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Hi JHB Mr Coakham's book IBGC has a photo on page 44 of heating van No. 3131 sporting aluminium livery Eoin

Hi JHB As I mentioned to you last week or so, I was raging that I missed John's kits, so I'm making my own, here are a few photos of it being developed up.... The parts for two Heating Vans Scribed on detail Roof , W Irons & Spring parts being assembled to make moulds off I still have a bit to go but all is working out well.... Eoin

Hi All & a Happy New Year The 2018 Fairs kick off on Jan 21st, as this is supposed to be the year of the 121 we have set an appropriate graphic for this years flyer.... Hope to see yo then

Here is one that popped up- sort of in the same vein... http://wicklownews.net/2017/12/miniature-village-taken-from-garden/ Eoin

josefstadt There was a chap who had a model railway in his private garden near Kilcoole on one of the roads from Newtown..... he used to let people in, sadly the house was sold and the new owner had no interest and the layout was dismantled, I think in the early 2000's Here in Kilmac there is a 3.5inch track, a big circle on very nice pre-cast concrete arch system, built a long time ago and now disused, the current owner has left nature to take it over and it wont be around for much longer... such a pity! Eoin

Hi Here are a few photos of a set of Coupling & Connecting Rods for a Gauge 1 GNRi Class VS, fresh off the bench. They were machined from mild steel EN8 flats & sheet, the coupling rod axle centres is 103mm, I thought I'd photo them up against my trusty Gauge 00 171 for scale comp. The tapered route in the connecting rods was a bit of a task, it required a jig to allow the rod to swing a bit to allow cutting the taper route in the mill. Little lengths of .8mm NS wire are loctite-ed in a drilled hole to imitate the plug on the oil boxes on top of rods- ready now for their owner and I look forward to seeing them run...... Eoin

Excellent find, great detail and of great help I'm currently waiting Chinery bogie parts and etch rods n counter weights, all available but have to wait! Eoin

Excellent Noel It looks great and done very neatly Eoin

Hi Candle wax is the best, preferably paraffin wax type- if you run out of spit! I keep a block of it on the bench (i've had it since I was about 9) and drill into it before drilling the hard stuff, its also deadly when used to lubricate the piercing saw.... also my experience with the Expo Drill Sets is not good, I found on the really small ones the factory grinding to the business end was hit n miss- but replacement bits from Expo are excellent..... Eoin

Hi The ICR looks great I'm amusing the 121 is a white metal kit- the door panels and joins can be marked out with a scalpel and and then with an old blunt school compass point to make them a bit deeper, the lovers are another problem! I have wiped them down and am replacing with plastic cast ones.... Plastic cast louvres ready to go on to the valance Here are the windows with extra frame detail added with the dividers from the same school compass set Eoin

Hi JHB Incorporate a section of standard track into the layout for visiting locos, and keep a bit of stock to run with it, it could be an automatic straight shuttle section?? Layout just below eye level is right, but do keep in mind it's nice to be sitting down when running trains.... Eoin

Hi JHB Your existing J15 and the 141 should convert relatively easy, the 141 as far as I know has bogie sides that allow the wider wheel sets! Any new build can allow for at the onset..... C&L Finescale, Marcway, etc do parts to build yourself or build to order- although C&L are in a slow down with ownership change! and it costs a lot more.... Edit; Actually I'm told C&L are back up to usual speed You should talk to baseboard-dave on this he builds C&L layouts, there maybe a solution there! Eoin

CM I'd be in the switch box! there is a stove in there.... Eoin

Excellent David Classic little model, I see the driver has weighted down the front end with the sacks of spuds.... Eoin

Yes definitely trains on the other planets! - back in early days Lowell was convinced he could see through the scope, canals and high speed railway tubes on Mars Eoin

Hi All Dark and cold winter nights setting in at Greystones..... Eoin & CM

Hi David Lovely chassis, love the chain drive Where did you source the chain and sprockets? Eoin

Hi All Don't forget the Train & Model Fair is on this coming Sunday;- Info about the show can now be found on facebook @trainandmodelfair

Hi David Can you post or pm a link to the photo of the control desk? Thanks Eoin

Excellent David I think the smaller windows are correct, when the larger ones were installed it lost a scale quality.... Almost my favourite loco, have a few OO but must get doing an O Eoin

Hi david Also look out for the windows, see popeye's first photo of an early one- smaller windows to front and 3 of the same size across the back. Not sure if the Worsley Works 7mm etch has this if you are interested? Eoin

Hi David We had a discussion about livery on these lovely machines some time back and JHB gave livery info throughout, see link below- I was also caught out on that Tom Ferris photo, it's silver! the negative is old style and its colour is going off and it was printed as light blue..... Eoin

Hay Wrennie I think the gyro is a bit off on that drone Nice old bubbles though..... Eoin