Kirley

I'm trying to source coloured pictures of UTA lorries -the very few I've come across are all black & white?

Any suggestions please?

So you're the Wiggy of the "wiggyatheweekend" fame. When I started Irish modelling I followed your videos to learn what could be done. Welcome to the site. You are moving at some pace in putting together your new layout. I'll follow your progress with interest.

Excellent -your have artistic skill to produce such work.

Did not realise that football topics were allowed on this forum -O what missed opportunities, I could have mentioned Man City latest achievements!

Nice to see you have named your layout, everytime I see your latest video I see another area worked on with the standard always high.

Excellent work E-man, mine has been sitting at the apply the handrails stage, I must get it finished. Did Westie say it could be built in an hour? not by me anyway.

Wow those look fantastic! Where did you get the engine wash?

Thanks for the comments -the wash unit I got on ebay -it may have been a Lima one

This guy is excellent, no wonder his ratings are so high

A quick visit to The Downpatrick & County Down Railway Society today and saw their new carriage building. There are some pictures of its interior.

I’m sure you will agree it’s a fantastic new facility and congratulations to all at Downpatrick

Brilliant!!!!!!!!!! More photos of DDs please

As requested the Enterprize Train

Fantastic!! Huge range of stock too!!

Any more detail photos?

Sorry Boskonay, that's all I took. There would be photographs on the previous sites on my Workshop page

I started this layout about 3 years ago but never developed it further. Making/adapting models took my main interest and the layout took a back stage and the difficulties in working in a loft environment resulted in little enthusiasm to complete it to its full potential.

So I have decided to abandon the loft layout and start a new one at ground level. I took some pictures of the layout and some of the stock I have built up over the past years before I start dismantling track etc for the new one.

I intend to move to DCC and hope to put up some pictures of the new layout as it progresses

An excellent forum for picking up good practical ideas on how to do layouts

On the other site Whesty promised us a 30 Ton Brake Van for the Bangor Show -they seeked him here they seeked him there but no sign of Whesty anywhere - maybe it's tomorrow (Sun) he is coming. Please let us know Whesty?

Loughrea seems to have had some cosmetic work done since I last set eyes on it , and it looks all the better for it. Any more pics of layouts Kirley please.

 

Rich,

As requested Rich -more of Loughrea -feast your eyes!

Niiice!

 

Get any more photos?

No, I took lots of Loughrea because I was so impressed with it. I'm sure there will be other photographs of the pre -production 071 by others to come later.

Just back from the Bangor Show.

Well attended with lots of Suppliers and Traders. It was good to meet members from this side including some "Moderators"

The star of the show was on The Model Shop, Belfast stand with a 071 in a glass case.

Sorry about the poor quality of the photographs.

The best layout for me was Loughrea by MRSI

This was the first time I had seen it and was very impressed.

A Village in Ireland

As some light relief away from “engineering” I thought I would try some buildings for my layout. When I saw a book on ebay containing a card model of an Irish Village I thought I would give it a go.

It was not a pre –cut out kit like Melcalfe and each piece had to be cut out which did away with the light relief aspect of this project.

In truth it was death by a thousand cuts not to mention how many scalpel blades I went through.

Well it’s finished now and I suppose for £6 it was not a bad purchase and should look better when built into the layout.

Useful pictures of some of CIE ,Irish Rail and Bus Eireann's truck fleet

http://www.flickr.com/photos/57566472@N05/favorites/

Thanks gm171, I hope to do some CIE lorriesin the future and now I know where to look for painting information.

MAK K801

For whatever reason the MAK Type 800 D loco has always held a fascination for me. Made in Germany it was delivered free of charge for trials to the GNRB and unloaded at North Wall, Dublin in the end of 1954.

Following the disbanding of the Great Northern Railway Board in 1958 it was allocated to CIÉ and renumbered K801. It spent most of its working life in Cork and then the Drogheda area before it was withdrawn in 1976

My donor model is based on the DB V65 which is only supplied in HO Scale and made by Hobbytrain.

It was fairly straight forward, involving stripping the original paint, adding some grills at the front, sides and rear. The cab doors had to be repositioned and hand rails added. Also horns and cab steps were required.

I have set my model in 1956 taken from a photograph carrying the following caption, “THIS WAS RELEASED FROM INCHICORE AFTER REPAIRS ON 30/06/1956. IT IS REPAINTED IN UNLINED GREEN & NUMBERED K801”

Hopefully the difference in scale is not to obvious.

UTA MED Set

The UTA despite having very limited resources came up with many innovative railcars. The Multi-Engined Diesel (MED) was an early diesel powered three-coach diesel railcar set and was constructed at its Duncrue Street works, starting in 1951. Twenty eight Units in total were built and they lasted until 1978.

I decided to have a go at making a set and when I saw Worsley Works advertising a kit for it I thought it would be reasonably straight forward. But this was my first attempt at soldering a brass kit. It turned out to be not the easiest kit to start with and there were many attempts at soldering, unsoldering and re-soldering again.

I used Airfix 60’ coaches for two of the cars and replaced the sides with the brass ones. For the driving car I used a Replica Railways die-cast chassis. They only have the 64’ chassis available at the moment which meant having to reduce the size of the chassis.

I found Replica Railways were very helpful in guiding me through this operation sending me detailed instructions on how to do this.

The die-cast chassis very smooth runner and its only drawback is the works intrude into the passenger compartment and no seating could be fitted in the driving car.

Reasonably pleased at my first attempt at soldering a brass kit but I would equate it with using an airbrush- the more you practice the better you get at it.

GNR(I) Cattle Wagon Kits

Just completed assembling some of Leslie McAllister's Cattle Wagon Kits.

Found the make up to be straight forward after you got over the tedious bit of

cleaning all the parts especilly with all those slats on the sides.

One thing I found was the resin is brittle, not a lot of give.

I dropped one of the chassis and one of the axle box castings snapped off.

I super-glued it back on but was worried would it hold when I put the wheels on but no problems.

I was cleaning one of the body end castings and was working on an uneven surface and when I put

pressure on it one corner snapped off. Again super-glue to the rescue .

Very detailed instructions are supplied and I only deviated once from them as I wished to paint

the wagons first before putting the wheels on.

More Wagons on order.

WT Class -Jeep

I completed my conversion of a Hornby MT4 to a UTA WT Class known affectionally as Jeeps some time ago but problems with the Valve Gear Assembly meant two returns to Hornby. It was worth the wait as is running perfectly now.

It was good to be able to run it at last as well as the rake of UTA coaches I completed to complement it.

C Class from a Modern Traction Kit.

I picked up a C & an A Class Kit by MTK both in the same box with no instructions. After splitting the parts into what I

thought was the A & C kits I decide to try the C Class first.

I used a Hornby Class 25 chassis to provide the power.

Fibre Optics were used to provide the marker lights and a test run showed they worked!

The green of the1960 CIE livery was provided by Revell 365 Satin

Comparing the MTK with the Silver Fox Model the obvious difference is the front profile which appear to me a more accurate

than the Silver Fox but the overall dimensions of the MTK are bigger than the Silver Fox which makes the model out of place

especially beside my other A & C Class models.

Mark 4 Train

After getting a Murphy’s Intercity 201 I had to get a matching train.

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I decided on 3 Standard Class Cars, a Catering Car and the really difficult one the Generator Control Car.

How successful I was I’ll leave to you to decide.