It also explains how you can visit Portadown and Derry in the same day without recoiling in horror
Looks fabulous David. Might grab some ideas for the GN/SLNC joint line layout that seems to be inexorably marching my direction
Great work John. Those live steam models are worth looking after as they do age well. This is my brother’s 0-6-0T out for a run last month,35 years old now.
What also helps, as with Peter Denny, John Ahern and indeed your own stuff David, is that everything on the layout from locos to buildings is painted by the same eye, so to speak. This gives a natural blending from the get go.
Thanks @Mol_PMB - quite agree. I’m just coming at it from the perspective of a scratchbuilder and someone conscious of his own mortality An IRM C class could be 5 years off….
Nice view of SLNC bay. Unusual to capture a GN shunt over there. Notice it’s a mixed rake with SLNC stock. The pic will have been taken early afternoon as the 1115 goods from Sligo has arrived - this is probably the 1:45 railbus. The combat indicator for this timing is the coach sitting in the bay. This means that the 7:20 to Sligo will be steam tonight
Great effort - well done. Nice to see the homegrown range of Irish models on show too. As for the loco itself, you will always get satisfaction from building it and putting your stamp on it. To paraphrase an old Chinese dictum, the craftsman who makes a cabinet has a deeper joy than the collector who buys it.