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I've also dug up;- 5 bed ends- one I use as a gate into the garden- can be seen in the second last photo above. 2 plough spades- off an old tractor plough millions of bottles- tonic, HP, perfume, & boveril 4 steel chisels 2 sets of steel log splitters- ones with wire handles wrapped around 1 TV areal a sack of roofing stakes - blacksmith made in the days before them modern nails and still digging stuff up...... Eoin

Hi Broithe Yes, two weirs which still exist, and I was told by a chap that there was a settlement pool in front of my garage but a house stands there now. I had noticed old iron bits and cut granite stones (very like the granite in the kiln) in the garden of the house but the owner could not say where they came from- he sold the property recently and unfortunately the new owner remodelled the garden and discarded them- shes not into old stuff.... Eoin

You saw that decal I did not remove- 'eagle eye Broithe' The totem pole- that has puzzled me for years. I dug it up long ago in my front garden, it weighs a tonne so I reckon it's hardened steel- one idea I have is its part of a lime rock crusher! My house used to be 3 workmen's cottages with a lime kiln in my garage.... any ideas?? Eoin

Here are 6 commandeered BR 7 plank wagons converted & weathered to Irish I bought these some time back before I found out about Irish stuff available but decided to use them anyway as a test for weathering, their not fully complete yet but very close- going to do a few replacement planks on some and fit loads of.....something! Eoin

203 on its way for a bit of a clean- been working hard! Also requires a bit of a engine tune up- it's been belching out a lot of black stuff! Eoin

Sad news RIP Jim

Hi All The next Fair is on June 17th;-

Hi Jason, thanks I actually thought it was going to be more difficult than it was Eoin

Hi All We haven't posted for a while, we've being doing things model railway related but not on the layout Today we did a bit of landscaping prep- trees! Woodland Scenic armatures, Heki Nature Trees and a bit of Heki scatter The armatures were bent n twisted and given a coat of grey primer Then they were given a coat of Chocolate Brown, a light coat to allow a bit of grey come through and then dashed with black n white here n there I cut the Nature Trees from their main stalks and worked with small bits sticking them to the armatures with cyano glue, the standard green ones were perfect and very easy to fill out a tree but the dark green/going to red was more difficult- it was more scrunched up in the box and fell into very small spindly sprigs. Tedious stuff..... First one The forest Very happy with these and not to difficult to do, 8 trees out of 12 armatures and the box of Nature Trees in about a days work- not going to use the autumn colour which would finish the pack of 12 armatures- the Greystones layout is spring/summer I did have a go at applying the Heki scatter but that didn't go well and I quickly removed it- colour was the problem. But as I proceeded I decided the scatter wasn't really required A misting of matt varnish will be done and then their ready for planting..... Eoin

Hi MikeO Unfortunately they are for customers, I do have more of the body prints coming so I'll tag your name to one, I'm pretty sure I have your name down already on the list!! Eoin

Thanks MikeO I have 4 two car set bodies together but still developing the chassis, I had planned to use generic Kato chassis but the jigs for making the bodies was based off the Tomix, the one above, and they don't fit the Kato! and I cant even get the Kato chassis now so no point in making the jigs again. So it's going to be my own design chassis like the idea for the N 141- this is also delayed as I'm experiencing printing problems and table levelling problems on the CNC machine...... Eoin