Dempsey

3 hours ago, JasonB said:

Brilliant stuff @Dempsey. Love seeing that grubby 141 trundling about. 

Hopefully it will have an equally grubby partner soon

Arrived today. Roll on Friday evening until I get home to get my weathering hands on them.

Now the scenic work can continue with all the gremlins worked out electronically. 

19 hours ago, Sleeper said:

Well done IRM, absolutely superb models

Lovely running, no shaking with them

Interior lighting is a great feature.

They look fantastic. Can't wait for mine to arrive 

Trick is to get her to buy them for you

1 hour ago, DJ Dangerous said:

Lovely stuff! The sound is just wonderful. Did you re-wire the loco lighting for shunting?

No not at all, there is an esu decoder in it so unless the single tail light is programed for it I can't say. 

With the wiring fully completed a few issues have developed. 

1. There is a dead section of track. This is on a point which was never intended to have a point motor as it is permanently set into the yard. While it had been pre wired I simple overlooked wiring it up. 

2. The point motor at the far end of the yard has seized up, and won't throw. I've disconnected it and retested with a new 9v. Unfortunately it looks like I'll need a new one.

On the other hand I did have some time to do some shunting.

2 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said:

 

I was more concerned about the poop smeared all over it. Did you wipe that off?

I had a bid in to try and save it haha

I know it gives a date that the amount is due, the pay now throw so thought better to check. Thanks for the reply Bos

Do you have to go through partial.ly for putting down a deposit as it says you can do or is it a case that if you hit pay now it loads that option?

Excellent

Brilliant scenes

2 hours ago, Gabhal Luimnigh said:

Fair dues lad, I don't have any points wired yet even though I have point motors, I will bite the bullet sometime though

Thank you, had a few gremlins at the start when I began but that was more down to learning. 

49 minutes ago, Rob said:

Very impressed at all that- couldn't do it myself so looks good.

Nice milestone to reach

The ocd took over a bit with the routing of wiring but happy with the results. You are spot on on that front, glad to have it done and look forward to a bit of shunting around before working on some of the building lighting.

Latest update at Barracks Street.

The wiring as you can see if fully completed and tested. This includes the point motors and switches. There motors and switching harness was done with a 9v battery and pending the arrival of the power supply. 

I also built a control panel for the point switches. 

Your thoughts as always are appreciated. 

Chris

While not going for a peacetime look the rusting and even the build up on the lower hull is not finished. The layers are still to be faded back. Thank you for the link, i will look into it.

Airfix 1/600 HMS Hood model kit for a nice change of pace.

Maybe I'm looking at this through the eyes of the 12 year old I was making the last kit I got from Airfix but I don't remember the being such issues with fitment as you can see.

Here are some pictures of the progress so far.

Your thoughts and comments are as always appreciated. 

4 hours ago, JasonB said:

Love the weathering job on A30. The streaking in particular looks great. I'm guessing @Dempsey got his hands on this? 

Guilty as charged

Absolutely, it really adds to the personal touch of a layout. 

Glad your enjoying the progress 

In the latest update I have spent the last while working on a number of scratch built cottages which face onto the road which will run the rear of the layout. The is still more details to add before painting.

Also the view on the last picture, I plan to cut the backscene to allow viewing up along the street with the chance to see some train movements in the background toward the bridge. 

Your thoughts as always are appreciated. 

Chris.

2 hours ago, JasonB said:

Lovely work @Dempsey. Really like the finish on the bogies and around the tank.

Thank you very much. 

1 hour ago, DJ Dangerous said:

 

The lower level weathering in particular is photo realistic, can almost hear her rumbling along when looking at that.

If only I'd a sound chip for her.

Turn of my NIR 201 to get the weathering treatment with the pending arrival of the NIR mk2's.

1 minute ago, JasonB said:

Just seeing this now. That's a very impressive piece of modelling. Superb work. 

Thank you very much. It is by far my favourite piece and scene of the layout 

Some more MK2 stock heavily weathered. 

Your thoughts as always appreciated 

IRrailways offer a weathering service for all coaching stock ranging from faint to heavy. To the customers own requirements. 

Below are a few examples. 

DM for enquiries and pricing.