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  1. Galteemore
    Jon is a legend in the 7mm Signal world. You can see why...... .
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    Glad you learned from my mistakes David! Both looking excellent.
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    Yes, Ernie, I suppose the Manx Electric, and the Grimsby system are the closest parallels in these islands to interurbans. Although it could be said that the Dalkey route trams were rather special and relatively unusual for these islands, being bogie vehicles.https://en.sporvognsrejser.dk/other/howth-national-transport-museum-postkort-05
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    Lovely stuff. Even inspired a quick research trawl on Willwood/Crosse and Blackwell....http://builtdublin.com/factory-26-kings-inns-street-dublin-1/
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    Stunning work as ever, David. Very nicely finished off. The fireman looks suitably resigned to the prospect of a hard slog to the main line!
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    George - just to give the whole package...Here’s the vice @Georgeconna
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    TBM 220 comes alone George. There is a cheap vice available. But for precision you really need the compound table and steel vice. I also upgraded to a Roehm Chuck which makes swapping drill bits easier than using the supplied collets.
  8. Galteemore
    Long story short, @David Holman! I have recently made my first small steps in metal scratchbuilding as opposed to plastic work. I quickly discovered that the Archimedes drill does not cut nickel silver sheet quickly or efficiently! I discovered that many modellers use a small pillar drill. I’d fought shy of this before as I thought it would be bulky and not really of much value to my needs. This one is ideal though - it’s a Proxxon TBM220 with compound table. It’s already proved its worth. As for the new project, I’ll hopefully be able to post an update this week.
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    We’ll know it’s time to worry, Eoin, if he comes on here saying ‘gwan fellas, paint your locos whatever colour ye like, is no odds to me’.
  10. Galteemore
    The way my modelling went this afternoon I’m happy to look for a while George! Steeling myself for attempt No 3....
  11. Galteemore
    Your wish is my command, Mr H - next project under way. Although this one is an altogether bigger job...done under the watchful eye of the Collooney station staff in the background...
  12. Galteemore
    This is very nicely done. The transition between ballast and trackside verdancy is spot on.
  13. Galteemore
    Cheers MM. They are Methfix transfers from the Historical Model Railway Society - 1920s Southern Railway. The labels such as ‘guard’ and ‘third‘ are straightforward. But producing ‘SLNC’ means cutting out individual letters from the ‘Southern Railway’ carriage transfers. There is if course, no letter C in that phrase. So I took the letter ‘o’ and sliced a chunk out. It was a fiddly job...
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    This was meant to be a quick fill in project but I think we are finally done after 3 weeks! R W Sparks’ 1920s rebuild of 6w saloon No 4 awaits her loco in the evening sun....loads of mistakes made and lessons learned. It’s not perfect by any means. But for a first effort at an SLNC coach I am not completely disheartened. The real No 4 makes an appearance in an @Irishswissernie shot ..seen here at Enniskillen. This one also made it behind the platform - echoing how the SLNC 6w were stored at Manorhamilton, and where the real no 4 spent much of her last years.
  15. Galteemore
    One 7mm card kit is available to start you off...Alphagraphix, naturally. It’s for one of the bogie coaches which started on the Ballymena - Larne ‘boat train’, then ended up in Donegal via Ballycastle. An ideal way to start scratchbuilding with that as a drawing to help you.
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    Very nice. Looks like Ballymoney from the small bits of background visible
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    Just been reading the summer 1951 IRRS journal (it has a wonderful account of the SLNC by its chief engineer) and the ‘news’ section records that the CDRJC had only initially acquired one of the corridor coaches on trial as ‘great difficulty’ was anticipated in adjusting buffer height etc....
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    Very nice. Looks like a Leinster kit, the way it’s set out!
  19. Galteemore
    No need! This was perhaps one of the most well appointed coaches on the NG in these islands. Corridor stock so no compartments. Also had electric lights and a toilet IIRC.
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    Lovely JHB! Make sure you’re finished in time to catch the 7:20 back from EKN - I heard that the bogie passenger coach No 9 was worked back on the mid-morning goods from Sligo so it’s guaranteed to be steam tonight !
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    It’s 1954 and we’re just waiting for the Sligo mail to leave....beautiful
  22. Galteemore
    Beautiful - what a little jewel that is.
  23. Galteemore
    My dad thinks it may be a working over the Meath Road during the Tolka Bridge episode when the GNR main line was temporarily disrupted.
  24. Galteemore
    Worth a look - he’s got a Leinster models ‘Maedbh’ amongst other things. I bought a coach kit in an earlier auction and he refunded some postage which was rather decent. Must have been some collection - he seems to have had at least one of everything produced by Alphagraphix and North Star!
  25. Galteemore
    Thanks Angus. It’s my first attempt at building a passenger coach so happy enough so far. It’s based on an Alphagraphix kit as the drawing source.
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