Georgeconna

Personally I find it a Shame to see the trees being cut down. I much prefer to see them in situ, all you have to do is walk up or down the road to see the view. I am not sure the Stub remains enhance the area.

Yay a Dublin yoke!. Pressures off thankfully. Good luck with it though.

I must admit this is one of the nicest layouts Irish wise out there. Captures the feel of the countryside excellently.

Managed to kick this into gear over the past 2 weeks, P38 car filler used around the Bulwarks and sanded smooth, the Deck drainage holes and the prop shaft hole drilled and filed out, the Skeg and rudder are put on and fill used to blend the whole lot in and again sanded along with the white metal rope and Anchor eyes. Now waiting for a motor and universal coupling to arrive in the post and I can set the prop shaft in for good.

2 years at this and still not a whole lot to show for it, but spose I'll just tip away, JS models came out with e Stone Warehouse and a suggestion on RMWEB to suggest a brick one was taken up and produced and sent across the sea. Here some photos of this, I have begun to paint in Different brick colours and I will go over this again with a misting of brick red to bed the lot down. Nice kit and went together with ease, Sometimes it good to do easy stuff to be the mojo rolling! Thread on RMWEB with the lads layout and his website, the Canel Warehouse end would be good for an Irish layout. https://www.jsmodels.co.uk/ https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/152619-jsmodels-latest-update/

I stay away from Humbrol Varnishes these days, I use the alclad stuff now due to that very problem.

Still hard enough to put the few bob away and I have not even order 1 A class yet! The joys of Multiple Interests is a killer!

Good contrast, The SSM one still stands up well against the RTR jobs,

The Schools do the job they are meant to do and very well. Tender and front bogie pick up make it a sweet runner. Even with a Die cast Chassis a 4-4-0 would not have the traction to pull what it needs to pull. I have no issue with the design. Copy that being in Aus.

Start saving your pennies, they are far from Cheap. Thank god I don't like buses.

You could easily do this yourself Noel, Your nearly there as it is with your efforts these days.

Man alive Buz, I have 3 Schools class with Traction tyres and they are possibly the best runners out of everything I have and are great pullers, I've had them now for a good number of years. Lack of Spare Tyre's? Try here, there are quite a few to choose from: https://www.petersspares.com/index.jsp?searchStr=traction+tyres You have to wonder what the Spares situation will be like for the Irish stuff in years to come, Already hard to get hhandrails for the 141's. Perhaps a lot of dead locos?

Yes Pity they did not do the Water Tank and the side dates ala Sheffield Park and have a complete station for chaps. I actually Drove past the Auld house about 2 years back and was surprised it was actually a real gaf. Like many other rural Pubs it is now history. Bit dearer than the model though if you want it https://www.myhome.ie/commercial/brochure/the-auld-house-killamery-callan-kilkenny/4207812

Noel still is stuck in the Triang there Rich! Some Cracking UK stuff right across the board these days. 1980's German stuff was classy, Weighty but came with a hefty price tag. Never could get over the little bumps in the middle of the sleeper though. I remember visiting a colleague of my fathers work In Ballincollig, He had a Marklin set up in his sons room. Used to love visiting as of course I would be ushered upstairs for the duration of the visit. All the collection was sold off as he pegged it in his late 40's, (Heavy Smooker) I got one loco from his wife for my efforts in 're oganising' the layout each time I visited!

Wow Mine just arrived a few mins ago, Close call, the missus out doing the messages. Smashing bit of kit when stuck behind a Loco. Tiny bottom part of the bogie axle cover was flying around in the box, took me a while to figure what that actually was until I saw the exploded view on the back of the leaflet included and a brake wheel broken off so must of had some knocks during transit. No have to get the glue out to fix and to have a play at lunchtime. Fair play top notch stuff IRM dudes.

When the high Spec Accurascale Bulleids start to come out then the big H might get a wobble or two!

Sweet, I'll look forward to the 3 hours Sams train version at a later stage.

Class 66 was the Hattons duplicate (lots of complaints with that one and the rocking motion whilst running, Rails to had problems with Terriers too), In all fairness they wade into the water and get burnt. They were giving out when Hornnby wanted to sell off the website directly too. I read that they were buying up other shops Baccy stock to flog on.

Fingers crossed they don't have a spaz attack with Mr Murphy. Spose The Terriers having a go at each other was one, The Rocket Coach was another, some other bloke mentioned something to do with Short Supplying the Duchess of Atholl 100 years Anniversary model (its only LMS anyway so dont know what the big deal is). the big lads want to hoover everything up it seems and there pre orders were not fulfilled. They only made 500 so spreading those models about was going to be thin anyway.

Looks like Bit of a Fanny attack! Below statement in email just came in, Not Dealing with the big H anymore. Man alive More drama with this railway lark then whats on TV. Well W1 duly re ordered from the big M in Ireland..

Just what I did not want to see opening my mails today! Tanks anyway, duly ordered.

Hi Folks, Kinda wanted a rest from Modelling due to many failures with painting and Family taking up a lot of my time but the big 50 hit the other week and the folks kindly bought me this as a pressie. The ol fella prefers giving something physical than cash. (would of been handy for A Class or 6!) Any way the yoke is big, Maybe too big but I'll give it a go. I need to plan this one carefully due to limited access with the narrow superstructure so that presents a fairly big challenge along with quite a bit extra to buy to get it over the line. For a start I've run some P38 car filler around the Bulwarks and these need to be sanded smooth at some stage when I can be bothered to go shopping for Sand Paper. Pictures below in the sitting room, no comments about the curtains please Dave. Cheers George

Hi Spudfan, I was gonna make that suggestion too after a couple of gawks of the piccys, the Grey version look very plastic with the Yellow Printed on. Time will tell I spose when you get one in the hand.

Lima ones are probably the Easiest to do, Glass comes out easy and the High window surrounds can be painted silver easily enough. The Hornby ones are a pain in the hole with the glazing breaking, I had to but Shawplan Mk.3 glazing which added to the cost big time for a few I did. I then purchased SSM Etched Stainless Steel Window surrounds to finish off. http://www.shawplan.com/extreme_coachandunit_Laserglaze_4mm.html http://www.studio-scale-models.com/Coaches.shtml Plus with the Shawplan you can leave the white protective cover on for the Jacks windows.

Quite. The Media Love banding about the phrase 'Millions' as if it was spare change.