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No worries Alan. Let’s just say it resonated with something I’ve done myself

Alan - just admiring this again, but noticed one of the cab handrails is adrift? Makes it look as if rear bunker is askew….

GW chimneys seem a fair bet. Maybe a Dean Goods or similar ? TBH I think you could get off with the 14xx one near enough…,

Here’s a pic of Tim Cramer’s drawing. With 7mm ruler for scale.

Enlisting in @Tullygrainey @Horsetanand @Mol_PMB’s J26 club. The excitement of opening an Alphagraphix package and enjoying what’s inside. Also got the research books out / and a very useful article by Tim Cramer which will help with the bunker extension needed for my little beastie which will be 558 the Sligo pilot…..even though it means l’ll have to ditch the lovely etched plates Roger has provided as she had painted numbers in my era. Prototype pic (when she retired to Dublin) from Ernie.

Looks fabulous Alan. Characterful loco. As for the brakes, just be glad it’s internal rods

What a lovely little thing. And by some accounts the most successful GSR internal combustion experiment! Such a shame it wasn’t saved, but would be fairly simple to build a replica…,

Designed to carry the infirm on pilgrimage trains to Claremorris (for Knock Shrine) https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2312188505670533&set=gm.1195432550610101&type=3&theater&ifg=1

Prob direct sales

A fair number in the companion GSWR book, but these vary enormously in utility for modelling purposes - not all are dimensioned. @seagoebox will be able to advise!

Exciting news of a new volume on MGWR locos. This will be a corker. Released next week : preorder from Transport Treasury

Quick and simple project - create an SLNC lorry out of an old Solido Citroen. Everything stripped and repainted. Converted to RH drive too! No photos survive of SL lorry fleet that I have seen but here’s an interpretation based on their bus livery. Little bit of tidying up to do but almost there.

That’s terrific work - well done. For longevity I think wire would work well for those corner pillars.

Wow just wow. But I know my limits. It’s most interesting and I’d love to know the story behind it. The builder clearly envisaged it as being in pre-20s form; capped chimney and green paint….

That’s a very nice patina indeed. Even the smallest and least ‘accurate’ live steam loco of this kind has to be very well engineered to work at all. Much as I dislike that light green, whoever put hundreds of hours into making it has my respect !

Make sure @jhb171achill sees that GWR livery. He loves faithful livery interpretations like that

Very nice. The ‘see-through’ frames are a big part of the original’s look so worth doing. I had made BlackLion’s inner tender frames as solid strips but it really changed the loco’s appearance for the worse, so I fretted some space which made a huge aesthetic difference

I’ve got a 7mm kit just arrived. I’m in….

Great video Patrick. Fabulous model but think a backscene would finish it off !

Nice work. Wish I’d thought of that window bar idea when doing my Sligo tank !

559 gets my vote. Those W and T cabs must have been comfy but are aesthetically horrible !

Thanks everyone. I may try and get her running some day but at least I have another 4-4-0 which scratches the itch. And am working on another …..

In case is of any help, here’s some cab interior views of the one I built about 5 years ago

Very atmospheric. And the best CIE livery of all