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Don't do this. Look for some calibration prints and take the time to do them properly, tweaking settings until they turn out perfect. Its rubbish because you wsnt to make actual models, but the recommended settings in my experience don't ever work. Something like the ameralabs town or the cones of calibration https://ameralabs.com/blog/town-calibration-part/ https://www.tableflipfoundry.com/3d-printing/the-cones-of-calibration-v3/ Also make sure you have a consistent tempetature over 20°C for printing. Your resin, mixes of resin, age of resin, age of screen/uv lights all make the exposure time shift a bit, so learning to calibrate properly will really help as basically your printer will perform a little differently to everyone elses. Might be worth slowing the retraction speed/time a little too. A lot of the youtube videos on this sort of stuff are 90% unwatchable rubbish, but there is good information and tips in the other 10%

A 1:1 scale J26 would be popular.

The Y7 was done in FUD. The laser sintered nylon can't produce detail or dimensions accurately enough for small scales - i only allowed WSF printing for my models in 1/24 and bigger, basically because the price was enormous in other materials. Agreed - i made fittings from my NG designs available separately to help people. I started by designing one small bagnall, then realised that the manufacturers had used the exact same cylinders, smokebox door, chimney, steam turret/safety valves, reverser, backhead, tank fillers etc on several designs, so I made a few more - for example all the steam locos at groudle glen (240t, 042t, 040st) are essentially the same parts and fittings rearranged, and there were other variations on that theme built for elsewhere. There wasn't really a source of 7mm, 1/32 or 1/24 small bagnall, couillet or O&K fittings, which had previously frustrated me when scratchbuilding, so I sprued them up and made them available. They certainly turn out better than many commercial white metal castings I've had.

Did that in 2012. Etched rods intended for a LBSCR terrier (which is 6'+6', whereas the Y7 is just 6'). Body and chassis were sprued together for shapeways. Designed for brass bearing inserts and gibson wheels. Motor bracket is printed in to mesh accurately with a bevel gear on the axle. Sandpipes and brake rigging etc. Were added from brass rod. Obviously i chose an inside framed 040t as it's simpler, but it worked as proof of concept. No reason why something bigger wouldn't work, obviously you're adding complexity and potential shrinkage troubles, but once you get settings dialled in it should be ok.

The piers/breakwaters at the mouth of the Tyne both have rails in them: But we're never connected to anything else (well, the south one connected to the quarry just down the coast, blocks for the north pier were taken by rail to a jetty on the river and barged across, then by rail down the pier). So far as im aware, rail mounted cranes of a wider gauge and wagons to move stone/concrete blocks for building and repairing it was the only use for them. I think Tanfield railway has one of the block wagons and the grab, the ruston survives in scotland. the track on the pier was in use (or at least intact) into the 70s or 80s I think. This is interesting reading: https://southshieldslocalhistorygroup.co.uk/index.php/buildings/structures/piers/ And then scroll down for photos of loco workings here: https://southshieldslocalhistorygroup.co.uk/index.php/transport/railways/ Thry had a ruston 48ds and a peckett similar to the hornby model, there's an interesting prototype for a model! Of course this isnt an Irish example, but a good account with photos of the building of two breakwaters a mile out into the sea, presumably methods were similar.

I think the hunslet archives are at statfold barn. Perhaps worth asking there with the works number so they can search the drawing register. They have an archivist, and there is a charge for drawings, but they'll tell you how much upfront.

Maybe you could use the kit to make one of the pair the Rio Tinto had in Spain? 3'6" gauge. In fairness, at the time I recall it was advertised as being possible to build it to 009 with outside frames.

I'm sure they'll mention those when they announce the extension to burtonport...

Not a bad plan, notwithstanding an obvious error at the lower right, where you've inexplicably forgotten to mention the Donegal baltic tank and swilly 484t...

It's good news for those of us who can't be bothered with lettering/numbering our stock.

I think that centralising stuff in one location gives you a better chance - not competing for grants, volunteers, visitors etc and should have economies of scale with the overheads. A shame that things are quite fragmented with the 3' in the North too.

Looks about the length of the tracklaying train. Also the roadbed underneath it doesn't look as well prepared/ballasted - perhaps a temporary siding for construction only, to be removed later?

One should always pick a correct species for the area and model/paint accordingly. It's jarring to biologists to see inappropriate species depicted on layouts.

Nope. The license costs a lot and the IP owners enjoy a bit of legal action.

From what I've seen I'm not sure Bord na Mona have 50m of straight and level track to sell you, and I'd worry that the loco would never have been tested on such a thing!