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Galteemore

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  1. I knew it wasn’t a Metcalfe kit but that’s a totally different level again. Real sophistication of technique here - thanks for sharing.
  2. Now that’s very fine work. Looks really well - picture 1 especially impressive. What’s the process behind the station buildings ? They look really good
  3. Here’s a video of a recent model….
  4. But of course, Hawthorn Leslie was a North Eastern workshop. Bound to turn out ugly stuff. You need to head to Manchester for true locomotive elegance
  5. No way could I do such a thing myself Mike but I know there’s some who might find it a short cut to a chassis ! if I was building a Bandon tank it would be an Alphagraphix 7mm one…. The A5 looks a lovely model and it’s another NE one for you Ernie!!
  6. Lovely Ernie. Having visited a few times, I get the charm of it! I had a an IOW terrier in 7mm before I moved to 5’3”. The Vectis lines are almost Irish at times, with a gentler climate. These are good times for OO modellers - Sonic models have just shown a GCR 4-6-2T, one of my favourites, which might be a useful donor chassis for a CBSC 4-6-0T if you can live with a few discrepancies…..
  7. Great - thanks Ernie. That tool hut looks suspiciously like the pay carriage off the GSWR ‘Sprite’. Image courtesy ‘Locomotives of the GSWR’ via RM Web
  8. Great stuff Ernie. Hope you get some positive news on the health front.
  9. And some fool spots it….I can do none of the things you mention there but do spend much of my working life editing text …sorry Ken ! The wagons really have a classic Irish look and a world away from the repainted BR box van with a flying snail transfer that many of us have passed off as Irish!
  10. “Very pleased with how the detail has poped out once painted” Excellent work Ken, although I am struggling to see the Roman influence……;) In all seriousness these wagons look the business
  11. Tracked it down. RPSI PWI special was 1985…..https://www.geograph.ie/photo/3789663
  12. Wasn’t there a special for the PWI with RPSI wooden stock, steam hauled with a number of loco changes?
  13. They operate at the other end of the supplier spectrum to Hornby etc and production fluctuates! I am pretty sure I saw it at Scaleforum a few years ago. SE Finecast do a thin corrugated sheet which I think would be more amenable to bending than Evergreen sheet and certainly than Ratio’s toffee-like slabs.
  14. IIRC Ambis Engineering do or did corrugated sheet like that. http://www.ambisengineering.co.uk/Products/Products_Index.htm
  15. Those are top notch Ken. Instantly recognisable Irish prototypes and nicely finished. Will look wonderful when painted up.
  16. Looks well so far. The cycling coach Dave Brailsford talks about marginal gains and the cumulative effect on a teams performance - the small steps that add up. This is a classic example of marginal gains at work. Every piece of point rodding, every ground signal, adds to the composite picture of Larne Harbour. The whole thing is coming together so well.
  17. Thank you. I can enjoy the pictures properly now
  18. That’s looking really good. Loads of atmosphere even without the exiguous buildings. Shouldn’t that distant be fixed at danger though ?;)
  19. The NCC locos are very tricky - David Lloyd and Charlie Insley both say so ! They don’t have a normal footplate so the tanks are effectively the loco foundation. All the same I fancy a try some day, but have a few things in the mix first……
  20. Some of the West Clare locos look very tidy - and the NCC tanks are delightful.
  21. Excellent idea. These are great quality pics that deserve an appreciative, informed audience.
  22. Loco and setting looks more like a German park railway than RHDR, I’d say, JB….
  23. Harbour pic is possibly Newport, Isle of Wight. Crouchers was a shipping company linking Southampton with the island.
  24. Thankfully MS still survives in part - the firm’s engineering division has become Whale Water Pumps.
  25. What a treat - these are lovely. Quite a rarity too - shows what IOMR livery was like before the colour explosion of the Ailsa era. J I C Boyd argued that the Irish NG was far more akin to IoM than Welsh NG in its scale and practice, and the IOM Rlwy still allows one to experience something of what the Ballymena to Larne section was like with BP 2-4-0Ts.
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