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    Loco builder box

    in Tips & Tricks

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    Picked this up at the Glasgow Show from Tony Wright who was building brass locomotives + lots of good tips from him.

     

    It's just what I needed to ensure the chassis was in alignment, it's one of Weshty's SSM kits.

     

     

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    Modelrail Scotland 26-28 Feb 2016

    in What's On?

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    An excellent show, added to it was the meeting up of friends/Site Members. Some pictures of my highlights:

     

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    Please excuse the quality of some of the photos but I'm sure you will agree the skills displayed on these layouts give us all something to aspire too.

    Kirley junction

    in Irish Model Layouts

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    Cattle Movements on Kirley Junction.

     

    After Fair Day Cattle were moved to a nearby Cattle Pens for loading.

     

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    Ex S2 Class GNR 192,now UTA 63 backs onto the Cattle Wagons.

     

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    Movement out of the siding.

     

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    Across the level Crossing just before Kirley Junction Station.

     

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    Enters the Station in very bright sunshine, sorry for the poor picture quality.

     

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    Passengers starting to notice the 'aroma' wafting down the platform.

     

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    They are wondering how long will it take to pass through the Station.

     

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    3D Printed Models

    in Irish Models

    Posted

    30th January - Museum News:

    Taken from the RPSI site. Possibility of some new models in the future?

     

    Thanks to generous funding by GROW South Antrim, the Society has been able to tender for non-destructive 3D scanning of some of our vehicles.

    3D scanning provides a permanent archive, recording and preserving the external and internal detail and condition of these key artefacts. The scans will provide wider access on-line and will be used in a variety of other digital applications.

     

    In this contract, we are getting 3D scans made of ten vehicles - locomotives No.3 "R.H. Smyth", No.85 "Merlin", No.186 and B142, NCC carriages 68, 87 and 91, and, from the GNR, the Directors' Saloon, a Guinness grain van and goods Brake van No.81 "Ivan".

    Each vehicle is being scanned externally, from above and from below (where possible) as well as internally. Each vehicle has had up to 20 separate scans made to ensure complete coverage. The highly-specialised scanning camera records up to half a million infra-red signals a second and, as each scan can last about five minutes, there is quite a lot of data! The principal output will be highly-detailed point-clouds which can be rotated on any axis, cross-sectioned in any plane and measured, to the nearest millimetre, between any two points. These will be used to generate plan and cross-sectional drawings as well as form the basis of other 3D model types.

     

    Our contractors, CMC Associates, are also taking thousands of photographs which will be used to add texture to the drawings and thus provide highly-detailed pictures which can also be rotated, cross sectioned and measured in the same way as the drawings.

    These pictures are of the vehicles as they are now but the final models could be modified to demonstrate different liveries or configurations.

    This project can also be seen as a pilot for making the entire RPSI collection accessible digitally. These assets may also have the potential to generate income for the RPSI through generating small scale models for sale, virtual objects or perhaps future files for 3D printing.

    Further photographs are available on our Facebook page.

     

    Looks like good news for the Irish modeller.

     

    Walter.

     

     

    Any update Walter?

    GNR 442t

    in Questions & Answers

    Posted

    Just discovered this grand old lady in my attic - made by a friend from a Studio Scale Models kit many moons ago. Des is going to send me suitable transfers but I was wondering what else I might need to do to get her going again? A far as I recall she was a solid runner but a bit noisy.......

     

    I suppose the first thing to do Patrick is to remove the body and see what type of motor is fitted. It's most likely a Mashima motor, is it not running at all? If not then test all the wiring is intact and put some power direct to the motor to see if it turns. It maybe a case of some light lubrication and running it on a rolling road for an hour or so. It that does not work then open heart surgery may be the only option.

    Plasser & theurer

    in Questions & Answers

    Posted

    I'm delighted with my Viessmann model Kieran,

    Although it's HO scale as can be seen from this photo it is always used during a perway possession of the track so there are never OO gauge trains nearby when it's working.

     

    Richie is correct in saying that its closest match would be IE tamper 742.

     

     

    Thanks Noel, it's some beast!

    Plasser & theurer

    in Questions & Answers

    Posted

    The brittania pacific model is really very close to the Irish prototype, but the roof needs some revision, along with the addition of pneumatic hoses etc, a job you'd tackle with ease. It's the best resin casting I've ever come across, really is top of the line production. If I can dig out photos of the one I irish-ised, I'll post them later.

     

    http://www.dckits-devideos.co.uk/shop/track_machines_tampers_overhead_catenery_infrastructure/clockwork_ideas_and_tamping_machines/plasser_08_16_c80rt_c100_rt_tamping_machine.php

     

     

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    Thanks Richie, on the DCKits site they mention 2 models, the Plasser 08-16 C80RT and C100-RT Tamping Machine. Which one is closest to one to the Irish prototype?

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