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  1. Horsetan
    I'd have thought that Irish engines would have been a popular choice for any up-and-coming manufacturer. Most classes had no outside cylinders or valve gear to speak of, so already the chassis engineering is simplified!
  2. Horsetan
    You'll know of Pendon Museum's 28xx which can haul 95 on the level. Sixty should be possible for a six-coupled, depending on how your wagons are weighted.
  3. Horsetan
    I seem to recall that you can knock the speed down a bit by putting a suitable resistor into the motor circuit.
  4. Horsetan
    I thought that was the point of the question?
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    If we were to look at the track centre from - for example- the edge of a platform, in 21mm this would be further out by about 2.25mm. Between two running lines, you would still need to ensure that you preserve the distance between them so that trains pass each other. Hence you would be using clearances that are much more a scale representation of the real thing. I think there are diagrams which show the kind of clearances you need. Some are here. These are the clearances we might use in P4/18.83, but you can see how the principles apply in 21mm gauge.
  6. Horsetan
    If you know what the GN wheelbase is, then your only problem is finding the RTR chassis to match. Modern RTR production means very uncertain spares availability, so good luck finding sufficient quantities of complete chassis. Both Bachmann and Hornby can be very unhelpful. A 101/J15 had a 7'3 x 8'3" chassis, so technically you could use a GW Pannier or Dean Goods as a basis.
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    You cannot retain the kind of sharp radius curves and angles that are common in OO, unless you are portraying something like the CSET beet factory or Guinness internal lines For 21mm, 3ft radius would be pushing your luck.
  8. Horsetan
    Are you going 21mm gauge as well?
  9. Horsetan
    There are photos of 552 in that condition, working the Kilmessan-Athboy branch.
  10. Horsetan
    It would certainly cut down the time needed to lay plain track, which means you can concentrate on the pointwork.
  11. Horsetan
    Hopefully a move towards 21mm gauge
  12. Horsetan
    A little bird tells me there might be something from the GNR(I)...
  13. Horsetan
    Other than Worsley Works, there is virtually nothing available in the kit world for the CDRJC now. Previously, you could buy kits from Backwoods and Parkside Dundas (ex-Ninelines) and get something running. The peak of Irish NG kit availability (in 4mm NG terms, anyway) seems to have been early 2000s. If you missed the boat, then you really missed it.
  14. Horsetan
    That's a real shame. Just as well I secured one kit to build "Drumboe" long ago. If there aren't to be any more of these kits I might as well scan the etches and do my own if I can get my head around how AutoCAD works.
  15. Horsetan
    None of the Backwoods kits are for the faint-hearted, but there is a question mark (allegedly) over whether they are still available.
  16. Horsetan
    I don't remember there being one in the kit. If using the smokebox supplied, then rivets would have to be individually pressed into the brass before it's rolled to shape, and I haven't worked out how many rivets the thing's supposed to have. Might be a bit much to send it over here (London), wait, then pray the smokebox survives Royal Mail and An Post.
  17. Horsetan
    You clearly haven't seen the bombsite I work in.
  18. Horsetan
    'tis but a flesh wound!
  19. Horsetan
    Here's a picture from Mike Morant's photo site, showing 801 with the headboards: The shape of the boards exactly matches the run of the extra handrails. There is another one of 802 in CIE markings with exactly the same handrail runs on the smokebox door. It looks as though they were applied and never removed, with the exception of no.800. 802 was apparently withdrawn and cut up by about 1957/58, so she may have gone to her grave still bearing the handrails.
  20. Horsetan
    Certainly seems an ingenious idea, and cheap when compared with these 10-coupled engines not catered for, though - bad news for builders of 9Fs and WD 2-10-0s, as well as German classes 44/45/50/52/58/94/95, etc. Only thing I'd be concerned about is the lack of support below - I usually build my frames using a flat surface - e.g. small plate of glass.
  21. Horsetan
    ...along with vinyl roofs on cars, unfeasibly-wide flares on trousers, etc. And the hair! What were they thinking of!?
  22. Horsetan
    I did wonder whether the vertical / slanted handrails were used as mounts to carry headboards for official visits, e.g. the Papal Nuncio. It seems to have been an expedient solution to a temporary problem, and aesthetics never got a look in.
  23. Horsetan
    But it was cheap, which suited CIE's pockets down to the ground.
  24. Horsetan
    Those extra handrails on the door of Macha were fugly.
  25. Horsetan

    Sulzer Kit

    Horsetan replied to robbieb's topic in Irish Models

    I'm getting back to it shortly for the next stage. Very deceptive angles. Currently working on Prototype Deltic (again) and Metropolitan Bo-Bo.
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