Galteemore

He’s also been known to appear in blue and green …

I’ll keep a lid on it.

Excellent- shades of how the old GN butter vans were turned out?

Could not agree more. Get some cereal packets and have a go at cutting out rectangles. A large flat one, two short ones and two long ones - you have a flat wagon carcass.

Well done. More power to you!!

Horses for courses. Like Mr H, my only partial regret for going down the 36.75 route is that I can’t run my stock on an O gauge test track at a local club as I don’t have a layout right now. And would I really enjoy running it at shows as a guest on a GW branchline layout or LMS main line ? I don’t ever buy RTR stock and am happy building my own stuff. It’s as easy to build that to 36.75 as it is to 32. I will have to learn how to churn out 36.75mm turnouts, and that’s about the only downside. I have no plans to build a large layout so 36.75 mm works for me. In any case, Peco o gauge track is bullhead so for authentic Irish FB I’d have to build my own anyway…..Got to say that planting my first 36.75 scratch loco on Belmullet 18 months ago was well worth all the effort!!

It’s an interesting figure, as it’s about 5mm actual discrepancy give or take in OO , O and gauge 1. OO gauge is about 25% underscale for 5’3”. In gauge 1 that shrinks to 10%.

Agree with all of the above. Iain Rice would have used this layout in his books as an example of the standard to aim at.

That top photo is calling out for a caption Ernie. ‘that oul PP behind us was a lot more reliable!’

Totally agree. It’s a lovely idea but the small size of NI (and the airport) make it uneconomic, I think.

Good plan. You could gently sand the lining down. Or just strip the body in a bucket of dettol or IPA and start over. I recently did this to an MGW van which time travelled from CIE to MGW livery…..the danger of overpainting is that you can blur the sharp finish of the model with too many coats.

Marcway.

Here’s some of mine.

Code 100

Hi Patrick. I think that the UG would indeed look better in plain black with that lovely ‘GNR’ on the tender. Sadly, it’s not the same tender type as UG No 79, which was uniquely turned out of Dundalk with passenger loco style ‘G N ‘ and crest !!

That would be delightful! He did also of course build some splendid tank engines..

That would kill off the railtour industry

Not the comfy chair !

Sweet dreams…..

Some of it is here https://www.lner.info/locos/O/o4o5.php

Great stuff Patrick. Always a relief when the wheels turn properly again! Might you consider swapping out the red water bag for a dun-coloured one? The rest of the scene is so nicely muted that such a small change might help it blend in even more.

Peter’s Spares ? https://www.petersspares.com/

Commercially available from Regner…..https://www.gardenrailways.co.uk/regner-255901-guinness-no12.html

Yes, it’s odd, given that, unusually for an industrial railway, it always had a tourist dimension in its heyday.