Westcorkrailway

Agree, even if this there was a practical thing to restore, it’s condition is too far gone. The CMDR coach(es) in dungarvan are probobly a more rare desirable and better condition item, but no one would touch them with a stick (to be fair alerently the price for them is shockingly bad)

Whilst talk of Donegal railways and the ambitious plans of future rail network went on, I was applying the transfers to the cattle wagons the choice of primer worked out excellent, these wagons look the real deal (if you remove the 40 shades of brown and black they got precisely 10 minutes into use) glad I got 6 of them as I’m starting to run out of room, never mind the JM designs brakevan on the way, and possible addition of H van conversions. The light grey 121 and Silver bulleid wagons to the left give a good indication to the final colour of the wagons

MK3 and MK4 coach -Irish mark iv coach (DVT had no realistic option) hattons genisis coaches have similarities to designs over here, I’m sure @jhb171achill can elaborate on which ones obviously a lot of early CIE wagons have parallels to BR wagons GSR/CIE Pullman cars perhaps SR schools class - GNR VS class

my example of GSR 479 made from an Adams radial In fact once you remove the cylinder, this loco could become many Irish prototypes Fowler 2-6-4t - NCC WT class Dean goods- J15

I’ll start with the obvious ones SECR N class- MGWR K class LMS jinty- NCC Jinty LMS compound- V class Adams radial-BCDR tanks jubilee class-GSR 800 class 08 Shunter-CIE D Class shunter Ruston 88ds- CSE Ruston 88 Hornby pecket- Allmans distillery pecket

I think such a topic needs a thread on its own

Found the end of a primer bottle in the workshop and used it for my CIE cattle wagons Coat 1/3 for the LNER wagons finished product ready for re-fitting wheels, buffers and maybe the vac pipes maybe tommorow while the county Donegal zoom is going on, I’ll get these finished

There is a new series on RTE about bridges. The first episode featured more railways then the entire series of Iranroid Enda

I think the price will keep people from coming at this model with the soldering iron and paint

Dead right! None of these wagons looked uniform in colour after a couple of uses!

I’m think that’s the cover of Henry casserlys book. The spine in mine has horrendous sun damage and puts a big white section through the complete painting

Today is a good day, no school, passed driving test and now my brand new Oxford LNER cattle wagons arived they worked out including customs and postage. Just under a tenner a pop. they look reasonably like the CIE cattle wagons. the length, doors and the supports on the side are noticeably soo. But for he price I payed, there was bound to be some set backs. JM designs can would go behind these nicely The point is between these cattle wagons, and a few open wagons. I need the find a good colour grey for the paint. I’m aware the CIE goods Grey was quite light, had white snails (stencilled or normal) and the older wagons were darker grey with green snails in some cases. I wonder if anyone has a good rattle can or paint in general that matches up nicely with The Lighter Grey CIE used at the end of the 50s and start of the 60s.

Screenshots, pushing together, cropping….and then finding a place with a good A3 printer Or you could travel to location and take a panoramic picture with your phone (if your phone has that panoramic picture feature)

If IRM were ever to do a C class. Would they do 2 C231’s. One in that green as it is so popular and the other in the “as preserved” ITG greeen

I’ve been too all of them thus far. All 2!

They look alright without painting I suppose. indeed I was thinking was it going to be the lighter grey or the later brown livery. Probobly fair to say weathering can bring that light brown to that colour

Look fantastic! which livery will they be put into?

Obviously I’m far from the stage where I’m drowning in models. But sounds like ye should just label some of yer boxes “moyesta”

Currently at £1 is to €1.20…..worst it’s been in a while

So a slightly different version of the brakevan altogether. Steel sheeted would be simular but not identical to SSM kit of the 30 ton variant

Are the updated versions of the 20t brakevans part of the 2nd wave of flying snail stencil vans that were released for pre order in January?

It can help but it does not completely pay the bills. The fintown railway is in such a beutiful spot (probobly the most beutiful of any heritage line in this country) and yet struggles with numbers due to it’s completely isolated sport.

The part built one looks great! I’m sure northern Irish modellers, or in fact anyone who needs more of an excuse to run NIR mk2 stock.

I’d Agree. that brief shot of the J15 winding its way slowly through the countryside. back in topic. Much of what Silver/Green/Black/Black n Tan can be seen in this brief clip that popped in my feed this evening that’s part of a longer dvd (could not get the link to clip so here are a few exerts, can be found in west cork model village Facebook) more importantly C212 will give an idea for some models of what Crossely did to A42….it looks like a completely different colour. As do all the wagons

Provincial wagons can make a 1:1 scale kit. As James may once did with an airfix spitfire. Loughrea, a Black n tan A class and a rake of provincial wagons “1950s cattle wagons”. Now that’s a layout that I’d like to be seen done