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Why did I waste my time at TCD going to lectures when I could have been watching this for real ?! Brilliant stuff !

I’m planning to use Tamiya German Grey on my GSR build :TS4 is the code.

Looking good David, and four days is actually pretty fast for such work! Will be following this with interest as ever, esp with the hornblocks which I am looking at for future use. Very neat drawing too..!

Isn’t that a sight? Imagine it in colour....

A sheet of NS etches and a GW models rivet press - quality combo. Nice work. The GW press is a beautiful piece of machinery, once you get used to its little ways!

Thanks everyone- I appreciate the encouraging comments. What I’ll probably do near the end, Angus, is use a small piece or two of right angle brass to solder the ns backing plate to the footplate or frames : not sure which as yet.....I may go for the footplate idea as it will provide some lateral stiffening when I’m doing all the smokebox stuff...this image shows just how much hacking about I’m doing as I learn! I’d made the front splasher aperture too big so have had to close it off a bit. This should look ok up top when the splashers are in and some filler applied. This rear view also shows how the bolt heads and safety chain eyes are soldered in and then filed down.

Every now and then I think I’m taking this project too seriously. Tonight is one example... I really need to stop looking at photos!! A number of depictions of ‘Enniskillen’ show that she had a front buffer beam very obviously made of wood - with very obvious scars. Once seen I couldn’t unsee it. So how to replicate ? Weeks of thought later.... take an old boxwood ruler, Dremel it down to 3mm and glue a nickel silver plate on the back. Mark that out and then drill 21 holes of various sizes. Insert various .5 and 1mm brass rivets, washers and top hat bearings to replicate the iron work. Soldering these in also helps fix the wood and metal together. Attack the wood with a piercing saw and gouge in a few crevices as per the original. Job done...it’s not perfect but gives an impression....and should pass the 2’ rule. Thanks to @Irishswisserniefor 1957 pic.

I can only presume that the trip recorded in the photos took place between 1937 and 1949? The Republic is clearly recognised in the heading to Part 1 so I can only assume that the choice of words is deliberate. Intriguingly an LMS Jubilee class loco was originally named ‘Irish Free State’ and then quickly changed to ‘Eire’ after Dev’s change. It still bore that name right through to scrapping despite Costello’s declaration in 49. Mind you, mistakes do happen in these books. Colin Boocock’s lovely ‘Irish Railway Album’ includes a nice 1950s shot from inside the cab of SLNC ‘Sir Henry’ at Glenfarne heading to Sligo- but is described as ‘facing the border with Eire’ so wrong on several counts !

Many thanks JB but the plates are an Alphagraphix etch - the first and for a long time the only item I’d actually acquired for the project! Actually having a tank side to stick it on feels like a landmark though.

Lovely Patrick ! What’s the T2 source - it looks very good?!

A job I was dreading was the main tanks for Enniskillen. I had the misfortune to come across a well lit photo of the original loco which shows exactly how many rivet lines there are - so had no excuse for skimping a few. These are big bits of metal (relatively speaking) and need to be dead straight - otherwise the rivet machine will produce angled rows ...after many attempts we have a result. I am now more proficient in using an engineer’s square! The rivet press requires one to solder a spacing piece in on occasions to ensure that rivets right to the edge can be embossed - a handy review in MRJ alerted me to how to do it! Couldn’t resist trying out a nameplate ....and trying my own black and white pic...the green stuff is Sharpie marker which helps in showing just where you’ve scribed a line.

Mick is regarded with some awe in these parts - that is a cracking free tutorial !!!

Yes - would be keen to hear from the connoisseurs re just how much fresh material is in here. Ballydehob viaduct is lovely but it’s a photo that has appeared fairly widely.

Excellent, David! Have you tried Alan O’Rourke for drawings etc ?

Apparently because that was the last C to haul a train out of the place....although that wasn’t the case!

Long gone, Noel I’m afraid ....http://eiretrains.com/Photo_Gallery/Railway Stations C/Cahirciveen/IrishRailwayStations.html#Cahirciveen_20100815_002_CC_JA.jpg Five years ago the loco (or what remains of the loco) was in storage at Kilmacow, Waterford. Not sure as to its current status.

Here’s the roof of my MGW TPO (since withdrawn from Irish service and currently serving on a Gauge O Guild member’s English layout in Bucks as a grounded mess hut). Roof details as gleaned from Des Coakham’s book. This one had oil lamps and seemed to have ventilators.

Not quite sure what I think of this.. .

Lovely conservation work, David. I suspect Richard would approve. A Gerry Lambe-style makeover !

Now that’s nice. The perfect NIR look. When I I lived near the Watercress line I used to make trips on their Hampshire unit just to hear that noise....

Or use a P class ? Even smaller wheels and shorter wheelbase than a Terrier ....https://www.hattons.co.uk/375593/hattons_originals_h4_p_016_secr_p_class_0_6_0t_31556_in_br_black_with_early_emblem/stockdetail.aspx

Is that a whale way station ?

Nor is there a pub in view. I think it’s the red brick that fools the eye too rather than seeing the traditional render.

Got this in my emails today. Not my scale but may be of interest to you 4mm men! https://war-world.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=441595b2342e77989e1dfaf9b&id=487438f9a3&e=f4ddf58f8e

That makes the work - esp on the tender - even more praiseworthy !