Kirley

Kirley Junction this morning with an NIR 6 Car Class 80 Set (contrasting liveries). Also IR Passenger and Freight Traffic.

That Van sure is a great piece of work

Must be due another video soon or has all gone quiet at Ballykay?

While hard to find the odd MIR wagon kit pops up from time to time. I picked up a started Fertilizer Wagon and a CIE 4 Wheel Flat Wagon in which there was bits missing. Both were white metal kits. Last night I finally got round to making a start on them and got them to primer stage today. Missing bits replaced with plasticard. Found some extra bits from another kit. A finishing coat, couplings and decals to finish.

Just stumbled across this video on YouTube of Tom Brady's layout and as you would expect has a vast range of rolling stock. Some nice touches on the layout.

Looking forward to seeing the layout revamp and the Jeep conversion - busy days ahead at Portlaoise!

Finally, finally completed my Class 80 build. Just waiting on decals arriving, then applying them, varnishing before finally adding Glenderg's windows to complete. It's a great feeling to have finished, well almost but of course now it's on the next project.

Your glazing panels are a great idea and it's good to see how it should be done. Keep the innovations coming.

I see you have an Oil Tank wagon built, and a Low-loader and & building to follow. Looking forward to seeing things progress - "It's too late to stop now!"

I completed an Intermediate Car to add to the Maroon/Blue Class 80's set and added Glenderg's windows to it and the MIR Class 80. Nice to see a two Car set running.

Excellent in every aspect

Happy Birthday Anthony, keep on trucking

Progress is slow and things still to do seems endless. One of the effects of changing the window layout from the original Mk II design is that seating and door entrances are different. Removing tables, cutting the seating and manufacturing new door entrances, toilet compartments has taken a good few hours. I also had to build a Drivers compartment for the Driving Trailer As I'm using a Bachmann's Class 150 chassis for the Power Car there will be no room to model it's interior.

The Helix must take up a 6 x 3 area now but is obviously worth it for the longer runs you are giving the 'Trains'. Picking up on your new supporting steel work as well, you have been busy.

Thanks Guys, As they are BR Mark II's the 12mm would appear to be the ones to go for.

Colm Flanagan looks at some additional locos in Murphy Models Class 071 range in Model Railways Live, see link: https://www.model-railways-live.co.uk/Articles/404/Murphy_Models_Class_071_detailing_and_consists/

I want to replace the plastic wheels on some Hornby coaches. They measure approx. 13mm in diameter but replacement metal wheels seems to be in 10.5mm, 12mm and 14mm sizes. Is this a case of Hornby using undersize wheels and I should replace with 14mm ones?

Love the little touches

Welcome on board Colin, you should start your own Workbench so that others can see your work. Did you hand paint the crest by the way, it looks great.

You are really getting into plasticard modelling now and it really looks the part.

Delightful in every aspect.

While working on my Class 80 build Glenderg contacted me about his new innovation, windows with frames and glazing bars. You have to paint them and they are applied on the outside of the window but because of their extreme thinness they look flush with the window frame. I have two Class 80's an MIR Set and one built by Colin Smith of Bangor plus the Set I am building. Both sets has Lima internal grazing which means the "glass" is on the inside of the window. I decided to try Glenderg's grazing and ordered windows for all three Sets. The painting of the windows took me a bit of practice but as I moved onto my second coach I was getting the hang of it. I'm very pleased with the results and am looking forward to see how they turn out on the new 80 Class Set I'm working on.

A bit of colour at last!

No I got it from Holland hence the high postage costs.