Billycan

Nice pointwork too.

Love the recycling - station canopy and pringles tub.

Happy Christmas everyone, Happy Christmas. And many thanks for sharing the photos, running the trains and posting the videos. Looking forward to more in 2024.

It was a Wednesday morning and the date was 17 December 1834. At 9:30am a train of carriages of the first, second and third class hauled by Hibernia departed Westland Row filled with passengers. The rest is history. If you have any words or pictures to share, today is the day.

Or perhaps this one Plate Girder Bridge Side – PECO (peco-uk.com)

Try F23 - both cab lights will show.

For the day that's in it.

Out and About on Bloomsday 2023 at WR&A Quoted text copyright The Joyce Project: Ulysses Touring Joyceans returned to their carriages to continue their funeral re-enactment.

Most would be proud to do one. But to do two is a new level. Nice.

James, You might think of your layout in terms of embankments and bridges over a streetscape. In that case railway bridges are about 17ft-0in above road level and that defines an important height for you including the trackbed in Harcourt Street station. If you are modelling with DCC Concepts or Tortoise your point motors will probably have to suit that height and you may have to increase the embankment height a little to accommodate them. You'll need to consider this in conjunction with building the embankment faces and whether off-the-shelf kit of predefined height will work or whether you will need to scratch build. Consider building the embankments and bridges in sections, starting with an easy one, so that you can learn as you go. If you keep the embankment sections short (max 6ft-0ins) with all of the electrics within them it becomes easy to lift one out if you need to do any work on it. No ducking under the supporting bench structure or lying on you back to do work. Think out the height of the line and your street levels from Harcourt Street to Foxrock. It starts at embankment height and descends to street level, then passes over the Milltown arches and back to street level. Maybe you could keep the trackbed horizontal and adjust the street levels between the different sections using the art of compromise as suggested by Seán. Think about modelling the street scenes at bench level and rising to track level. A track plan is an excellent suggestion. Buy a roll of lining wallpaper (about €2 in Dealz) and download the track templates from the PECO site. Create a track plan for your stations and other sections on the lining paper and you can easily orientate it in one piece to best fit your space. The PECO printable track templates code 100 should be at peco printable track templates code 100 - Search (bing.com) For the width and length you need OSI maps. Talk to your friendly librarian to see what might be available so that you can get accurate photocopies and then you can scale dimensions from those. Remember to record everything as you go. Photograph your work-in-progress and if working in DCC don't forget to document the addresses of all your point motors. If you can get trains running sooner rather than later all the better. Harcourt Street is a great station to model with arches, bridges, turntables, sheds, sidings for holding your fleet, and buildings. Take your time and enjoy the journey.

Modelling, story and music are on another level. Super.

Understand that alright. And what does this mean? There always has to be one doesn't there?

Don't understand that. So, given that orders for the Genesis coaches + lighting will easily exceed this €150 that seems to mean there will be hassle with the VAT?

I have received a number of parcels from different suppliers in the UK and all have been received without hassle. The goods arrive in Ireland free of UK VAT, An Post notify me in a card in a sealed envelope of what has arrived, who sent it and what charges are due, and I pay the Irish VAT and fee online. Straight forward and there has never been anything returned to the UK sender. So, perhaps Hattons are trying to be too helpful at this time and given that later this year the Genesis coaches will be arriving it might be wiser for Hattons to change their approach an row in with what works for the other UK exporters to Ireland. Just thinking out loud.

Nice to see the different viewing angle.

The head of the parade at Pearse Street Sponsor of the leading vehicles The drone was doing its job The local amateur performers on Westland Row Promoting their summer season More horses Another important entry for 2023 promoting Daffodil Day Thanks again to the drone The last of the parade A photo shoot after the parade And another. Thanks to a number of fellow modellers whose advice, ideas, and skills enhance these scenes.

A nice bright dry morning and a few photos from the early morning shoot. Health & Safety share Mark Street and Click Click taking a photo of the local theatre group Already buying ice cream Advertising for the upcoming event with a large entry in the parade Another promo photo for the local theatre group Looks like the photocrafting team got something sorted in time. Happy Saint Patrick's Day. Looks like it will be a great parade.

Just a few like these And they sent them along to the photocrafting team to see what they can do with them. A bit of magic needed to get that sorted. Perspective has to be removed, the trees and their reflections have to go, and so too have the lampposts and road signs. Then all scaled to 4mm and to fit into WR&A. They know they can do something. Click Click has been talking up the parade and has got himself a couple of early morning shoots, so he’ll be out and about early on 17th. Last year he did a promo photo for the local amateur theatre group, and they’ve asked him to do another this year. He’s really getting into the part himself and has a new kit for the day. You can’t miss him.

For the week that's in it. This is a popular photographer around here. His name is Kiernan and he’s the great great grandnephew of Barney Kiernan a licensed vintner who had a public house in these parts in the early 1900s. The pub was the scene of many an altercation over the years but there was one memorable one in 1904 that is still talked and written about. That was the day Throwaway won the Ascot Gold Cup. But that another day’s modelling. You hear Kiernan before you see him because he seems to have a habit of taking a few photos of you before you know he’s even there. A couple of shutter clicks and he has your photo. He’s known as Click Click Kiernan. He was out and about the other day in Pearse Street hoping for a photo that he could sell to the local newspaper or share with the local online community, and he spotted these lads (who look after the St. Patrick’s Day Parade) and one was taking photos. The camera around Click Click’s neck is his passport into all manner of places and conversations. What the story lads? Just taking a few photos so we can plan and prepare for the parade. Is the parade on this year? Of course it is, and there’s great excitement about it too. We been asked to put out more crowd barriers, so they’re expecting more people to be out. The local young fellas want to know if the old fire brigade will be out and one little girl asked if there would be horses this year. Some bloke has got himself a London Tram and that will be here, and the local amateur theatre group will be out promoting their summer production. Thanks, said Click Click, and off he went thinking to himself, that Naughton Institute might make a nice backdrop to some photos. Wonder who that Naughton fellow is? Some former student and sharing his success with the next generation perhaps. Good on him. Crazy glass building that. Seems to be always changing colour. The reflection is grey when the sky is overcast and blue when we have a nice clear sky. Must get the drone out and get some practice using it. You never know.

Excellent soundtrack too.

A short video of the restored J15 perhaps?

From the horses mouth. Lady in UK visited her post office with parcel of birthday present for grandchild in Ireland. Post Office lady said, Sorry we can accept that there's some problem with the Irish postal system. A case of, let blame someone else and we'll look good. I guess some folks aren't even aware of the concept of mushroom treatment. And now, a letter dated 27 January 2023 posted in UK received in Dublin this morning. Not too bad. Getting there.

These 2 scans from 'Memoirs of an Irish Auction House - GOFFS' give some insight. I suspect that many of the horses on the Kildare trains would have been destined for military use in the British Empire.

Received this morning. Was posted in the UK 13 Dec.

The challenge of some point motors First versions of the signal cabin and water tower. Signal cabin needs a second door on the right and water tower needs corrected entrance to show curved walls. Still in progress the cottages and houses at Erne Terrace Rear Embankment wall and bridge More work-in-progress graphics for station wall as viewed from inside the station (top) and outside (bottom). The outside view uses loads of modeller's licence but it doesn't matter bacause it can't be seen when finished.