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Shapeways prints fettled, detailed, and painted. Clogher Valley No4 ‘Fury’ and coach. Hopefully pass the 2’ rule. The driver is a Preiser TT German station master who is not at all happy to find himself demoted from Hauptbahnhof to hedge-hopping tramway !

Thanks Andy - hoping to have a stab at in TTN3; got a little Japanese power bogie that should work ….David

Hello - I know Railway Modeller did this in the 80s but don’t know when? Any ideas please ? I suspect @airfixfanor @Andy Cundickor @Colin Rmay know….thanks !!

Here’s Fred Dean’s Flickr image of Sligo …

The keys to good rattle can painting - when it’s the only option - are to warm the can - and the subject if metal. Shake the can for at least two minutes and never start or stop the spray on the model - press the button and then move the can across in light sweeps. Some day I will ask my son if I may use his airbrush….

Thanks JB -the clues were there if we’d only looked. They even admit to struggling with kit building and needing help: Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own

It’s 1932 all over again….but we can’t blame DeV this time!

Tutorial would be nice so the rest of us can see how you achieved such a great look!

They are pure class. Not the most detailed - ie less to break off ! But solid metal with well engineered mechanics. Will pull heavy trains reliably and are full of character. I’ve had a few before moving to O gauge.

Check out https://www.traintrax.co.uk This is Kato’s UK supplier. Great track packs etc with pre-wired points. Many modellers have successfully disguised the track bed with scenery. It’s a very reliable system and the motors are superb performers.

You’ve proved you can do it! Great effort. Serious books are worth it as they can actually prevent serious errors. My library and stock costs are probably on a par! Seriously, if you are seeking to model a prototype faithfully, someone else’s scholarship is worth buying in.

It’s very nice. Rather like what may have appeared had the LSW taken over the L and B and shrunk down an O2 or G6 to 2’ gauge.

Excellent David - although you’re giving me flashbacks !! It is a most exacting task and I remember a lot of fettling, filing and filleting too- nice job you’ve done though.

Thanks JB. Was particularly interested in how they managed single line permissions in that scenario - eg ETS/ tablet etc

What was the signalling for that JB? That’s my plan for ‘Drumkeeran Road’ but I’d like to do it prototypically….

Now that lifts the game. One of the most neglected aspects of our little worlds are the vertical dimensions. Charlie Insley’s Caher Patrick grabs the eye with its street scene as it has an oft neglected scenic detail - telephone and utility wires crossing the road at first floor level. That wiring you have in the bottom picture hints at miles more offstage. The framing shows us what we should be looking at. Great stuff all round.

Having said that Ernie, Peco have been running out of track so we may not be out of the woods ourselves!

Looking forward to seeing the pics- Iain Rice’s ‘Cameo layouts’ book talks about how we often neglect this ‘presentational aspect’.

By the looks of your soldering David I did a lot more grumbling! That’s not an easy task but you’ve made it come out well.

Thanks - I’m in touch with that gent ! It was June 2003. Mark Fisher has also done some nice stuff http://s116425720.websitehome.co.uk/MemberLayouts/FinnegansCrossing/FinnegansCrossing.htm The advent of 3D printing has opened up a lot of stuff on Shapeways in TTN3, so it’s a good time to start. You’re right though - should be more popular than it is!

Dragged on a few weeks now but more or less finished this West Clare Drewry railcar. Worsley Works etches provided sides ends and floor, most of the latter being cut away to fit in a little Kato motor. It’s far from perfect but runs like a dream. Finished in weathered GS colours. It’s small compared to a 7mm coach !

Not to mention the gauge issue ! 9mm track scales out at 4’5”; too narrow really for ‘English’ trains never mind 5’3”. Although it’s still closer to Irish scale than OO Gauge and its scale 4.125 foot track Seriously though, you need to weigh up what kind of railway you want. Having modelled in 2, 3, 4, 7 and 16mm scales, the general rule for indoor or shed layouts (garden railways change the rule) is that the smaller the scale, the more emphasis there is on a sweep of landscape with less emphasis on the rolling stock. It allows for longer trains, sweeping curves, and a real sense of place. As the scale gets bigger, the trains themselves dominate your field of view. The emphasis on detail gets greater, but it’s harder to find space for depth of scenic development. N gauge has got exceptionally sophisticated since I first encountered it 40 plus years ago. But OO gauge has a wider manufacturing base (in the U.K. outline area at least) and will always be easier to acquire. Nothing to stop you trying out a simple layout in N to see how it goes !

Now that’s modelling!

Excellent. Nothing quite like doing your own stuff to a model and seeing it turn out well.

Great- looks right at home in that setting!