks a lot Nick. Much appreciated.

No problem! A video is good and all, if you haven't visited yet, it's always better in person and I'd certainly recommend a visit over this bank holiday weekend.

[murphaph]

14 minutes ago, Nick said:

 

No problem! A video is good and all, if you haven't visited yet, it's always better in person and I'd certainly recommend a visit over this bank holiday weekend.

I did check the price of flights but couldn't justify it