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Finished Cheers Darius
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Painted, using a mix of Phoenix Irish Cement Wagon Blue and NIR Blue enamels airbrushed on. NEM coupling pockets fitted. Decals and weathering next. Cheers Darius
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Wagon assembly completed and ready for priming. The door chains will be added after priming so no as not to clog up the chain links with repeated spray paint coats. Cheers Darius
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"Rails Through Wexford" Book Launch in Wexford Library
Darius43 replied to Irishrailwayman's topic in What's On?
Both the Wexford and Tipperary books arrived today. Now happily immersed in the Wexford one Cheers Darius- 36 replies
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Modified Bachmann 14 Ton tank wagons with homemade decals applied and a spot of weathering. Cheers Darius
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I built these MIR kits a few years ago, however the resin axle boxes started to spread apart, which caused the wheels to drop out. Fixed today by inserting plasticard horseshoe shims between the bearings and the axle boxes. Cheers Darius
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From an old album of photos from an Interail trip that I did with some friends from Belfast between school and university. Berlin ‘83 Looks a bit different now… Cheers Darius
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And another makes three Cheers Darius
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Built another one Cheers Darius
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Large Logo Lookers - The Next 37 Trio About To Arrive!
Darius43 replied to Warbonnet's topic in British Outline Modelling
Arrived this morning Absolutely superb. The Accurathrash sound is amazing as this mediocre video hopefully demonstrates. Cheers Darius -
Built yesterday afternoon and completed this morning. Great fun. I applied home made decals in place of the original Letraset rub down ESSO decals. Cheers Darius
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Hi Noel, The body is a much modified Triang. The chassis is also modified Triang with the original bogies replaced with two of the new Hornby Class 37 motor bogies - which are available as spares. Triang English Electric Type 3 Cheers Darius
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Wired the BR Blue Type 3 for DCC and fitted a sound chip and sugar cube speaker. Transformed from this:- To this:- Cheers Darius
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A few more Hornby MGR wagons modified to add to the rake. To make the formation “reversible”, I modified the first and last pairs of wagons to have standard tension lock couplings. This enables the first and last wagon (with the tail light) to be uncoupled and swapped around in the storage yard without having to remove any of the fixed bar couplings. Cheers Darius
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Received today direct from Accurascale - very very nice indeed One of the wagons is fitted with an operational tail light that is activated by a magnetic wand - supplied in the box by Accurascale. I waved the wand as per the instructions with increasing franticness but the light refused to illuminate. The light is battery operated. Removing the hood assembly revealed the reason - batteries not included. I have now ordered some suitable batteries online. I fitted the buffer beam screw link coupling and hose details. Removing the spring loaded coupling housing makes the detail fit and look better. I had to drill out the holes for the detail parts as they were smaller than the lugs on the parts that are supposed to fit into them. Looking forward to fitting the batteries and finally getting the wand to work its magic. Cheers Darius
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Hi DJ. I drill out the window corners with a smallish diameter bit in a pin vice (to create the curved corners) and then cut between them with a new/sharp blade. I then clean the opening up with needle files. Cheers Darius
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Tail lights added courtesy of West Hill Wagon Works. Cheers Darius
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Some running this morning Cheers Darius
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Terraced houses now in place on the layout. Cheers Darius