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Or the monthly cattle coming out of Dingle…. Roger at Alphagraphix does do CIE travel posters BTW…just to keep on topic!!

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‘bright clearing’ - did the person who named Fintona ever actually visit it?

To be fair, Dave, it was much the same in the ‘murder triangle’ of N Belfast, and was only imposed on me later in life. May I pick a window then ?

Nice Noel, are you going to add a bit of ballast etc between the door and the cess to simulate a pathway?

What a brilliant movie, John. How much it brings back!! My grandparents had Charolais cattle that I recall - that was N Leitrim in the early 70s.

One of my earliest memories of trips to Leitrim in the 70s involves the corrugated iron shops - now closed - between Belcoo and Manorhamilton. That’s shops made out of the stuff, not retailing it…..For Drumkeeran Road, I’ve tried building one from plastic sheet etc. Crude but 2’ rule and all that - it’ll be at the back of the layout. First pass with some weathering today.

Looking good Noel. Are the cows small or far away ?

Drill Service Ltd of Horley come highly recommended and will give good advice. Many of the drill bits sold under model branding such as Expo etc are not always up to much….

Personal messenger. Click on Airfixfan’s name and it should come up as an option - an icon of an envelope ….

The answer is it depends! Have you tried an Archimedes drill? Dremel etc are good but really need to be in a stand for work like that. Am assuming you have dimpled the work piece first, and are using lubricant ?

Shaping up really well. This will be one of those layouts where you don’t actually need any trains to make it interesting!

Colin- I think Alphagraphix do these.

Nice work - good subtle blending of colours. Quite appropriate for Carrantuohill to look steamy too - there’s got to be a reason the GN named 174 after it!

As in this lovely shot from Ernie…..

Any self respecting CB English teacher would have pulled you up for using ‘can’ rather than ‘may’……

Well if he’s happy…. Well, if he’s happy….

Wow indeed !! Real look of Glenarm about it….lovely. I also think we need to hear more about this layout - and stock….

A further advantage of painting, I have discovered this morning, is that the back scene can be revised if you find that the scenic feature you are installing needs a slightly different level of sky/land interface than you’d thought …..

It’s particularly annoying as both Ernie and Jonathan are keen to help bona fide enthusiasts. I have had to buy many of my photographs either in book form or from offline archives. To have them made freely available is such a gift - and shouldn’t be abused.

Like this ? Just notice how the essence is reducible to varying horizontal bands of colour….the green-brown at the back is a lighter shade than at the front.

Paint your own, JHB. It’s really not as difficult as it sounds. Barry Norman’s book on scenery tells you how. It’s based on ever thinner washes of green. Here’s a crude one I made this week. The idea of a backscene, I think, is to provide just enough depth to fool the eye into focusing on what’s in the foreground. Look at a lot of coloured photos of Irish railways and what you see in the background is a vague sweep of green and brown. Note that you will have to specifically focus away from the railway content to do that! As long as there’s a suggestion of. appropriate background, your brain will paint in the rest. It’s a basic camouflage technique - just providing enough visual clues for you to see what you are ‘meant’ to see. Photo backscenes are fine but sometimes too sharp and actually distract the eye towards them…well that’s my rationale anyway! The lowest layers of this one will have 3D scenery in front, but will hopefully give the idea of that classic Connaught high ground behind.

This item is now sold - thanks

Outstanding David. Absolutely wonderful. Know what you mean about the bow pen! So good to see 2 GSW locos close together. The late Drew Donaldson would have loved this - although upbraided you for not using clockwork !

Nice convincing scene taking shape