Galteemore

They are terrific. One of the ‘tests’ of a model railway is how identifiable it is with all the rolling stock removed..,,your layout clearly says GNR.

That’s looking really effective. Shades of New Ross c 1980

That’s hilarious Jb. You can imagine the narrative I grew up with from the 70s onwards re financing Irish preservation, and the need to actually pay for the trains that one liked to photograph.....

Great stuff Angus. Nice to see it coming to life again!

That can’t have helped, but it seems to have been their contract engineering business that dragged them down. Read the Patriot new-build forum to see what kind of work the Llangollen chaps had been churning out - it wasn’t always top notch to put it mildly

That’s a fine job indeed that he’s done. Should be well pleased with that. Good old fashioned make it yourself modelling.

Very nice indeed. Shows what’s possible in a small space

He’d be a keen advocate of 1:76 Hi-Ace vans IIRC.

Lovely work as ever Eoin. Appropriate photo was posted on Ernie’s archive today....

One of the most interesting aspects of Eire’s rather odd neutrality. There was, strictly speaking, no need to make the signs distinct from one another by numbering them. All that was required was the national name to discourage overflight. If you had a chart with the numbers on them, as the RAF did, it wouldn’t simply tell you that you were over Eire, but also exactly where over Eire you were..... DeV and Churchill’s public spat in 1945 concealed a great deal of subtle co-operation.

Thanks Ken. That’s the only part of the scene that was bought in and isn’t home made- it’s a Marcway crossover! I’m selling the F6 to pay for another tank, which I think you will like

Built from an Alphagraphix kit. Good runner. Specially finished as No42 with smoke box clips and lifting rings on tanks. Real coal in bunker. £225 inc delivery. Can be regauged to 32mm.

Funnily enough JB, my dad recalls a trip to Dublin c1960 with Mac Arnold to chase an ex GN JT on an excursion out the MGW main. Wonder what else he saw that day....

Model Engine Works have some products which may be of interest....specifically mentions OOn3 https://www.shapeways.com/shops/model-engine-works?page[number]=2&page[limit]=48&page[order]=asc

That’s indeed the case, John. Very few 7mm suppliers have a shopping cart system online. The website is often a basic one and essentially an electronic catalogue. Many of these businesses operate on a very narrow profit margin and are cottage industries. Many of the suppliers have other jobs and basically offer their modelling business as a useful service to fellow modellers. This business model works much better at scale specific trade shows, which are a scratchbuilders dream - a huge hall full of useful bits you can discuss with the trader in person. Quite how it will work in future is unclear. Unless you have an all singing and dancing website like Laurie Griffin, online sales of,say, tiny brass fittings in small volumes is not easy.

That’ll be my younger brother Jim. He’s the one with the garden railway ! Here’s a Welshpool and Llanfair loco on his old line....with authentic Fermanagh weather.

Rivets - all too familiar to me George! Nice job you have made of them. Some gentle weathering will really make them ‘pop’.

Try this, Jim ndriveproductions@yahoo.com

That’s the case, yes. Some of the card buildings may be 4mm.

It’s a flat sheet of card that you cut out and stick together / old school modelling. Generally it makes up the wagon body and floor, to which you add the metal buffers and running gear. Many of us use them as templates to build more solid plasticard ones. But here’s one I built straight from the packet a few years ago, as my first 5’ 3” wagon. Plus photo of what a kit looks like, and a plasticard wagon using Roger’s kit as a drawing.

Now those look the business !

In the world of 7mm small suppliers, that is a warp speed change! It’s good to see Roger taking steps in this direction - he’s a great friend to Irish modelling.

They are a huge asset. I have built several of his brass kits and use his coloured card kits as templates for scratchbuilt stock. He’s branched out more into Col Stephens type stuff lately but if Irish modellers keep buying.....

His Irish range used to be bigger and you could effectively build a complete CBSC steam layout off his offerings - complete with the T and C !

My childhood flashes before me.....before those accursed 450 class abominations came along and the Larne line became a glorified tramway.