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Excellent David - although you’re giving me flashbacks !! It is a most exacting task and I remember a lot of fettling, filing and filleting too- nice job you’ve done though.

Thanks JB. Was particularly interested in how they managed single line permissions in that scenario - eg ETS/ tablet etc

What was the signalling for that JB? That’s my plan for ‘Drumkeeran Road’ but I’d like to do it prototypically….

Now that lifts the game. One of the most neglected aspects of our little worlds are the vertical dimensions. Charlie Insley’s Caher Patrick grabs the eye with its street scene as it has an oft neglected scenic detail - telephone and utility wires crossing the road at first floor level. That wiring you have in the bottom picture hints at miles more offstage. The framing shows us what we should be looking at. Great stuff all round.

Having said that Ernie, Peco have been running out of track so we may not be out of the woods ourselves!

Looking forward to seeing the pics- Iain Rice’s ‘Cameo layouts’ book talks about how we often neglect this ‘presentational aspect’.

By the looks of your soldering David I did a lot more grumbling! That’s not an easy task but you’ve made it come out well.

Thanks - I’m in touch with that gent ! It was June 2003. Mark Fisher has also done some nice stuff http://s116425720.websitehome.co.uk/MemberLayouts/FinnegansCrossing/FinnegansCrossing.htm The advent of 3D printing has opened up a lot of stuff on Shapeways in TTN3, so it’s a good time to start. You’re right though - should be more popular than it is!

Dragged on a few weeks now but more or less finished this West Clare Drewry railcar. Worsley Works etches provided sides ends and floor, most of the latter being cut away to fit in a little Kato motor. It’s far from perfect but runs like a dream. Finished in weathered GS colours. It’s small compared to a 7mm coach !

Not to mention the gauge issue ! 9mm track scales out at 4’5”; too narrow really for ‘English’ trains never mind 5’3”. Although it’s still closer to Irish scale than OO Gauge and its scale 4.125 foot track Seriously though, you need to weigh up what kind of railway you want. Having modelled in 2, 3, 4, 7 and 16mm scales, the general rule for indoor or shed layouts (garden railways change the rule) is that the smaller the scale, the more emphasis there is on a sweep of landscape with less emphasis on the rolling stock. It allows for longer trains, sweeping curves, and a real sense of place. As the scale gets bigger, the trains themselves dominate your field of view. The emphasis on detail gets greater, but it’s harder to find space for depth of scenic development. N gauge has got exceptionally sophisticated since I first encountered it 40 plus years ago. But OO gauge has a wider manufacturing base (in the U.K. outline area at least) and will always be easier to acquire. Nothing to stop you trying out a simple layout in N to see how it goes !

Now that’s modelling!

Excellent. Nothing quite like doing your own stuff to a model and seeing it turn out well.

Great- looks right at home in that setting!

I think Mr Holman was referring to the likelihood of Andy mentioning his layout on here rather than building it! Lovely pic of Fintona in that last shot @Irishswissernie- esp the characters gathered round the bike in the background

It’s there JB - but very well camouflaged against the building behind it!

How minimal do you want ? Stourbridge town - a terminus with no turnouts at all....;)

Terrific work Patrick. A real sense of time and place.

Struck me as a yoke off a fence as Eoin suggests

Beautiful John. Also slightly distracted by that fantastic 4-4-0....

As an eighteenth century traveller in our island gloomily commented, ‘nothing lasts long in Ireland except the miles’.

Me too

As NIR says, an illusion, JB, but it does look as if they are trying to make it into a compound with an oil drum as the low pressure cylinder!

Suir Valley would give her a nice leg stretch.....

Inspired by @J-Mo Artsrecent photo of an 009 Clogher Valley ‘Blessingbourne’ I thought I’d best finish off mine - although in fairness I did only start it 10 days ago! The real thing was a disaster with appalling adhesion - but a very smart loco. An ideal fit for a Kato bogie chassis - almost! The motor is wide just where the boiler is meant to curve inwards, but I have tried to disguise that. All scratch built -bar the handrail knobs. I turned up the dome and chimney from brass bar. She has separate wire handrails, glazing fore and aft, real coal and a crew. The lettering is a distinct feature of the real thing. Although mine is a little high on the tank sides it hopefully captures the arc of the original. It’s a bit crude but for a first 3mm effort I’m happy enough. In this scale the emphasis is more on trains in the landscape than microscopic detail - I hope....As you can see, she’s a bit smaller than the 7mm loco I have just built ! And she does sit nicely on scale 3’ track.

Is this close ?