Westcorkrailway

If your starting out. A lick of grey or black paint, red buffer beams and some basic transfers and your good to go the problem I find at the moment is finding a good source for those CIE buffer beam and side Numerals. I’m currently living off the ones from SSM with the bandon tank kit but am slowly running out….anyone know another place for good ones?

Probably the most in demand item to come back!

with 4 announcements…..there is very little chance anyone will be left out. Unless of course you happen to model the Waterford and central ireland railway or Cork and macroom direct railway. In which case i would be a little more skeptical! Roll on 50 minutes!

Are they the Chris dier railcars?

The IRM advent calendar is almost ready

Will add them….didn’t know about the JE ones. Harland and wolf one particularly interesting. Are they still in production? it seems I even forgot the RTR CB&SCR shunter that’s sitting on my desk staring at me

It really is up to you. While I’d like to go Full cork bandon and south coast railway. I found it more practical to stick to what’s out there and maybe as I gain experience work my way back lol you could make a the station in its “prime” in the 1890s or 1930s and run 1950s/1960s rolling stock on it with a different head cannon to what actually happened. For instance my grand plan is to build a kinsale Junction layout based on the autumn of 1960. Having the CBSC mainline and the kinsale branch(In spite of the fact the kinsale branch was lifted In the 30!) and maybe even the quarry branch which closed earlier again… I’m not sure what ran on that line in GSR days but there is RTR GSWR J-15s and a CBSC Shunter (which 100 percent never ran there!) both in GSR livery out there somewhere. Coaches from this era should be easier to make up I’m sure you know the story with what’s available with Early CIE era rolling stock to suit A30

Welcome “flying snail” very ambitious project you have planned! All pre grouping can be difficult. It would all obviously have to be scratchbuilt unless a suitible conversion exists out there somehwre? (Hattons genesis coaches would be my first port of call) @jhb171achill have you got anything lying around somehere? Maybe even ciril fry had a model of something or other

clue to what the next IRM loco is ?!?!

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Indeed they do. although unfortunately for my list….even the most modest of lads at Inchicore would call an 800 class a “small shunter”

So to round off this topic, because I know somone in the future (maybe myself included) will find this topic again looking for a good small shunter Ready to run 00 Works CB&SCR/GSR J24 class Bachmann/Murphy models NCC jinty Silverfox G class Silverfox D class Small conversion/Re-paint Hornby Rustun 88DS - CSE Ruston any Jinty - NCC jinty J72 - gsr J10 Hornby Pecket 0-4-0- GSR 495 3D printing GSWR 90 - mark dunlea Shapeways E401s/421s Kit built Studio scale models MGWR J26/ E-Class Worsley works Deutz G611 Judith Edge Ruston 88DS Judith Edge Ruston 165DS Judith Edge Harland and Wolf (NCC/UTA 22) 0-6-0 shunter If I have missed anything please tell me and I’ll edit this post accordingly

Dimensions on that look great! The problem is there is probobly a lot of space taken up by flywheels and such…I was looking at an LNER L1 but that one looks better

He does…I can’t finish my kit does he make the loughs?

I’d love if 00 works went through some more obscure steam locos and such that would never be made by a manufacture. Imagine if they made an SLNC 0-6-4 which you can’t even get in 00 form as a kit as far as a I know….or a certain 4-6-0T Cork and Macroom railway inspection car confirmed?!?!??

I rememember a certain forum member selling one for half that

The print quality is somewhere in between JM designs quality and a sanded down normal print. You can see how smooth some features like the water tanks turned out Considering there is no brass option currently for number 90. This is probobly the definitive way to go about making one at the moment. The same guy is making a Bandon tank model with hopes of using a similar chassis with B12 bogeys. It will be interesting to compare this bandon tank shell with my brass shell that I made last year

I wouldn’t wish this on any manufacturer…….How much damage we reckon was done here!

I heard we are to get this modern high speed replacements for Tara wagons.

That’s probobly not a good sign! Although to be fair, I’ve seen 4 year old crossleys that look 40 years old

If you thaught the number was odd just look at the wheel arrangement I must admit it looks really nice…I don’t know if the C class ever ran in Tippex though

Finished up number 90 now, and while she may be tall. The old lady is looking pretty alright (these photos make her look monstrously high but she’s about the same height as an Adams radial and smaller then an A class) this photo shows how nice it ended up looking The back (still need to shorten the chassis) With a prototypical beet rake with a post 55 green coach

this zoomed in screenshot of one from Ernie’s flicker page shows the difference between how the look in colour photos covered in grime, and what the livery actually looked like underneath that paint

I’ll bring it in person to the Swap meet on December 3rd, along with the rest of my conversions made in this thread if any of ye rivet counters want something to gawk at

Have found a solution to the chassis though it will need little cutting… however it will still be a very tall 90! the first 2 decals on….8 to go