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  1. Galteemore
    Poles apart from my modelling interest ....
  2. Galteemore
    Nice little layout -a good basis for making a small scenic setting with some operation.
  3. Galteemore
    Funny how taste goes. The millionaire racing driver Captain Howey, who built and owned the Romney Hythe and Dymchurch Railway, visited Barnstaple when the disposal auction for the L and B was taking place. As his biographer noted, he was probably the only person there who could have purchased the whole lot outright. However, he looked at the locos and dismissed them as ‘dreadful things with long funnels’ and walked away.....
  4. Galteemore
    Here’s a hint of an answer, David. From an earlier post by Angus, linked to Mike Morant’s photo site.....
  5. Galteemore
    Well quite. I well remember seeing 186 when it was first repainted like that. It just looked wrong, and yet it was actually quite accurate....
  6. Galteemore
    Don’t even need an airbrush to start. Can do a lot with powders and MIG oilbrushers too....sorry - some repetition here : Noel was writing as I was thinking !
  7. Galteemore
    And IIRC it’s one of those that still sits on an RPSI siding, still in that livery. Would be a nice project in plasticard.
  8. Galteemore
    When I spent some time in the late 90s immersed in the English PRO at Kew, it really was blokes in green smock coats who brought you the files....
  9. Galteemore
    And I think that was really the point of the GSR design rather than speed, which has never really been a thing in Ireland as it is in England (as I see frequently, living near the WCML).
  10. Galteemore
    A P2 is preserved at Whitehead. Camera shy though!
  11. Galteemore
    I do have my copy of a Decade of Steam to hand, @leslie10646 and according to Bill McDonnell 801 was the speediest of the trio. This may of course refer to acceleration rather than actual max speed. Drew suggests that the 800s never really got the opportunity to show their true mettle. On 17 Mar 1940, he got 88 with Maedbh between Ballybrophy and Thurles. The engine ‘just ran away’ with the six bogies according to Driver Foley. Drew leaves the strong impression that higher speeds could have been gained had a serious effort been made (as on the LMS and LNER) to push the locos hard.
  12. Galteemore
    NIce work. Something a little different to run in between regular consists.
  13. Galteemore
    Fantastic. Can almost hear it....lovely job
  14. Galteemore
    Hornby R912. Only purchase it if you want to have a complete boxed set - there are much better controllers out there if you want to run it!! Here’s one anyway....there may well be cheaper ones. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/164368260209
  15. Galteemore
    Plenty of time yet George. The RAF officially commemorates BoB the Sunday after 15th Sep. But nicely remembered. The last BoB pilot alive is actually an Irishman and is living in Dublin at the age of over 100- Gp Capt Hemingway DFC
  16. Galteemore
    EBay seems to have a few ...
  17. Galteemore
    To be honest, I think the prototypical original livery is the culprit here - it does not scale down well perhaps - and certainly doesn’t lend itself to detail and contrast. The decorated samples of the 121 look fantastic in B and T but this anaemic greyness does them no favours. Some subtle weathering of panel lines etc will quickly bring out the true greatness of the model and blend the handrails in.
  18. Galteemore
    Deserves to be a member of Aosdána for service to Irish culture !
  19. Galteemore
    Looks terrific Ken. Such an elegant loco. Lovely paint job too!
  20. Galteemore
    Having seen the real things daily on my school commute, I get the point, and they could have earned an honest crust at Downpatrick. They were rather odd little things though, and not really classic or representative of Ulster traction. A greater loss in that sense was the old MPD unit (64 I think) that hung around York Road at the same time.
  21. Galteemore
    What a brilliant photo. Really good view of how the station was split by the roadway. Much of scene still recognisable today. I think the tank farm is now a car park. Olderfleet Hotel bottom left sat derelict for many years before demolition-a small portion remains.
  22. Galteemore
    Panzer grey. Funnily enough, this is a subject WW2 modellers also debate.....
  23. Galteemore
    Great - thanks. I’d looked at Panzer paint and wondered - my next GSR loco will be ‘Guderian grau’......
  24. Galteemore
    They had Lobitos rail tanks on the big island - I had one in 7mm when I modelled GB stuff! My wife is a Larne girl and my parents in law still live there. My father in law certainly remembers LOBITOS slogan from his youth ‘Less Oil Better Ignition TOp Speed...’ AFAIK oil by rail was never a big thing in NI. I remember an oil tank wagon which sat at York Road for years but think that was company related and not commercial. There was War Department traffic to a fuel siding near Tillysburn but I’m not sure what the actual flow of traffic was.
  25. Galteemore
    Fantastic work David! I’m a big fan of D-Limonene for such work. Any tips on how you did the louvres please ?
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