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  1. Galteemore
    Fab. An order duly placed! From long experience, it’s one of the best ways to support preservation.
  2. Galteemore
    In terms of extra parts….All you will get are flat etches of sides, ends, floor and footboards - and hopefully a chassis etch. You’ll need wheels/bearings, buffers, vac pipes, couplings/NEM pockets, door handles, roof fittings, and axle guards
  3. Galteemore
    Real master class in turning out an operationally effective, scenically delightful layout in a reasonable space. Very nicely done. Care is required though…
  4. Galteemore
    Card kits are fab and make great templates. I used one to make the signal box I just finished.
  5. Galteemore
    Yes it’s all most interesting. I’d say tbh that an F6 could work well as a 3d print. That footplate is very tricky to get right in brass. Got that T-shirt….
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  7. Galteemore
    These were off BP drawings I supplied. But they may be able to work off dimensions
  8. Galteemore
    Big shout out for FK3D, a 3d printer who have done Irish stuff for me. Very helpful and reasonable. No connection other than satisfied customer etc
  9. Galteemore
    It’s a fairly simple but clever system of wires and brackets, which should work equally well. The 2-4-0 and 2-4-2T designs have a basic sprung pony truck arrangement. The 2-2-2T has a most unusual springing arrangement with a flexible piece of brass.
  10. Galteemore
    Looks like a spring driven device rather than pyro.
  11. Galteemore
    Ah come on JHB you can do better than that. Surely you can flog that cannon to some of your tourists for hundreds of euro by telling them it was used by Michael Collins as a child…Seriously, some great material there for conversions . That Fowler tank is a good donor for a WT and the Compound for….well, a Compound. Schools class makes a fair VS.
  12. Galteemore
    Same with Guinness engine. Galteemore snr snr supplied the paint for that !
  13. Galteemore
    it’s really important to remember that 186 arrived on a railway where daily steam was still a reality - in a filthy and degraded state. I have a lot of sympathy with the York Road crews who decided this was an engine they could make a fuss of!
  14. Galteemore
    186 worked for NIR in black - with various red bits. It was actually SLNCR livery ! 27 spent much of her UT career looking very dowdy in faded SLNC colours. Around 1965 she got the full UT livery makeover and looked very splendid !
  15. Galteemore
    Which is deeply ironic given that Lough Erne is of immense historic value as the last standard gauge steam locomotive built for an Irish railway. 105 doesn’t count !27’s tragedy was that it was always too big or too small for what the RPSI needed. It will almost certainly never run again and should be in Cultra but it’s in such a state now that even cosmetic restoration would be horribly expensive.
  16. Galteemore
    Thanks - first effort at lining a loco! Hopefully some day it will appear at a show alongside Mr Hs! . @Northroadermade one too, so there’s a few about!
  17. Galteemore
    Have a vague idea that Roger offered a kit many moons ago? He may have some ideas….
  18. Galteemore
    Can’t claim credit for either. A rare 36.75mm set on eBay! The loco required some cosmetic work including a cab interior, and a partial repaint. Beautifully engineered but with a maddening intermittent short
  19. Galteemore
    Funny you post a pic of 181 with a van - here’s proof they eventually got to Mayo ;). Seriously, I don’t think GN stuff tended to travel too far off its old territory. But if you have one photo of a van in Cork then that’s all you need!
  20. Galteemore
    It is similar in the basic design philosophy Roger uses, but as a tender loco there’s more work. Have a look for David’s build on the J18 - it needed a lot of work on boiler and cab IIRC. The G2 is lovely but a 2-4-0 tender loco can require a bit of fettling to run. A simple 0-6-0T or similar is the tried and tested route into loco kit building - wish I’d started that way !
  21. Galteemore
    No worries. David’s two look better !
  22. Galteemore
    Three and four were movie contracts. The last one was painted in the style Drew Donaldson adopted for all of his locos! The turntable pic is Bray in pre Dart days. I think that’s the remnants of the ‘First Great Train Robbery’ stock in the background. This lingered on a siding at Bray until swept away by DART works c1981.
  23. Galteemore
    IIRC they found traces of green when rebuilding 4 - think was on a wheel off another WT. I also have a dim idea that Mac Arnold had suggested painting 4 maroon in the 70s to keep the NCC glory alive! We’d be horrified at such a notion now but have to remember Mac’s generation had seen two decades of steam becoming increasingly dowdy. A number of GB groups also presented weird and wonderful liveries around this time …..anyone remember the Caledonian blue Fairbairn tank ?
  24. Galteemore
    Won’t matter as they are brass so you’ll have to paint it yourself anyway - is not like the card preprinted kits. I have made up a J26 and 2 MGW coaches. Straightforward as David says / they are also designed for 32mm primarily rather than 36.75, and most of my building heartache came from the 5’3 bit!
  25. Galteemore
    Presumably by doing horrible things to the chassis for 21mm conversion
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