Phil3150

1 hour ago, BosKonay said:

Three in a pack means just €26 each with free post when you buy two or more (one of each type?) and 3% cash back in points. When larger market UK 4 wheel wagons from others are £35 + each we are working the volumes hard to make these as good value as we can. 

I'm certainly not complaining about the price - they are excellent value - it's simply that I don't need three of each. I'll certainly look into the Swapmeet possibilites.

This is so frustrating. I am collecting bits and pieces for what I have dubbed my "retirement home layout". Hopefully its many years away but it will be a micro layout and I would love one of these, a corrugated open or two and maybe a flat but I will not need or have space for sets of three of each. If only there was a mix-and-match method of buying them ..................

I got some transfers from him last month - no problem

Broken wheel x 2 for me please, Leslie.

Looking good Mayner. It looks like the Bawnboy Road version will look something like yours. It needs some detailing before being paired with one of Simon de Souza's chassis.

Phil

11 hours ago, Broithe said:

I remember them arriving, in an era when there were Belfasts, Argosies and Beverleys around.

It was about the time that Transport Command became Air Support Command - a move that kept signwriters happy for a few years.

It was also the time when I canoed down the Thames in a two-man vessel with RAF Transport Command emblazoned amusingly down both sides.

Even for a two-man vessel, these canoes were fairly enormous and drew some attention, especially over the identification down the sides.

We managed to convince one bloke in a riverside pub that they had actually been converted from experimental floats intended to allow a Beverley to land on water.

And, to be fair, with both of us paddling, we were probably faster than a Beverley...

It ages us, but my wife had just started working at Marshalls of Cambridge when the first RAF Hercules arrived for fitting out in 1966 before entering service. She still calls them 'her' planes.

4 hours ago, Colin R said:

Hi Guys i think we may be going into the black hole of OOn3 modelling, I do know of a 3D print of 4T by Tom Bell, but again I am not sure what is happening with that. As for a chassis etch I was not aware of one.

So I was wondering if the loco etch and the chassis etch are something that Phil has got done himself, I am not suggesting for one moment that he turns it into a commerical exercise, but that said if you can get say 10 others to buy them from you, you can often get a set done for yourself for free.

I can think of four people not on this list that might be interested.        

Colin, 4T is a joint project with a friend to produce an engine for my own layout. Neither of us has any wish to go ‘commercial’. The chassis is continuously sprung and with a bespoke gearbox. Virtually every bought-in component has been altered in some way. Preparing instructions doesn’t bear thinking about!! Maybe at some future time we could make the drawings available but I wouldn’t want to be building it blind from a kit of parts.

6 hours ago, Horsetan said:

He's kept that quiet, then, as his website doesn't mention that. We're still a good few years from seeing the rest of the Backwoods Irish range coming back into production.

Back then I was referring to the C&L wagon chassis. They are definitely available as I bought some from Nev a while back along with a passenger brake van kit.

Goodness, is it really 18 months since I got those etches. Well, 4T is getting close to the paint shop with just a few more bits to attach - bells and whistles? Once this, and the two 4-4-0's, are finished I really must concentrate on building a layout for them to run on.

There's not a lot of grey paint left on that!

There's masses of Irish photographs from this seller

https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/tony7811blue?_trksid=p2047675.m3561.l2559

Phil

I'll be there both days, driving some Danish trains but I will pop over to see you.

Phil

I now have my book. Many thanks to John Friel for sorting this

Phil

Contact has been made!

I would be grateful for any help or advice please. Back in early June I ordered a book from the RPSI shop and received a confirmation from the Whitehead Railway Museum. Since then nothing, no book and no response to two emails. I have had no issues with previous purchases.

Please can any one on here throw any light?

Phil

Thanks for that. I need to get my hands on one of them!!

On 22/4/2020 at 8:22 PM, minister_for_hardship said:

Please can you tell me the source of this as it's not in my copy of the 1933 GSR Rule Book

Thanks

Phil

No sooner said than done!

Today the chassis etches dropped through the letterbox. This is the complete set for the Kerr Stuart 2-6-0.

And this is how I know it will work - the 2D etches built up into a 3D drawing.

A pair of 4-4-0 chassis as well. I'm going to be very busy.

Phil

18 hours ago, Mayner said:

I tried to persuade Pete Parlin to produce a batch of Backwoods miniatures C&L wagon chassis etches to go with my resin cast wagon bodies without success.

Those chassis are now available again from Neville Kent at N-Drive Productions.

Phil

It must be time for an update on my progress so here goes:

I been busy building some goods stock.

This is an assortment of open wagons - a Foxrock ex-CB&P built as intended, a 4-door open 3D printed from my drawings on a Backwoods chassis with new etched parts for the brake gear, and a Foxrock original C&L open again built a Simon intended. I now have two nine wagon rakes for two coal specials and a number of spares for other duties.

The wagon works in full swing.

Satisfied with the wagons have I moved onto van production. The advantage of 3D printing these is that the endless variations of body types can be easily produced from a basic drawing. These will run on Backwoods chassis. I do have a stock of Foxrock chassis but, like Mayner, I do find these time consuming to build but I reserve the right to substitute them at a later date as they are more detailed! I plan a fleet of around a dozen covered vans.

Meanwhile 'my design team' have been beavering away preparing drawings for the etches for two of the original 4-4-0's and the ex-T&D Kerr Stuart 2-6-0. The chassis etches are due for delivery any day and the excitement is building.

Finally I will be attending the mini-Scaleforum event being put on by the North Norfolk Area Group near Melton Constable on Saturday (25 September), operating on Geraint Hughes' Danish Obbekær layout so if anyone is in the area, please drop by for an Irish narrow gauge chat - https://www.scaleforum.org/

Cheers

Phil

Yes, but we'd all jump at the chance to do it now!!

When I was planning to model Mohill I made a stab at producing the poster from the photograph. Without any idea what colour it should be I came up with this which doesn't look to bad when reduced to 4mm size.

Phil

You beat me to it, David. Here’s a couple of tasters:

I’m sure the answer to this query must be on the site somewhere but I can’t find it. Is there a consensus on which, if any, Halfords rattle can best represents the early CIE coach green (and the later shade too for that matter)?

Thanks for any help

Phil

I have these available for the cost of postage or free to collect from near Cambridge. All are used, only the County Donegal paperback is a little tired but is hanging on to all its pages!

Phil

Now all spoken for, thank you.

Pretty much finished now. I still have the cab interior to build - any clues as to what was in there anyone? We got a few little things wrong but I'm very pleased with the result. Many thanks to my good friend Brian Page for all his help. Now to get on with the rest of the layout!

Phil