JasonB Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 44 minutes ago, Rob said: In fairness, l think while being fuzzier than C Rail obvs, they look fine on a layout and, despite the quality concerns, l like them!!! Agree, Rob. No way near the quality of C-Rail, but passable for stacking etc, on a layout. 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Dangerous Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 Agreed, the fuzziness is not the end of the world, and they'll be grand on a moving train or practically anywhere that they're not the focal point. Also, they will provide a bit of variety when @Arran does eventually venture into the 45' market, as I doubt that he'll run duplicates of another recent container model at first. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popeye Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 10 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said: Fuzzy Cobelfrets finally arrived. Been in the post about four months, I think. Grey locking bars instead of blue, which is handy. Will get gluing tonight. Few "Mode Rail Stuff" HO pallets of banded concrete blocks (HO-540MRST) arrived, too. I don't know how you can wait 4 months, I find a week bad enough. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Dangerous Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 3 minutes ago, popeye said: I don't know how you can wait 4 months, I find a week bad enough. I think that the slowest so far was about ten months. I'm like the Internet Explorer of browsers: 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonB Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 17 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said: Agreed, the fuzziness is not the end of the world, and they'll be grand on a moving train or practically anywhere that they're not the focal point. Although, I see your point, Dave. It is slightly annoying. You'd expect better nowadays. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 18 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said: I think that the slowest so far was about ten months. I'm like the Internet Explorer of browsers: Could you not "paquete motel" them to the mainland and take a speedboat over once a week? Id have my eyes long scratched out after ten months. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Dangerous Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 12 minutes ago, Sean said: Could you not "paquete motel" them to the mainland and take a speedboat over once a week? Id have my eyes long scratched out after ten months. For all intents and purposes, Spain is just as far from Las Canarias as Ireland is - a couple of days by boat to either... So one boat trip per week would mean living at sea, basically! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 Ah ya just need one of these! im guessing theres no chape ryanair flights out to the peninsula? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Dangerous Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 41 minutes ago, Sean said: Ah ya just need one of these! im guessing theres no chape ryanair flights out to the peninsula? On Canarian wages??? I have one of them docked down in Los Santos alright, but that doesn't do much good here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 get michael to stick it into a container and it can be with you in a mere 10 months 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Branchline121 Posted April 2, 2023 Share Posted April 2, 2023 22 hours ago, Sean said: get michael to stick it into a container and it can be with you in a mere 10 months Just don’t let his son try selling it, or you’ll get Franklin involved in some mess! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arran Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 https://www.multimodal.org.uk/article/irish-rail-first-new-multimodal-freight-yard-in-five-decades Looks like you may get even more container train soon 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Dangerous Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 And to celebrate, C-Rail are releasing 45' Containers and IRM are releasing 47' Flats? What are the container wagons that they mention currently being overhauled? The pockets? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Dangerous Posted April 7, 2023 Share Posted April 7, 2023 Another of last year's parcels has just arrived, with more Dapol containers. CMA CGM / Hapag Lloyd twinpacks. I had bought them because they were so cheap, something like £6 per container, and had planned using them as donors for something else. However, the print on these is a million times better than the recent Dapol ONEs, Mitsuis, yellow Ferrymasters and Samskips. I'm well impressed, as I was expecting pure muck. You can still make out places where the different layers don't line up properly, a bit of white sticking out from under the black or whatever, but they don't have that headache-inducing fuzziness that Dapol are now famous for. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Dangerous Posted April 7, 2023 Share Posted April 7, 2023 Second-hand Hornby ONE pack in that same parcel. With Hornby, you get C-Rail print quality plus Dapol opening doors, so the best of both worlds there, but the locking bars are body coloured, which means that painting / weathering is required. Overall, C-Rail are still clear winners in the container contests. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabhal Luimnigh Posted April 7, 2023 Share Posted April 7, 2023 Nice little haul there Dave 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Dangerous Posted April 7, 2023 Share Posted April 7, 2023 6 minutes ago, Gabhal Luimnigh said: Nice little haul there Dave Yup, but I have a shedload of locking bars to cut off sprues today and glue in place! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabhal Luimnigh Posted April 7, 2023 Share Posted April 7, 2023 Just now, DJ Dangerous said: Yup, but I have a shedload of locking bars to cut off sprues today and glue in place! But surely that's part of the fun, anyway you've nothing else to do with your day! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Dangerous Posted April 7, 2023 Share Posted April 7, 2023 31 minutes ago, Gabhal Luimnigh said: But surely that's part of the fun, anyway you've nothing else to do with your day! Maybe up there in the land of cold, wind and rain! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonB Posted April 7, 2023 Share Posted April 7, 2023 6 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said: Yup, but I have a shedload of locking bars to cut off sprues today and glue in place! CD on in the background. Bottle of something cold. Sorted. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonB Posted April 7, 2023 Share Posted April 7, 2023 9 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said: Second-hand Hornby ONE pack in that same parcel. With Hornby, you get C-Rail print quality plus Dapol opening doors, so the best of both worlds there. I've bought a few of the Hornby double packs recently, and agree, they are very good models. As you've said, the print is definitely up there with C-Rail, and containers themselves, have some really nice detail. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Dangerous Posted April 7, 2023 Share Posted April 7, 2023 (edited) 3 hours ago, JasonB said: CD on in the background. Bottle of something cold. Sorted. LA Style ooh na na, that's the stuff! Have my work cut out for me whenever I do sit down to it... Edited April 7, 2023 by DJ Dangerous 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonB Posted April 8, 2023 Share Posted April 8, 2023 9 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said: Have my work cut out for me whenever I do sit down to it... Plenty of snipping, filing, and gluing to be done there. That should keep you out of trouble for a couple of hours 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Dangerous Posted April 8, 2023 Share Posted April 8, 2023 37 minutes ago, JasonB said: Plenty of snipping, filing, and gluing to be done there. That should keep you out of trouble for a couple of hours The problem is... What happens AFTER a few hours with the glue??? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonB Posted April 8, 2023 Share Posted April 8, 2023 9 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said: The problem is... What happens AFTER a few hours with the glue??? I said snipping. Not sniffing. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Dangerous Posted April 8, 2023 Share Posted April 8, 2023 Just now, JasonB said: I said snipping. Not sniffing. Agree to disagree! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Dangerous Posted April 8, 2023 Share Posted April 8, 2023 Those Bachmann Eucons are a pig. I gave up on them after half an hour, with only one out of eight locking bars in place. I think that the pins which (should) slot into the holes in the container doors need to be filed down or something. Did six of the Dapols and two truck cabs. Bachmanns can wait for another day, that was not a productive session! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popeye Posted April 8, 2023 Share Posted April 8, 2023 Try one in without glue first and see what it's like, sometimes you need to make the holes a little bigger. It's a fiddly job that you can't rush. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Dangerous Posted April 8, 2023 Share Posted April 8, 2023 53 minutes ago, popeye said: Try one in without glue first and see what it's like, sometimes you need to make the holes a little bigger. It's a fiddly job that you can't rush. I didn't bother with glue for the Eucons. The pins are so long that they push-fit very snugly. I have two Eucons from a few years ago and remember the fiddliness. Will whip out the file for the pins tomorrow, or whenever. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Dangerous Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 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. 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOGUL Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 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! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Dangerous Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 3 minutes ago, MOGUL said: I'd say your vision is going fuzzy after doing all of those! The solvents or the containers? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOGUL Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 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! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Dangerous Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 4 minutes ago, MOGUL said: I was assuming you had adequate ventilation, if not then its a double whammy! Adequate whaaaaaaaat? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arran Posted May 5, 2023 Share Posted May 5, 2023 HI All The latest tooling project is getting closer to being ready for production. Decorated samples at the next stage then it will be all go. Regards Arran 1 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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