IRM Model Buses - What Are The Odds?

[DJ Dangerous]

On 2/10/2020 at 2:11 AM, DiveController said:

ok, this is from the last century but maybe more to your liking then 

ex-Platin c. 1999

 

Yes, that's the stuff!!!

[murphaph]

A model of that someday and I'd be all over it.

[DJ Dangerous]

1 hour ago, murphaph said:

A model of that someday and I'd be all over it.

The problem is that if they only do a run of 250, I'll buy them all before you get a chance.

[DJ Dangerous]

And hopefully we'll see these one day, too!

 

Six Irish liveries to choose from (City Imp, blue and cream, blue and yellow, Today FM, Olympics, McGonagles of Donegal) plus the Chester and McColl exports, plus the other UK liveries.

[mphoey]

5 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said:

And hopefully we'll see these one day, too!

 

Six Irish liveries to choose from (City Imp, blue and cream, blue and yellow, Today FM, Olympics, McGonagles of Donegal) plus the Chester and McColl exports, plus the other UK liveries.

dont forget the blue and yellow with the modern logo as well

 

[DJ Dangerous]

6 minutes ago, mphoey said:

dont forget the blue and yellow with the modern logo as well

 

So there are two different blue and yellows?

[mphoey]

15 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said:

So there are two different blue and yellows?

yes the blue yellow colour was the same but you had the old white logo and then the new yellow black log

 

[DJ Dangerous]

17 minutes ago, mphoey said:

yes the blue yellow colour was the same but you had the old white logo and then the new yellow black log

 

Even more mileage from the same tooling so!

[mphoey]

On 11/10/2020 at 10:27 PM, DJ Dangerous said:

 

Yes, that's the stuff!!!

dont forget the roadliner fuel tanker as well

 

[warb]

do you mean these

warb

[DJ Dangerous]

1 minute ago, warb said:

do you mean these

warb

Awesome!

[warb]

Found these photos as well

[johnfromoz]

Apologies if this has been done to death in the past, but am I alone in thinking there must surely be a market for a limited RTR run of any incarnations of the Leyland Leopards used in rural Ireland in the period 1960s to 80s??

i know there have been kits etc, but what with the growth of Irish modelling surely its now or never?

John

 

[DJ Dangerous]

9 minutes ago, johnfromoz said:

Apologies if this has been done to death in the past, but am I alone in thinking there must surely be a market for a limited RTR run of any incarnations of the Leyland Leopards used in rural Ireland in the period 1960s to 80s??

i know there have been kits etc, but what with the growth of Irish modelling surely its now or never?

John

 

I think that Corgi and EFE have done them RTR.

[johnfromoz]

The only one I have ever seen and picked up is the brown and umber leopard/panorama in cie tours livery. I was thinking more of the M series and the many before. Surely no branch line station is complete without them?

[DiveController]

11 hours ago, johnfromoz said:

Apologies if this has been done to death in the past, but am I alone in thinking there must surely be a market for a limited RTR run of any incarnations of the Leyland Leopards used in rural Ireland in the period 1960s to 80s??

i know there have been kits etc, but what with the growth of Irish modelling surely its now or never?

John

 

You are not alone

10 hours ago, johnfromoz said:

The only one I have ever seen and picked up is the brown and umber leopard/panorama in cie tours livery. I was thinking more of the M series and the many before. Surely no branch line station is complete without them?

No, they would not be. Also C and E class and atlantean would be very popular

[DJ Dangerous]

3 hours ago, DiveController said:

You are not alone

No, they would not be. Also C and E class and atlantean would be very popular

 

Warbonnet gave a very firm "no" to competing with the Facebook Resin Specialist ranges, so you can scratch an Atlantean off your list!

 

On 15/7/2021 at 2:17 PM, Warbonnet said:

Nope. We don't compete with first class products and the resin Van Hool is certainly that. There were a few runs of the KD Bombardiers and the Standard D Atlanteans from the same stable, so imagine it will be the same for the Van Hools. 

 

[jhb171achill]

Possible easy re-livery job.

Now, I preface this by saying that I know very little about buses at all, but I believe this one is a standard type, as its a 1950s bought model, now in storage in Malahide Castle. It's not Fry's - it was re-liveried for the castle layout in the 1990s, in CIE livery, though it's an old model - presumably owned by someone else. 

However, it is worth mentioning as yokes like this were commonplace in rural areas in the 1950s. My knowledge of buses does not extend to confirming whether this is an EXACT type used here, or one which is just very like one that did - nor can i say how common they were.

In any event, one at least was based in Galway, it seems, as late as about 1961.

I took pics of this one this afternoon as I was poking about in the castle looking for things, bits'n'bobs, and stuff. The CIE green is authentic for steam locos, buses, road lorries, station paintwork, and passenger coaches which were painted between 1945 and 1955.

Would it be worth IRM doing a run of a 00 scale equivalent of these? This one is 7mm scale, or as close to that as needs be.

 

Edited March 3, 2022 by jhb171achill

[Galteemore]

Bedford OB. IRM do have form here….https://irishrailwaymodels.com/en-us/collections/accessories/products/bedford-owb-belfast

Edited March 3, 2022 by Galteemore

[jhb171achill]

Ah! Well, there we go - we might live in hope?

 

[DJ Dangerous]

23 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

Ah! Well, there we go - we might live in hope?

 

Almost sure that I read somewhere here on the forum that the Irish variant had the same chassis but a different body. Not 100% sure on that.

[Tarabuses]

Yes, the CIE Bedford OBs had a different body.

 

Edited March 6, 2022 by Tarabuses

[jhb171achill]

That's one of the Malahide Castle (as opposed to Cyril Fry's) models from the 1990s Malahide Castle layout. If anyone is interested I will post pics of others next time I'm in the storage place.

[DJ Dangerous]

I'm guessing that IRM will tease us for as long as possible before a monstrous climax of 1990's two-tone green Dublin Bus, the Holy Grail of model buses.

So what else is coming in the Olympian range before then?

A yellow and blue pair will be a no-brainer, as will a blue and cream pair, but might the rare ones also appear?

Like the Heinz and Chef pair?

Or the learner bus and the tree-cutter?

Or a Swatch and Esso pair?

Or the black and white Wedding Bus and the "It Could Be You" bus?

How about a Bartons and Gormanston pair?

Or a Nite Link and Premier Inn pair?

That's about three years worth of bus foreplay before the big one.

[DJ Dangerous]

Hmmmmmmm.....

Feels like a while since a bus announcement...

There must be one on the way for filling the Christmas stockings?

[jhb171achill]

Dear Santa

I have been very good since last year……………………………… …………………………..

 

 

[DJ Dangerous]

2 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

Dear Santa

I have been very good since last year……………………………… …………………………..

 

 

He knows when you're lying, duh.

[Broithe]

58 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

Hmmmmmmm.....

Feels like a while since a bus announcement...

There must be one on the way for filling the Christmas stockings?

You wait ages, then three turn up in a row.          

[DJ Dangerous]

1 minute ago, Broithe said:

You wait ages, then three turn up in a row.          

Are you hinting that it'll be three different destinations on the next batch???

[Broithe]

12 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

Are you hinting that it'll be three different destinations on the next batch???

Maybe they'll be variable, via a DCC chip?

The blinds leading the blinds...

[DJ Dangerous]

10 minutes ago, Broithe said:

Maybe they'll be variable, via a DCC chip?

The blinds leading the blinds...

For the extra cost of the DCC chip, it would also need to emit Co2 or something to make you nauseaous, for that authentic bus-home-from-town nostalgia trip.

I'll take a two-tone green trio any day!

[Niles]

2 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

For the extra cost of the DCC chip, it would also need to emit Co2 or something to make you nauseaous, for that authentic bus-home-from-town nostalgia trip.

I'll take a two-tone green trio any day!

and sounds from the back 'any smokes bud?'.

[DJ Dangerous]

Just now, Niles said:

and sounds from the back 'any smokes bud?'.

Yeah, that little cloud of cigarette smoke around the back seats, forgot about that! That DCC chip will have a lot of work to do.

[Niles]

19 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

Yeah, that little cloud of cigarette smoke around the back seats, forgot about that! That DCC chip will have a lot of work to do.

In my RPSI days I recall having to excort a few northern colleagues down from Heuston to Inchicore. One of my Dublin teammates suggested 'take them down on the 79, it will be a cultural experience for them'.

[DJ Dangerous]

On 30/8/2020 at 3:37 PM, Ironroad said:

There are some models of Irish buses available at present, examples;

http://briancollinsenterprises.ie/product/brian-collins-enterprises-bus-eireann-expressway-model/

https://www.hattons.co.uk/108950/efe_15718_plaxton_panorama_c_i_e_coach_tours_/stockdetail.aspx

 

 

A friend sent me this photo of his Panorama. Just thought that it was nice so I'd share it here.