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Humbrol do a Clear now as well, Very comparable to the Johnsons stuff. Link to how to Video:

Ok Des, I will bring it to the show in November. Revell seem to have all the Matchbox kits and have released them slowly over the last couple of years, The latest Aircraft ones were the Stranraer, Canberra, Puma, Heinkel 115, Twin Otter, Corvette, HP Victor and many more so they have not gone away, just one colour and in a new box!! The current Revell 1.76 range is the old Matchbox tanks with the little Dio. Great fun!! Thing is to watch out for Revell Boxing Hasegawa kits, Half the Asking price!!! Check out the Current He.111

The Portacabin is pretty good, Nice a warm in the summer but not too hot, Comes complete with sockets and a heater which is good. I did get an offer of a 30ft for about E500 as no one wants those but the boss said no, should of said nothing and got one in the end as you can be a bit of space. The cabin was E2500 and that was after shopping around, Its not new thought but not too bothered about that. Thing is when I need a replacement or bigger effort it can be craned back out easily enough. As you say Rich these cabins are all around the country, you can pay large amounts of dosh for some snazzy ones but shop about. Vandal screens would be handy to so I will fit those on shortly as well as a motion alarm. Thing is now, OO or N gauge, Irish or UK, That the Dilemma. A Dapol HST in Blue grey will probably swing the N gauge vote!! Toying with doing a layout though based on Newcastle West ut with a Cement/ fert depot, The track layout is interesting and plenty of running around!! . Got the Track bought just need to work out how big. Probably will be an end to end exhibition set up. Thank for the nice comments lads. I will stick up the An post yokes soon, There just oxford vans repainted and Whestys Decals will be going on them. (sorry for the bad grammer but the Apostrophe key not working on Computer due to beer spillage) Regards George The Bandon tank is not quite there yet as had to put it aside for other work.

Des, I have one of these old Matchbox spits in the loft mate complete in its box!!! The Revell 1/32 spit is the same tooling if you want a bash of of that..Might be persuaded to give it a good home if your a good boy. G

Well I have been a bit on the quiet side but busy enough with various builds of kits and the like which are on the ISM forum i you want to take a peek but heres are few bits n bobs I have on the go at the moment. I wont bore you guys with weathering shots as I load these up on the facebook page I have now as its easy to do. Heres the new workshop delivered from Hayes Cabins in Castlefreake, Thanks to Tommy Nolan in Wexford for instilling the idea in my head, Its a bit of a mess inside but slowly will be kitted out. The size is 20ft x10ft. Heres some bit on the ol workbench last night. The next bit of work I am doing is repainting 2 071s to this livery: Heres how I am doing it: 071s and decals by the Wizard in the West. Before I took things apart I rubbed off the decals with a cotton bud and some white spirit. A couple of mins work had the numbers off Next was to take the main body off and I unscrewed the 4 screws under the bogies. I took off the red brake wheel, A little push with a blade and it popped out I then tackled the main decals,The reason behind this is that they show up underneath the paint spoiling the paint job. This took about a hour...Is there an easier way. I used 2000 grade wet n dry and cotton buds to tackle this slow job. The main printed markings have gone. I dont worry about the stuff in the grooves as it wont show. Then I turned my attention to the cabs. These come off with a tiny bit of Persuasion, If the little holding tab breaks off then just superglue it back on. The cab light wires were unsoldered. You can see the Square tabs here I then needed to take off the grab rails and these only need a tiny but of a lift to come out perfectly so that you can use them on a 121 build or 071!! I used a wire cutters to do this job. I pried off the headlights also with a blade and put the spare bits safely away so I cant find them in a few days time!! I then sanded off the raised details on the Cab front, I used 600 wet n dry for this Then I used Squadron signal Green stuff putty applied with a cocktail stick that had been cut to a flat end, I applied a small bit than necessary as this can shrink while drying All the stuff is now washed and drying so more work tomorrow night!! Bye fore now George

Cheers Bren, The Big stuff certainly can hold an audience. That 88 is living in Kinsale now!! Concur on the Tamiya Expensive side when Airfix are knocking out close if not the same quality product for a fraction of the price its madness. The new 1/72 harrier is brill, got two on the go.

Thanks guys, Got a new workshop a month or so ago as I was evicted out of my nice a cosy room so have not got much done in the way of building over the past year and I joined the local RC flying club for a change of scene so the new cabin has given me a gee up. Need to fill it with a layout as well at some stage!! On the Garden Stuff it is my Dads layout, At the moment he has one Isle of Man Engine, Caledonia, A couple of bogie Coaches and a few 4 wheelers and some freight wagons. which were kits.The IOM stuff only come out once in a blue moon and he is a waiting for some Beyer Peacock loco to arrive. I I sold about 10 of my Murphy locos I might just about get a live steamer!! Heres some piccys of the Rolling stock we have so far. These are not my shots. This is the one we are waiting on, They are usually produced in lots of 50 so we have to wait till it reaches the MOQ before work is to go ahead. One of the Pevril locos was sold of by the RSPI making close or over a E1000 on ebay, If you miss the boat on the models there impossible to get. I think this type of loco also operated from Ballymoney in NI.

Not sure if these guys have been mentioned here before but they do some lovely Laser cut models to suit O and G Scale. The kits are very precise and go together easily. Heres the link: http://www.ip-engineering.co.uk/acatalog/T___D_15_mm_Scale_Wagons.html Check out the other products that do as well, There some interesting stuff. I see the ol fellas mas pressie!! Cheer George

Nicely kitted out, JdAM, AMRAAMS, Winders kits by themselves. Great looking model as well. Seen the Shaw 16s in this scheme for real back in 97 in the uk....

No, Were gonna go with screwing the track down into Rawlplugs drilled into the block and then the ballast. I think it is about 120 feet of track in all.

Everyone will be a Rebel after next Saturday!!

Rich, The Pics tell I lie, I did 99% of this, the ol fella telling me where I am going wrong!! LOL

Hi Folks, Hope you don't mind me sticking up some info on the fair here. It was a great success last year and has given us the funding to get a few more layouts this year, We hope to have at least 7 on show all going well. We have some different traders from last year so it is quite different from the 1st one. We try to encompass quite a braod spectrum of modelling with railway, Plastic, diecast, Boats etc. The only problem we have it the Venue is too small as we have a massive response to the fair from other traders. Doors will be opening a bit earlier this year to alleviate the crowding we had last year. Heres a list of the main displays that are going to be there: Ed White Model Railway Accessories Diecastmodels4u http://www.diecastmodels4u.ie/ M&M Diecast Models: http://mandmdiecastmodels.com/crane-diecast-models.html Studio Scale Models: http://www.studio-scale-models.com/ Model Rail Baseboards: http://www.modelrailbaseboards.com/default.html Michael Morris Card Kits Dublin Model Shop AKA Walshies: http://www.dublinmodelshop.com/ Max Decals: http://maxdecals.com/ New IAC Decal Sheet out now RB Productions: http://www.radubstore.com/ Atlantic Model Boat Club Detail Matters http://detailmatters.co.uk/ 8Ft Flesichmann HO Model Railway 16ft US HO Model Railway Connaton N Gauge Model Railway Wellingtonbheag N Gauge Irish Model Railway or possible new n Scale layout on show. Kieran Nolan - William Britain's Collectable Model Soldiers. http://www.wbritain.com/newrelease.cfm IMPS Ireland - Cork Branch Shamrock Miniatures - http://www.shamrockminiatures.com/en/webshop/home Decs Model Garages http://www.decsmodelgarages.com/page_1.html 16ft N Gaage Amercian layout by James Dewar DCC Smoke and Sound layout from Mark Dunlea Kevin Meanys Irish Railway Figures All Scale Models http://www.allscalesmodels.com/inf/About-Us If you like Lima Class 47s I hear there is going to be a massive offload by one trader... Also many other private traders selling Railway, Plastic kits, Diecast, Circus etc will be on hand. Depending on the turnout I hope to be able to Donate some proceeds to the RPSI this year. Hope to see some of you boys and girls there Thanks George

Heres a couple I did myself, Used Revell Satin 364, Decals are Guaranteed Irish from Studio Scale Models .

And heres the Second Installment, bit more done and the track bed has been laid and settled. Pond dug and infill in the inclines and the over/under bridge as ready to be poured.

Not Strickly an Irish layout but it is in Ireland so hopefully it will fit in. Maybe some T&D or Blackrock and Passage G Scale will come along some time soon!! I started this with my Dad last year and was at it on and off. It had a long gestation time with the Garden hose being contorted into some impossible and over ambitious track plans so in the end we chose a simple dog bone with one end flipped over if you get my drift. At first we will be using Isle of Man Rolling stock from Accucraft until some Irish stuff come along!!! Heres a few pics of progress over the last year, after the plan was laid out we got soap stones and set these proud of the soil so it is easier to strim and cut the grass around the trak without damaging it, Track is all Peco, of course the ground undulates so give it a nice feel as it goes along disappearing in some cases. We will have a pond and bridge and deep cutting. Tracking layout should begin withing the next week or two. Heres the 1st set of pics.

This came along half built and unpainted so I finished it off, A monster of a kit it is but impressive when finisihed...

That looks more like a Dc-8 than a 707, of course EI never flew 8s which were a far better looking aeroplane.

Yeah I heard about the Swiss Venoms, What a sad sight from when they used to be bombing about the sky only a few years ago

If you can send me a Poster or flyers I would be happy to stick them up in Marks Models shop in Cork for you. Regards George

Given the year it was I had to do one of these as well. This is the old tool Airfix Lanc and will most likely be my last given the newer tooling is out.

Great to see a aviation section...The flight fest influence perhaps. This is the nice new tooling from Airfix, Went together well, one of the few kits I did this year so far/7q. Next one will be in IAC colours.

Decoders have arrived into Ireland from what I have been told, Packaging has to be sorted out as they don't fit into the Current MM Chip blister pack and then they will be on the Shelves very very soon.

Saturday the 23rd of Feb. If anyones around this Saturday a chap will be giving a demo on how to make moulds and how to cast your own parts and the different resins available, Denis uses car parts as examples but a handy lesson if you don't know how. Its free as well. This was first given last year and was very interesting. Kick off is at 1845hrs, Space is tight in the shop as we mostly have about 15-20 people at the gatherings. The meetings usually focuses on plastic kit modelling so if anyones in Cork is interested do pop by on the normlly on the last Saturday of each month, Bar December / Holiday leave / Personal reasons. Check Marks Models Cork on Facebook/ Irishscalemodeller.com for info. tks George

Marks Models had the Probox in stock till fairly recently, Price E119.99, You can read back CVs etc with that unit. They also have the new decoder in as well. Cheers George.