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  1. Galteemore
    Sorry - that’s the bit about scratchbuilding that no one tells you….you become both a perfectionist and your own worst critic!! Looks good to me. As does the GN coach lurking in the rear !!
  2. Galteemore
    Nice, if sad picture of @David Holman’s Wolf Dog.
  3. Galteemore
    Looks wonderful!
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    Nice scene - looks well. Look forward to hearing more about the carriage. Have the loco crew jumped off anticipating a crash ?
  5. Galteemore
    In Cardiff Bay today, where ships were controlled by semaphore signals…..some still have arms but not these ones. I’m presuming they’ve found a home at the nearby rugby stadium…,,
  6. Galteemore
    Excellent work. One of the delights of this forum is to see people making Irish models from scratch, and this is a lovely model. Totally agree - I’d have badged mine up as G N too! I’d like to know more about the trimming plane please as I have some major plastic work coming up.
  7. Galteemore
    I found Drew’s obit in FFT
  8. Galteemore
    I’d try the swap route first myself…..
  9. Galteemore
    Although Bulmers made a significant contribution to the UK preservation scene. All those apples didn’t die in vain. https://www.kentrail.org.uk/bulmer_cider_train.htm
  10. Galteemore
    You want to be well pleased with that. Beautifully finished off. It looks like a kit that you have had professionally built - inside and out. That opening scene could almost be Donaghadee harbour siding. The noise thing seems to be a feature of the recording process - mine always sound worse too!
  11. Galteemore
    Special ‘fly away’ ring pulls.
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    The LRM axles are good classic technology, but the jig lifts things to another level. I have a 7mm one from Hobby Holidays that is worth its weight in gold.
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    Jigs and rolling bars. There’s an answer to everything ! In all seriousness it’s nowhere near as hard as people think. You can probably get rods from a 4mm supplier. Use them to mark out the axle holes and drill. Poppy’s Wood Tech do a 4mm jig which will hold it all together while you solder it. It’s possible to get a running chassis without any fettling that way. As for boiler, brass or plastic tube if you don’t fancy rolling one.
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    Interesting how those little Victorian 2-4-2Ts, both GN and GSWR, lasted almost to the end. I wonder if 42 showed her legendary paces on those Kingsbridge -Inchicore passenger workings she used to do in between pilot turns. In north Dublin, JT no 91 was doing similar work up until 63, I think, having been retrieved from the loco dump at Dundalk. I built 42 a few years ago, but she now resides in the USA!
  16. Galteemore
    Got to be the BCDR’s speed machine next . The famous No 6…..seen here before her transformative Belpaire firebox went in.
  17. Galteemore
    It will. Generally speaking enamel on acrylic works ok but don’t try the other way round!
  18. Galteemore
    They only had the deflectors later in life JB under SR management. Were delivered like that.
  19. Galteemore
    It is rather puzzling to see that the chassis in the OP seems to have no spacers. Is there anything holding the frames apart, @Westcorkrailway? Looks almost as if the whole thing is being held together by the axles.
  20. Galteemore
    It could be an old photo JB, but if you want to read the article he wrote it’s in that 1976 mag ! It’s about clockwork mechanisms, funnily enough. Or could we be seeing the airbrushing and filtering of railway modellers at an early stage? Was this a trend we started that the Kardashians followed?
  21. Galteemore
    A copy of ‘Model Railways’ has just appeared on eBay, the one which features Drew himself on the cover, from May 76. What I think is his Meccano-based rivet machine is also in view!
  22. Galteemore
    Ok. Have you any J26 drawings to hand? Sounds like an ideal chance to try your hand at plasticard scratch building.
  23. Galteemore
    Seems a shame when the foundations are there.,Is the footplate etch present? The tanks are square rather than rounded so easy enough to scratch. Chimney and domes are straightforward enough to source in the 4mm market - I think some GW tyoes might be close.
  24. Galteemore
    What’s missing from the rest of the kit ? Makes sense to build it as a J26 and scratch up the missing bits ? The chassis is the most difficult part of any build. If that’s sound (and it looks it), may as well just finish it as the designer intended!
  25. Galteemore
    Please post what you find. It’s something I use a fair bit!
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