Irm wagons

[DJ Dangerous]

12 minutes ago, MOGUL said:

Can you drop us a line on support, and I can sort that for you..

You’ve just opened the floodgates to Hell!

[MOGUL]

55 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

You’ve just opened the floodgates to Hell!

Not really, that was a one off that slipped out of the warehouse and I know why it happened.
We are working on the VAT situation in the background and will only be shipping orders once we are happy that people won’t be getting VAT requests. Should be all in place in the next few days and then the floodgates from the warehouse will really open

[leslie10646]

I promised a completely Bulleid train.

First the fake one with the re-gauged "Leader".

Lovely wagons, by the way, guys. Run very freely - I found that my supposedly level layout had a slight gradient! Congratulations!

 

Or with a loco which Oliver Bulleid ordered for use in Ireland. I don't have a steel-sided CIE brake, sorry. This one's a kit masterfully built by young Nelson.

 

 

 

 

[PaulM1974]

17 hours ago, fergalm1 said:

I just got a VAT invoice from DPD this morning requesting payment before they'll release my wagons (on which I've already paid VAT). Someone has screwed up.

 

Same here, I’ll give support a shout….

[Jims]

8 hours ago, PaulM1974 said:

Same here, I’ll give support a shout….

How much were dpd asking for

[PaulM1974]

On 20/2/2025 at 2:55 PM, Jims said:

How much were dpd asking for

€170.64!! Payment due within 5 days of receiving the mail so that's Monday.... Update - quick email to Accurascale / IRM and all sorted within minutes!

Edited 15 hours ago by PaulM1974

[Mol_PMB]

Ouch! A bit of price gouging:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/156719853958

I'm hoping there are a few grain vans left over for me to pick up at a more sensible price.

[StevieB]

4 hours ago, Mol_PMB said:

Ouch! A bit of price gouging:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/156719853958

I'm hoping there are a few grain vans left over for me to pick up at a more sensible price.

Totally agree with you.

Stephen

[DJ Dangerous]

5 hours ago, Mol_PMB said:

Ouch! A bit of price gouging:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/156719853958

I'm hoping there are a few grain vans left over for me to pick up at a more sensible price.

 

Might not be price-gouging if they paid:

 

5 hours ago, PaulM1974 said:

€170.64

 

...extra.

Has happened to me several times, not necessarily IRM stuff, just with Customs in general.

 

[Mol_PMB]

I suppose we also need to factor in the recent ebay policy change that adds a buyer’s fee to the price. 

[Patrick Davey]

My two packs of H vans have arrived - unfortunately I won't get to enjoy them until the weekend due to a work trip.

Just been browsing the IRM wagon section on the Accurascale website - looks like every single wagon across all the products has sold out?  Including all the Bulleid opens?

Also - I understand about streamlining etc but does anyone else miss the dedicated IRM website...... 

Great work IRM, yet again!

[StevieB]

The ebay price is some 60% greater than the IRM price, say no more.

Stephen  

[Mayner]

44 minutes ago, StevieB said:

The ebay price is some 60% greater than the IRM price, say no more.

Stephen  

Say no more: there is no one forcing anyone to pay an inflated price. 

Just wait for the wagons to show up on the second hand market, swapmeets or deceased estate sales.

As an old work mate used to say there was no barbed wire on the door forcing a guy to spend all his wages in the pub.

 

[Mol_PMB]

I'm very pleased to say that both my packs have arrived safely this morning and I can show a Bulleid train on my photo plank. 

Thank you, IRM!

I now have 4 packs of IRM Bulleid wagons awaiting regauging, modification and weathering - I can foresee a production line and might get started this weekend while I wait for the E class chassis etch.

The fitted brake gear is exquisite but is going to be harder to regauge than the hand-braked version - a nice challenge.

I might even do a green one with extended buffers?

https://irishrailwaymodeller.com/topic/17713-the-green-h-vans/

 

[WRENNEIRE]

Any chance you can price the IRM stock in Euro?
All seems to be priced in Stg

[skinner75]

18 minutes ago, WRENNEIRE said:

Any chance you can price the IRM stock in Euro?
All seems to be priced in Stg

Everything I checked on Accurascale site is showing in Euros for me

[DJ Dangerous]

21 minutes ago, WRENNEIRE said:

Any chance you can price the IRM stock in Euro?
All seems to be priced in Stg

Currency box hidden away way down the bottom. Should be top right corner or top left corner, ideally, but at least it’s there.

 

 

[skinner75]

Absolutely! I had a look in my profile, then top corners of the site - wouldn't have thought of looking at the bottom of the page though

[Mol_PMB]

As usual, the first thing to do with any new toy is to take it apart...

Here are some learning points for the rest of you wanting to take these apart (oh, only me? OK...)

I thought that to separate the body and the chassis I would need to undo the screws and then they would fall apart (like the corrugated wagons). This is not the case with the vans.

There are several bits of the brake gear that are stuck to the metal floor unit rather than the skeletal underframe, so that undoing the screws does not free the frame from the floor. They are the vacuum cylinder, the brake gear crank near the middle, the brake safety loops and the vee hangers.

These can be removed with a bit of care (fine screwdrivers, cocktail sticks, fine pliers etc), though I bent some of the brake safety loops in the process. Some of these seem to be fitted one end into the floor and the other end into the frame.

Having separated the floor I then found that the body was a simple clip fit onto the floor, and perhaps I need not have separated the floor and the frame after all. Although the brake safety loops have to come off anyway to release the brake shoe assemblies and the wheels for re-gauging.

The clips at the bottom of the body are under the roundel and the 'vac brake' wording.

Anyway, having got the body off I discovered that the sides and roof are moulded in one piece. I'd been hoping they were separate bits to simplify modification and repainting, but never mind.

Hopefully this is helpful to someone even if as an example of what not to do.

 

[Mol_PMB]

I’d be interested to hear others’ thoughts on the roof finish. I haven’t quite decided - pros and cons. 

[Colin R]

On 17/2/2025 at 7:30 AM, Mayner said:

More a larger box than needed for the other much smaller species of grasshopper, apart from the minor technicality of exporting a legally protected species, ensuring it survived the trip and made it through bio-security on arrival. Or maybe I am just talking through my hat as I get older

My 15 year old is currently agonising about bringing one of our cats "James" home from the States (16 hrs flights-6 months quarantine) when the other half returns later this year, chances of someone adapting James are slim, not sure he would remember us after the flights and quarantine, or integrate him with our other cats, but difficult to leave a good mouser behind. 

Going more and more off topic by the moment, though should have some IRM/Accuracraft Grain Wagons on the way in the not too distant future.

give him  a few weeks to work out what is what and he will be ok in his new home, just keep him in if you can for a week or so, so that he gets his scent all over the place so his knows where home is

Sorry running a bit late with this one but now that I've got my Vans, I was wondering did they do a cattle wagon in the same series?

Colin