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Lovely scenes, the people help to give it more life.

IRM H VAN I got a set of IRM H vans and wanted to have a go at weathering them. The upper body was done only with weathering powders and the underframe was done with enamel paint.

That's a nice wagon and looks well. Now take a few days off for Christmas

A work of art Alan, would be a shame to paint it

Perfect modelling.

Just looking at those signal gantries, that would be a scary job going up there.

I am doing some of these just now and I am doing the two versions. The paints I will be using are Humbrol 89 Matt Middle blue and Revell 52 gloss. The curtain sided wagons would be pale blue body and Revell 52 for the curtain. Put the transfers on the curtain which will sit better on the gloss paint. The metal sided wagons will be done with light grey and 89 blue. You can weather them with some light grey and light brown. Seal the transfers with varnish before weathering.

They would be nice to have if someone would print them for you. You would still need underframe, bogies and motor.

Coming on very well.

Very nicely done, perfect. I don't see any mobile phone users.

It is only an artists impression.

Some new wagons weathered and Hunslet 101. Palvans from Enda Byrne (CK Prints) Parkside grey Palvan. Refrigerated Containers on flat wagons. Not numbered or logo like the real thing but with very narrow planks you would need very small numbers. Some new pic's of NIR 101.

There is a few bits of Irish models for sale, but Mark's Models was only there for the Saturday.

Yes they were all very nice, I do like that puffer

Ulster model railway club, The show is on in Belfast this weekend, Sat/Sun. I will be there selling card and lasercut buildings plus some wagons and road vehicles.

Here is a picture of the little cranes used in the shipyard, they seem to have rail wheels so they would need rails.

This is a pic of the underside of the 6 wheel wagon.

Some more models to look at. Class 2700 railcar, been after one of these for years and finally tracked one down all the way from New Zealand. I weathered the underframes and added two hand made dummy Scharfenberg couplings. Murphy's coal wagons and flat wagons weathered. Irish Shell and BP was repainted and transfers from SSM. 6 wheel wagons were hand made as were the sleepers and weathered.

Somebody liked BELL containers. I think that covers everything.

2 for sale on ebay should do the job. Lit Print Shop £8.99. Peco LK-56

Looks similar to the old Hornby one with those containers on it. This one is an inner flat so no buffers or normal couplings. Good price with 3 containers £58.50.

I find the site is confusing with pricing, it sometime shows price with VAT and then no VAT. I just ordered some H vans and had to pre order but it then gives the option to pay but won't take the payment. So I don't know if I have ordered them or not. It should say that payment will be taken at a later date. And it is not in my orders either.