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Stunning workmanship lad

Lovely pieces.

8 minutes ago, Galteemore said:

Excellent. Chassis building can be fraught (speaks someone in the midst of it) but a jig like this will help. Just make sure your solder is on a reel and then between the jigs and the reels you’ll be fine!!

Excellent, your dialogue is up there with your kit building, thanks again lad.

Well thanks to Galteemore I got a start 

The two blue shunters are gone now.

2 hours ago, Mayner said:

The locally promoted Derry-Central  (Macfin to Magherafelt) had "Cead mile failte"  on the company seal, though the railway promoters and investors being primarily English, Scots and Anglo-Irish it appears unlikely that the major companies considered the use of Irish.

Whatever the Westminster governments policy of assimilation, like Daniel O'Connell's and the Catholic Church promotion of English as a spoken language may have been a major factor in the decline of Irish as a spoken language during the 19th Century.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_O'Connell

 

The decline of the Irish language was down to Peig, she haunted us!

You're correct Patrick, I am making two rubber packers for the back of it, I will do the wiring first.

Ok lads I have a load of coaches here and two locomotives, all repainted, mostly by Millipede (Gerry), they are good reproductions but I have enough and I thought maybe someone here might like them, €15 each for the coaches and €30 each for the locos, both running.

Some of the locos are working, some are definitely not, I will put the operational ones first and the duds last.

20 minutes ago, LNERW1 said:

Any of the tank engines, Jinty would be nice specifically as I already have from the same tooling and want to make a UTA liveried pair.

I will take a few pictures of what I have and make a new post.

23 hours ago, LNERW1 said:

I'd say they're gone now?

What are you looking for exactly? I can have a dig in the box.

Not much progress, too much fine weather means outside work, getting some of the track sorted and got the gaugemaster controller fitted in position.

1 hour ago, LNERW1 said:

I'd say they're gone now?

Yep 

Lovely collection.

Brilliant 

34 minutes ago, Darrman said:

 

A fan of the SLNCR?

Yep and why not!

33 minutes ago, Tullygrainey said:

Endorse all the sound advice above. It makes sense to start with something reasonably simple, if only as a confidence booster.
However, you seem to be comfortable with your soldering skills so you’re well on your way already. If you do decide to launch into a loco kit as a first project, I’d advise avoiding anything with outside cylinders or complicated motion. I do. Regularly. As others have suggested, The E Class from SSM looks like a good choice. 
Best of luck with whatever you take on. There’ll be plenty of advice on this forum if you get stuck. 
Alan

Thanks Alan, I think I will start with something easy, this forum is an encyclopedia.

1 hour ago, derek said:

Yes, I would agree about having the effect of a ballast shoulder (ballast- shudder!) and the deadening of sound. I just used strips of 3mm hardboard as underlay(cos I had loads of the stuff) . I know plenty on here won't agree with me , but I fix track and ballast at the same time, using double sided tape. A bit more tedious but is way quieter than ballasting with glue. Go with whatever floats your boat as far as to underlay or not. Your layout is quite short, am I right, so your locos won't be going at any great speed. So the running noise should not really be an issue. (Unless you get a noisy mac noise loco, like I just did. But that's another story)

I thought you loved ballasting?

Thanks lads, great information as usual, I'm well used to soldering, brazing, gas welding etc etc, I also did my apprenticeship as a sheet metal fabricator so we'll see if Anco were any good , I appreciate the help and hints.

Lads I'm going to head into the dark arts side of the hobby, I'm looking for a steam loco for my Kilfree Junction layout, so I'm picking the brains of the elders here who can tell me which kit to get? Studio Scale Models have a few options.

Nice addition Noel, it works well.

Great pictures.

I'd love to see it but the wrong end of the country after a hard week of work

7 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

Eoin Murray’s SSM ones unveiled tonight on Dugort Harbour thread.

It will be interesting to see them alongside a shiny IRM silver Park Royal, or indeed compared with the Hattons ones.

Now that's handsome.