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[Galteemore]

26 minutes ago, Westcorkrailway said:

https://ebay.us/m/qfUPyB
 

I LIKE A LOT 

 

 

That’s a very good conversion. 

[WRENNEIRE]

Jasus

They were free to members at the time and I sold the remainder at various shows for €15

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334716041371?_skw=cie&itmmeta=01JV2NGXKTQH9HJC4TK342V7ZA&hash=item4deea1789b:g:PMwAAOSwqxJjz7p2&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAAwFkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1f9o%2B4MVrxmZtJEAWUaijFj%2BfzOI42Uqw4efAL9nlE18cmzUAvnG6%2BLC%2FlQR%2FmRMNamCiUVVSngF6jVN5V1Ta7eJQ8PnOHi5SM0IY%2BLkAV6BIUOWUmPWbfuQ2c9nIDWzDjPbA6hOvadgiF5%2B%2Bu5TI8%2BxVq2Ar9y6%2BAcrQXw0ONy9DPUJr1cT%2FDPkzjqtgUgDLn%2BjTF2j%2Bsmhc7jOy4zCdt1xS0jdRk771CZitQ6Px3t%2Bg%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR6zaw9XYZQ

[amdaley]

55 minutes ago, WRENNEIRE said:

Jasus

They were free to members at the time and I sold the remainder at various shows for €15

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334716041371?_skw=cie&itmmeta=01JV2NGXKTQH9HJC4TK342V7ZA&hash=item4deea1789b:g:PMwAAOSwqxJjz7p2&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAAwFkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1f9o%2B4MVrxmZtJEAWUaijFj%2BfzOI42Uqw4efAL9nlE18cmzUAvnG6%2BLC%2FlQR%2FmRMNamCiUVVSngF6jVN5V1Ta7eJQ8PnOHi5SM0IY%2BLkAV6BIUOWUmPWbfuQ2c9nIDWzDjPbA6hOvadgiF5%2B%2Bu5TI8%2BxVq2Ar9y6%2BAcrQXw0ONy9DPUJr1cT%2FDPkzjqtgUgDLn%2BjTF2j%2Bsmhc7jOy4zCdt1xS0jdRk771CZitQ6Px3t%2Bg%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR6zaw9XYZQ

Look at who's selling it 

[commerlad]

On 12/5/2025 at 6:32 PM, amdaley said:

Look at who's selling it 

Yeah, He's obviously missed the 1 between the £ and the 6...................................................

[DJ Dangerous]

On 12/5/2025 at 9:00 AM, Westcorkrailway said:

https://ebay.us/m/qfUPyB
 

I LIKE A LOT 

 

 

Sold for €255 plus postage (plus import fees if a non-UK buyer) in the end.

 

 

[Horsetan]

On 12/5/2025 at 5:36 PM, WRENNEIRE said:

Jasus

They were free to members at the time and I sold the remainder at various shows for €15

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334716041371?_skw=cie&itmmeta=01JV2NGXKTQH9HJC4TK342V7ZA&hash=item4deea1789b:g:PMwAAOSwqxJjz7p2&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAAwFkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1f9o%2B4MVrxmZtJEAWUaijFj%2BfzOI42Uqw4efAL9nlE18cmzUAvnG6%2BLC%2FlQR%2FmRMNamCiUVVSngF6jVN5V1Ta7eJQ8PnOHi5SM0IY%2BLkAV6BIUOWUmPWbfuQ2c9nIDWzDjPbA6hOvadgiF5%2B%2Bu5TI8%2BxVq2Ar9y6%2BAcrQXw0ONy9DPUJr1cT%2FDPkzjqtgUgDLn%2BjTF2j%2Bsmhc7jOy4zCdt1xS0jdRk771CZitQ6Px3t%2Bg%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR6zaw9XYZQ

If you look at the seller's other items, virtually all of it is way overpriced. He's notorious for it.

Seller's name is Greg Diffen - I seem to recall he was born in Australia and emigrated here many many years ago. Australians are famously hard-nosed capitalists - see Macquarie Bank which drained all the money out of Thames Water over the course of seven years' ownership of the utility, and also loaded it with massive debt which has now grown to such a degree that Thames Water is effectively insolvent.

His eBay ID "gostude" is derived from his other hobby which is collecting Studebaker cars - at one point he was a very big noise in the Studebaker Owners Club UK. It is entirely possible that the price gouging on model railway items is to help pay for his Studebaker habit.

This is Mr. Diffen

Edited Friday at 16:25 by Horsetan

[west_clare_wanderer]

Sugar beet wagons...

 

https://ebay.us/m/roiAdg

[jhb171achill]

On 12/5/2025 at 9:27 AM, Galteemore said:

That’s a very good conversion. 

The model is. 

But:

"WARTIME GREY"!!!!????

What a ranting, raving, unholy mess!

First; Ireland was not involved in the war, and even had it been, CIE was not formed until 1945!

Second, the livery is as fantasy-based as a tartan, lime green and pink livery would be for a GNR 4.4.0.

1. The grey is even lighter than wagon grey. GSWR / GSR / CIE loco grey was a very dark grey.

2. Even if it was correct, smokebox should also be grey.

3. Cylinders and wheels would also be grey.

It's described as being an "authentic" model. Rule No. 1, of course, applies to all modellers and layouts; if he wants to paint it up like that, and imagine that CIE existed during either world war, fine - but don't try to pass it off as "authentic" anything!

 

Edited yesterday at 17:56 by jhb171achill

[Galteemore]

18 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

The model is. 

But:

"WARTIME GREY"!!!!????

What a ranting, raving, unholy mess!

First; Ireland was not involved in the war, and even had it been, CIE was not formed until 1945!

Second, the livery is as fantasy-based as a tartan, lime green and pink livery would be for a GNR 4.4.0.

1. The grey is even lighter than wagon grey. GSWR / GSR / CIE loco grey was a very dark grey.

2. Even if it was correct, smokebox should also be grey.

3. Cylinders and wheels would also be grey.

It's described as being an "authentic" model. Rule No. 1, of course, applies to all modellers and layouts; if he wants to paint it up like that, and imagine that CIE existed during either world war, fine - but don't try to pass it off as "authentic" anything!

 

I suspect the ‘wartime grey’ is a reference by the dealer (who has probably bought this in an estate sale and is gamely trying to work out what it is ) to the SECR wartime grey that the orginal Woolwich moguls bore, and which may have been the livery on the model used for this conversion. Looks like a WW1 SECR body stuck on a BR liveried chassis. 

 

Edited yesterday at 18:14 by Galteemore

[minister_for_hardship]

24 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

The model is. 

But:

"WARTIME GREY"!!!!????

"Economic stagnation grey"

[Mol_PMB]

17 minutes ago, minister_for_hardship said:

"Economic stagnation grey"

Is that what adorns most of the 071s?