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That’s lovely Alan. Fabulous work

Very nice build. I’d no idea that the NCC had its own Exmouth Junction style concrete works! Mountmellick in Laois had a similar structure which is still extant. Image courtesy late Fred Dean

Yes that rings a bell with me John - pretty sure he had this in his range about 6 years ago

Oh this sounds so familiar! Suppose it’s a question of working out what will actually facilitate rather than hinder your modelling.

Can’t imagine you voiced those feelings to Drew Donaldson Leslie! As I dimly recall, the cat had a very privileged role in his household. Probably miaowed in Irish too…

Any ideas for what kind of set up you’ll be modelling in terms of prototype? Looks a great start. We used to live in NW Hants between Basingstoke and Fleet……I modelled Kato N gauge out of the box back then!

Yes when we lived in Dublin for educational reasons it had to be south of the river. So anything north of O’Connell St was ‘here be dragons’

They are northsiders now Bob - anything could happen…..

Excellent work! And if you live near Andy you’re probably not far from me (far west Oxfordshire)

Duly arrived in deepest Oxfordshire. Just waiting for the traumatic memories of my school commute to kick in…..great product btw!

Fabulous and unusual. Your subtle finishing really works well

Cabra or Phibsborough? Looks fab

But not if you’ve been handling white metal

Welcome back David - or should that be ‘sir’? Looks a good tip with the brick sheet

Wonderful. The original, I think, resulted from an unemployment relief project to double Whitehead-Carrick, a project that was reversed about 70 years later!

I’m opening just such a box of doom myself Paul, with the intent to progress it over Christmas. Fair point about the detail- one gets away with a fair amount of leeway in 7mm! Sorry to hear that you have OCD - having had some encounters with sufferers, it’s a very debilitating and often misunderstood condition and I hope that modelling gives you some respite from it.

Could probably do your own resin castings quite easily. I’ve done it for railbus wheels

Fab, shows some of F6 variations too. I don’t especially like the cut down tanks on 36!

Yes, I’m interested in this as I’m about to make a 1700 gallon tender in original form. These shots are most useful thanks!

Most interesting. Remains of a 1700 gallon tender being put to good use!

Sounds like a typical day in the Glen of Imaal

Looks really good. Iain Rice recommends a coating of talc on such things to blend all the colours together

Looks great Paul. I agree that the lower bit would look better left plain. I think the Irish signage is great for shows and will show it’s not your usual SLT or BR depot! On the RH panel a photo or two and simple route map would look well

That’s most interesting FS, many thanks. As you can probably guess, we didn’t really touch on Irish at my school….

Like this - courtesy of a post elsewhere on forum by @minister_for_hardship