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Galteemore

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  1. I think a change of diet too if it’s making noises like that !
  2. And a most useful development for Irish modellers seeking to do 4 mm scale 3’ gauge …..will be loads of useful bits and pieces now….as a former 3mm scale modeller I thoroughly recommend 3mm Society membership btw….
  3. Also bear in mind that many sidings and lesser lines were ballasted with ash rather than stone. Chris Nevard has a good technique worth googling.
  4. Excellent stuff. Loads of variety in the Scandinavian scene - have enjoyed some trips in that region.
  5. Very nice indeed. Adding a smokebox door wheel might help the illusion further.
  6. 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
  7. Well, quite. That last photo is simply fabulous.
  8. I have seen a few round Cardiff and the Greater London area in recent months on ‘company’ duty.
  9. 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
  10. 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.
  11. Nicely sets the scene at that end David. Subtle work as ever.
  12. It’s Castlebar’s new metro system
  13. 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.
  14. Lovely work. Totally agree re pillar drill. Essential tool - certainly for 7mm.
  15. Worth joining. Their online shop is great - both cheap and efficient.
  16. Excellent work. Nice tip too, re the corners. Bit more space saving than shallow angle coving would be!
  17. 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.
  18. The perils and delights of trying to model a real place !
  19. How lovely that black looks when clean! Awful headboard though!!
  20. 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.
  21. 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
  22. Sounds like scope for some wonderful challenges as to how far one could get on such a ticket!
  23. That’s the great thing about modelling - always something else you can be getting on with ! Looking good so far
  24. That’s great work. More info on the diorama/layout please?
  25. Allman’s in Bandon had one a little like it, an E class later absorbed by the GSR. @jhb171achillposted an image in January
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