Westcorkrailway

I’m happy enough with the colour of the railcars for now. Maybe the snails will change colour, but I think I’ll wait for IRM railcars over going through the effort of re-painting these ones

Is that all for there ambitious plan to have a line between Donegal town and Stranorlar/Ballybofey

No. Just cosmetic restoration

The photo Dosent do a great job. But the lining on the AEC is actually pale green perhaps it’s easier to see with natural light, rather then the artificial. Personally I don’t know how accurate the green silverfox uses is to the prototypical livery. Would A46 be a good comparison for pre 1956 green? However the snails are white, I don’t know what the policy with the snails were in terms of what direction there were facing. If I was arsed, I could try remove the transfers and replace them with EDN ones such as the ones used with my fictional CIE coaching stock. Only other thing it could do with is improvements to the front. It could do with at the very least silver lining around the windows etc.

I agree. These coaches feel far more Irish then either of my silverfox models do Finished all the coaches. Managed to put nice symmetrical numbers on all of them, a first and 3rd class coach. There more or less finished aside from re-installing the glazing and a 4th coat of black paint which I’ll get round too in….time 4 Bullied wagons are due in the post tommorow (I would think) and With the A class ordered in may, it must be my turn soon! (once again brining up the rosslare coach for a good comparison)

finished painting last night, put some transfers on one of them this morning Unlined green lined green comparison might add class numbers and eventually touch up the roof as black didn’t come out the best on the originally white roof. (Ran out of paint anyway) didn’t come out the worst considering the primitive methods used

Those kits have been obsolete since IRM dropped there E class last year

Or was it something all coaches were given by regulation

A good pal from the RPSI has told me that there cravens have push/pull sockets. So that begs the question, what was the point of giving that function if it was never used. A trial run maybe? Or just in case they were needed as a quick replacement?

Of course all this money will go towards restoring more engines for more sound chips!

I don’t think (surely) that there are any more A class variants hiding in IRM towers unfortunately however these will be quick to sell out I would think. So many were trying to get A39R and A23R. So much so that some late to the party settled for crosselly engined A15. Even if it was not ideal so Thanks IRM, for helping preservation, hungry modellers, and not announcing AEC railcars when mine arrived 2 days ago

Care to explain chaps? well at least we aren’t all going mad also….the cheek of ye to be hiding this edition the WHOLE time

The GNR loco probobly a 00 Works GNR U class. RTR rather then a kit

Some success After 2 hours of unproductive pulling off peices that I felt necessary, trying to fix the issue. And try and put it back together again. The 5mm has now dropped to 1mm. Only difference now being the black tape meant to hide the motor is gone so you can see clean through certain areas of course I’ll now need to test weather it can actually run, I have a sinking feeling that the sides of the bogey are still to low to clear the loco shell. And the two railcars seem far two close to actually round a bend (some of the precision tools I used for the job)

…… sh*te I was hoping to give my new railcars there first run in today, however attempting to attach them together I noticed a glaring problom the reason for the bogeys coming off make all the more sense. And I must be blind not noticing before but the back is 5 MM lower to the ground then the front. This means the bogey cannot attract to the other end of the car, cannot turn as its stuck and the bogey covers cannot stay on. I doubt it but does anyone know what to do because I don’t even know how easy it is to disassemble silverfox railcars. Because forget running it, I can’t even display it in its current state

After rough start with railcars (which I still have not had a chance to run yet!) I got on with my CIE coversion. Taped up either side and used what was left of Case/ New Holland black (stuff meant for tractors!) for my coaches. I ran out of spray which means no second coat…..I have the feeling that the Ex-White roof will leave a “GSR Grey” rather then black. I can always come back to it with more paint. onto green

I would’ve thought if people wanted a diesel shunter the G class would be more popular? (Haven’t a clue, silver fox versions will suffice for those who want one) ids say we’re a LONG way from IRM producing a shunting locomotive. There is much more popular stuff to do first!

Looks perfect. You can tell by the decorative top on the signal in that style that it’s west cork straight away

in other news After tense competition, with IRM up the walls busy and An Post not letting my other package get away. The race is over with the silverfox coming out on top It is a different shade to C212 somehow, so goodbye plant to keep the green consistent greens across the layout although at least it does not have a black roof that being said, the bogeys did not take the trip from England too well Bogeys fell off the driving axle and the end bogey snapped in two places on the dummy railcar. The axle came straight off but heh, nothing that a small a small bit of superglue wont fix hopefully As im typing this. The other bogey wheels have now come off, for me they bogeys are a bit to fragile for an post shipping

There are not to many model companies where we get direct access to behind the scenes, ask questions to almost immediate response I have only PROPERLY been into Irish modelling for 4 ish years, it could have been earlier but I only knew of MM stuff and stuck to my tiny British fleet and model farms. Hell I’ve only been in the forum for less then a year I would think! now time for guessing what’s in those boxes, because somone has too. (Ambitious as it is) I think we will get an update on those 3D printed footbridges by Robert Roche…..maybe just maybe

The loco is a bit miscoloured, but the paint is basically accurate in the above picture to how it looks in the flesh.

Some paint arived from marks today, it’s a bit on the lighter side but I might as well paint a coach and see what happens

Montana gold spray paint “shock grey”, “shock dark green” and “greenery” look pretty

for those wondering what supertrain with a black roof looks like

And the A’s were announced on October 29th 2018 you just couldn’t make it up