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Excellent Noel

Mr Bob First one is hard to make out if it's a Class D11, or D14, or D15, or ??, I'd go with a D14 - no models for this one, there are Hornby 4-4-0s that could be converted but they are a bit big and require some converting. Second one is a Class J15, - OO Works do a RTR model and Studio Scale Models do a brass kit if your into building kits. The D14s were built from 1886 to 1891! and steam ships in harbour- my guess on period is 1900 to 1920? Eoin

The moulds for the seats n tables are complete and today I spent the morning plastic casting. I made two sets of moulds to speed things up and I will make a big mould from today's casting of 20 seats for the next coach. First castings. The lot cast. A little bit of a clean up on the edges is required, but wont be stuck down until the floor is painted, also as said above I'll use these 20 seats to make a bigger mould first. Eoin

Thanks Noel, The glazing will be sandwiched. Eoin

So then, I sorted out the partitions height by de-soldering, shimming up and soldering in again, now the body sits on the chassis beautifully. Next up was to prepare the roof by soldering in the torpedo vents, the roof was thinned with 180deg solder and the vents soldered in with 70deg lead solder. A bit of a clean up on the underside of the vents if one should decide to install lights, I also left a cut-out in the top of the partitions and roof bracing for this. The roof is now ready to be nailed on, but a bit of preliminary set-up for the internals is required- easier to test fit and adjust the bits while the roof is off. Internal sides and passenger floor were cut from .5mm styrene sheet. Excellent fit, the inside window frames will work great with this idea and will be painted silver before the glazing and sides go in. Seats and table parts have been made and moulds are cooking to plastic cast up the full set. After this is done and test fitted- its on with the roof and some small bits, then I can start painting. Has anyone got an idea on the toilet water tank fillers? I was thinking of a circular latch cap type of thing and wonder if there was two of them? Eoin

Will do Horsetan. Eoin

Yes, congratulations lads- and this is only year 1 and your in the top 3 Eoin

Hi Paddy Thanks for nice comment, The trees are a mixture- bought and home grown. The nice bought ones came from Modelrailbaseboards which are fabulous and made in Poland, there is a bit of a wait when ordered but their worth it. The home grown were done with Woodland Scenic armatures and sea-foam foliage stuck on- their a pretty close match to the bought ones, there should be a few pictures back up the thread..... Eoin Hi Irishrailwayman Your the second chap thinking its the Glen of the Downs, we did buy it because we also thought of the Downs It's from Expo Tools - 95281 Hills & Dales, we bought 2 of them, it comes in 2 sheets each and we used 3 sheets for the length of the layout, one of the bridges & trees masks the join.... Eoin

Excellent fl, thanks

Hi Guys, Here is another question on the laminate coach;- Does the public emergency break system come out both ends of the coach? looking at the laminate photos some ends do not have the system! which leads me to believe it's at one end only!! What do we reckon? Eoin

1800s military 3 story seafront house

It's up now! Thanks Broithe for the reminder Eoin

Next fair;-

Try starting this with your finger Noel;- I kept all the engines I bought from the time of about 9 years old, I still have some of the tools from back then- used to work on trains now, sadly never kept some of the earlier planes, still have a few Spitfires, a Tucan and a Bobcat, which this engine is from. The plane has hung from the ceiling of the workshop for the last 20 years!! Eoin

Looks great Ken I actually bought an rtr one of these in Marks recently, unfortunately it's black but that will be sorted- sometime? Eoin

Hi Noel Not sure if doing hinges! Handles will be bent up NS wire guards and filed down dress pin heads for handles- these will go on last after painting is complete. Eoin

Thanks all for the great comments Next up, the body.... Body mounting brackets being soldered onto the ends with a spare bits of fret from the kit, underneath as spacers Sides being soldered onto the ends- because I soldered the roof access steps on the ends first! I had to do this mad jigging arrangement! Each side has an end soldered on like a 'L' and then the two are soldered together. All together with the internal divisions soldered in- toilets and break/store compartments. These bits don't come with the kit, their home spun. Test fit of body and roof. Some small adjustments required- I forgot to put fret spacers under the dividers when soldering them in! their low and hold the body up off the chassis, got to do that again. Looking good though Eoin

Hi fl I'll include a set of sides for you the next time I go casting them..... Eoin

Break shoes! no point in doing the break cylinders and gear and not have shoes! Modified Dart Castings 2952 wagon shoes, trimmed down and stuck to a styrene bar for moulding for plastic casting. Moulding and casting done the shoes are being fitted to the bogie frames with epoxy. Little shoes. The chassis now sports 4 under-frame boxes- the existing boxes were de-soldered and both soldered on one side, 2 new boxes were made up and soldered to the other side. Break Cylinder, break shaft brackets and dynamo are 180deg soldered on. The new boxes. Chassis is more or less done, a few small fittings to go on and side angle folded up- ready for clean up and painting. Eoin

Hi jhb I'm not to sure, you would need to give them a call! I used to use Copy Graphics in Clonskea to do colour A1 prints in the architectural days- they charged €26 for the first print and then a lower cost for each copy- so at a guess if you set-up the artwork yourself possible a charge around €20.00??

Hi Noel Any print shop with large format printer or banner printer will do it for you- 'One to One' in Dun Laoghaire, Hackets, or Grants. If you set-up the artwork for A1 sheet or banner printing you'll save a bit on the cost Eoin

Hi Noel It's from Expo Tools - 95281 Hills & Dales, we bought 2 of them, it comes in 2 sheets each and we used 3 sheets for the length of the layout, one of the bridges & trees masks the join.... Eoin

Hi jhb The gate is from Studio Scale models- brass etch kit, you get a number of period gates to work with, the posts I made from styrene cut with hot wire cutter, all mounted on a brass sheet base yet to be stuck down and gravelled...... Eoin

With the delivery of the final batch of trees before Christmas, the landscapers were on site today and installed 50% of the delivery, then the weather turned bad and the chaps did a runner- being Friday n all! We are assured they will be back next week to finalise the landscaping.... Eoin & CM