LIMA Murphy Models

[WRENNEIRE]

 

No rest for the wicked

 

 

 

 

 

[WRENNEIRE]

I was out this afternoon prowling
Was shown this Mk 2 d Genny 
What do you think?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bit of undercoat showing
Interesting for the collector

[flange lubricator]

Interesting for the collector is one way of putting it , I wonder will they be like some rare postage stamp with a flaw in them and worth thousands some day ? Here’s one of mine . 

[Railer]

1 hour ago, WRENNEIRE said:

I was out this afternoon prowling
Was shown this Mk 2 d Genny 
What do you think?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bit of undercoat showing
Interesting for the collector

I've an IE standard 5210 that went exactly like that after a few months in the sun. It happened on the sun facing side and end only.

[WRENNEIRE]

Just for the record men.

 

Pack 1075 A

 

 

 

30006 on top, 30167 underneath

 

 

Opposite side

 

 

1076 B

 

 

 

 

 

30114 on top, 30202 underneath

 

 

 

Opposite side

 

 

1077 C

 

 

 

 

30118 on top, 30109 underneath

 

 

 

Opposite Side:

 

 

 

 

1078 D

 

 

 

 

 

30072 on top, 30139 underneath.

 

 

 

Opposite side:

 

 

 

And all boxes come with instructions and spare parts

 

 

 

[WRENNEIRE]

Picked this up this afternoon, any thoughts?
Hornby Eurostar non powered unit as a donor

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another donor could be the Hornby Blue Rapier

 

Edited July 4, 2020 by WRENNEIRE

[DiveController]

It look like a Eurostar, the profile  and nose is obviously wrong, some absent windows/doors but in the grand scheme of things it would work fine with some matching coaches to finish a rake. Bit modern for me, no real interest in it but yeah

Edited July 8, 2020 by DiveController

[Noel]

Paint job is superb

 

[WRENNEIRE]

Spoils, 4 Packs, ABCD

Pack A IRM 1070A

 

 

 

 

#30128 & 30173.

 

 

 

IRM 1071B

 

#30121 & 30130

 

 

 

IRM 1072C

 

#30134 & 30180

 

 

 

IRM 1073 D

 

 

#30106 & 30131

 

 

 

 

[WRENNEIRE]

The 3 Accessory Packs

 

IRM 1090KEG

The 5 cages are numbered differently to the ones on the 42' flats
9317, 9452, 9548, 9788 & 9836

 

 

IRM 1091CIE20

The 2 Containers are numbered differently to the ones on the 42' flats

22021 & 22024

 

IRM 1092FERT

 

 

 

 

[WRENNEIRE]

Killing some time on a wet August afternoon and I found this letter from the late Kevin Hutchinson
He traded as Abbey Models and was one of the first dealers to supply MM/Lima products
Kevin used to attend the Clontarf shows back in the day with his lovely wife Catherine
Anyway have a look at some of the products that were being advertised at the time, March 2001
And have a look at the prices!

L105501 became L105500X5, River Tolka set
L105502 never made it out of Italy, unfortunately
L149437 made it out, the River Bandon set
L149438 No show.
L149439 Escaped as L305340(#7403) This number was used on the original Galway set of coaches.
L149440 Didn't make it out. Pity a 2 pack of NIR Mk2's including a dining car
L204790 The class leader, #201 River Shannon
L205018 #217 River Flesk
L205019 #206 River Liffey
L205021 #208 River Lagan
L205022 #208 NIR Blue
L205023 #209 NIR Blue
 

[connollystn]

That was such a momentous occasion. A time that changed Irish Railway Modelling forever (in a positive way).

[WRENNEIRE]

Just keeping everything on this thread
The Weedsprays:
Put the coach in for the craic.

[Keitheg6]

Any coaches on the go dave ?? 

[WRENNEIRE]

Weedspray man?
Hens teeth

[WRENNEIRE]

So the wait is finally over

B 121 & B135 landed safely in D5 this afternoon, living close to the Airport has its advantages

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

B121

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

B135

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comparison of Box sizes

 

 

 

[mphoey]

look great the flying snail on the box looks like an afterthought maybe?

 

[WRENNEIRE]

There's a story behind it Martin!

[RedRich]

Wow it's amazing. This thread is so important to Irish railway modelling and deserves to have the first pics of the models in it.

Rich 

[WRENNEIRE]

Trouble at Chateau Foxfield Troops!
Last night over my beans on toast Granny Bracken announced that she would be hanging up her broom next year and to this effect she would like one of her bedrooms back for herself, the cheek of her!
To this effect I will be reducing my pile over the next few months. Most of the pieces I will be offloading are mint, most have never been unboxed and as can be seen some are still in the box that they were delivered to me in.

First things to go will be items that there are 3 of, so the early Lima sets some 141's and some 201's
I would suggest that these are more suitable for collectors than runners but if there is any interest from any collectors I would like to ee them facilitated first
Prices will be on the high side, and I will have them shortly
Drop me a PM if you are interested in anything

PS Open to serious offers on the Lima storage box's!!!

 

 

 

 

 

[Noel]

On 9/6/2020 at 1:07 AM, WRENNEIRE said:

Put the coach in for the craic.

Wow.  Was that a Richie special Dave?  Looks very tasty. It's certainly not the SF one.

[WRENNEIRE]

Yep, back in the day

[WRENNEIRE]

Hot off the press this morning

IRM 1050-UN
CIE/Irish Rail bogie flats

 

 

 

 

30142

 

 

 

 

 

30161

 

 

 

 

 

30169

 

 

 

 

[Robert Shrives]

Good to see some yellow pegs - I guess in the bits bag. Good use of the three vehicle box and packaging - now need to work out what else fits...  3 bogie cement perhaps? 

 

[WRENNEIRE]

Picked up these older LIMA Irish bits over the weekend
The yellow labelled items are of particular interest to me
Extra coaches and loco for the Lima Technology L106300X2 set (Page 10 of this thread)
Also the orange coloured boxes do not have the later 30xxxx prefix of the box below them

 

And then there was this, no makers name, its HO and looks like EFSI 

 

[WRENNEIRE]

Solved a long outstanding problem this evening 
Have to thin out the collection as I am running out of shelf space so I went through some of my Lima sets
149801 is a strange set, a Mk 2 (5201), a Mk 3 (7115) and a Mk 3 Restaurant (7411)
So I check one of the other sets and I find that it has a Mk 2 & 2 Mk 3's, no Restaurant
However when I checked the Mk 3's I found that one was numbered 7411 the same as the restaurant
I had come across a couple of these Mk 3's unboxed over the years and now I know where they came from, a factory error in Italy all those years ago.

 

 

 

 

[WRENNEIRE]

Another quandary solved due to Covidlockdown
LIMA 305306 / 305307 Mk 2d coach
Most OO Gauge LIMA boxes carry a Suffix W, which indicates they have OO Gauge bogies and couplings, not that the item itself is actually OO gauge
Looking at the above boxed coach I see that it has an orange roof
LIMA 305306W  Coach
This coach has a Black roof
305307W, this coach is buried in one of the display cabinets and will take a small army to find!

Problem solved!

 

 

[Robert Shrives]

Viz the MK 3/ 2 sets I have the same and noted the poly tray was hand cut to take the MK3 but yours have the differing trays, When I can get to them next will have to check vehicle nos. As an aside the  Hornby HST buffet is a 4 window TRSB which is much nearer the real CIE vehicle. 

Robert    

[WRENNEIRE]

Poly trays being altered for various sets is fairly common in the Lima set range
Looks like they used anything close when they ran out of the proper ones

[Wexford70]

On 30/9/2020 at 1:09 AM, WRENNEIRE said:

Solved a long outstanding problem this evening 
Have to thin out the collection as I am running out of shelf space so I went through some of my Lima sets
149801 is a strange set, a Mk 2 (5201), a Mk 3 (7115) and a Mk 3 Restaurant (7411)
So I check one of the other sets and I find that it has a Mk 2 & 2 Mk 3's, no Restaurant
However when I checked the Mk 3's I found that one was numbered 7411 the same as the restaurant
I had come across a couple of these Mk 3's unboxed over the years and now I know where they came from, a factory error in Italy all those years ago.

 

 

 

 

Why were different types  of coaches in the same pack? I doubt a factory error.

Edited October 31, 2020 by Wexford70

[WRENNEIRE]

Lima offered this set to MM, he took it thinking it was a set that would have run together, remember at the time he was a retailer, not the font of knowledge he is now!
He got some stick when the set became available and I think that set him on the path to make the current series of finely detailed MM models we see today.

[Niles]

I don't think it's mentioned here, but the 'Irish Freight' set Hornby released in 1999, was there any particular story behind that? Found the box off it the other day and got me thinking. I don't think it was listed in the catalogue from memory, my one came from the Killarney Model Railway shop.

Content wise it was a re-liverying of a UK soft drink themed 'Industrial Freight' set out at the same time.

Edited October 31, 2020 by Niles
add pics

[WRENNEIRE]

Just for the record:

MM 125

 

 

MM 131

 

 

 

MM 127

 

 

 

 

 

MM 130

 

 

 

 

MM 133

 

 

 

 

[WRENNEIRE]

Last shipment:

MM 124 

 

 

 

 

MM129

 

 

 

 

 

MM134

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MM126

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[burnthebox]

On 25/9/2020 at 12:47 PM, WRENNEIRE said:

Picked up these older LIMA Irish bits over the weekend
The yellow labelled items are of particular interest to me
Extra coaches and loco for the Lima Technology L106300X2 set (Page 10 of this thread)
Also the orange coloured boxes do not have the later 30xxxx prefix of the box below them

Only seeing this now, & my interest is because I’ve got two of these, never knew anything about them until now, thanks Dave,

BTB