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Great stuff - looks like Enniskillen cleaners have been at 101! Think it’s 41, though, as she has brackets on tank front that 42 didn’t have. See this image from Mike Morant https://mikemorant.smugmug.com/Trains-Railways-British-Isles/Irish-railways/Irish-railway-archive-3/i-76RJTpt

Well, quite. That last photo is simply fabulous.

I have seen a few round Cardiff and the Greater London area in recent months on ‘company’ duty.

Brilliant. On the whole, CIE narrow gauge locos seem to have been kept quite clean up until those last few years. 12 looked very different in 1959

I did a bit of trial and error here. I made the main structure from card, used quoins from plasticard and then gave the quoins a little skim over with a thin layer of DAS to give texture. But there’s a number of ways to skin this particular cat….as you’re finding out. Looking good though.

Nicely sets the scene at that end David. Subtle work as ever.

It’s Castlebar’s new metro system

Learned about clamping the hard way when a set of loco frames broke loose at a thousand plus rpm. I was lucky to escape with grazes. Any chance of a close up on your suspension system, please @Northroader? Sounds an ideal fix.

Lovely work. Totally agree re pillar drill. Essential tool - certainly for 7mm.

Worth joining. Their online shop is great - both cheap and efficient.

Excellent work. Nice tip too, re the corners. Bit more space saving than shallow angle coving would be!

Yes, wouldn’t find them in a location where passengers would cross them. As @murphaphremarks, sometimes to be found in yards where the route switching is essentially predictable and the turnout will only ever operate in a certain sequence.IIRC Shane’s Castle 3’ line had a similar set up to allow quicker run round.

The perils and delights of trying to model a real place !

How lovely that black looks when clean! Awful headboard though!!

Interesting one. How thick is the card ? I would try dry brushing something like Vallejo stucco, or gesso, which will also give a very fine textured surface. I used it on Florencecourt and then painted over it. You could also just paint it up slowly in layers of dry brush acrylic of your chosen shade.That will dry very fast and shouldn’t warp or distort the card. A quick waft of primer shouldn’t hurt - one or two quick passes with the can should be ok.

That’s great stuff David - must have been great seeing trains running on it despite all the grief. Funnily enough I read the Dickens book during lockdown, and had been aware of your layout - I did wonder if you’d drawn inspiration from it! It was of course a place of great political division - never have that problem in an Irish setting

Sounds like scope for some wonderful challenges as to how far one could get on such a ticket!

That’s the great thing about modelling - always something else you can be getting on with ! Looking good so far

That’s great work. More info on the diorama/layout please?

Allman’s in Bandon had one a little like it, an E class later absorbed by the GSR. @jhb171achillposted an image in January

Thanks Thanks David - and Belmullet’s station building proved very helpful in seeing how the project should come together ….

Thanks David. As luck would have it, I have those 2 in a batch someone gave me. I had a good chat with Richard Ellis at Kettering trade show a few months ago and saw some of his own stuff- very tempting. Perhaps you have an ‘Enniskillen’ in progress on the bench ?

That’s wonderful David. Lovely atmosphere, and the whole mise en scene blends in together so well. What are the MRJ issues please ? The SLNC loco looks fab with the red rods and nameplates, but I suspect it’s Fermanagh rather than Enniskillen;)

Great stuff, Patrick. Will add a nice variety of tone to the composition.

Have more or less finished Florencecourt’s building. Thankfully the original still stands - if a little changed since 57, which helps check that it looks right. I had the huge privilege of walking round the site earlier this year, and filling in some gaps in my knowledge with help from the owner. Here’s some pics of the model, the original, and a painting by David Briggs. A bit more weathering will be done when I get the layout advanced and install the building. The wash house chimney will be stuck down in due course - it’s a bit wonky here. And yes, the original station notice boards were LMS ones, as study of other photos has revealed! The GNRI one does look very low, but again, that is just how it was. All boxed up now in a plastic container to keep the dust off till I build the layout …