Mike 84C

Agreed but has the potential to become a bit of a subject for discord! We all have to realize that people see colour in different ways which affects their view/how they relate to it. Take Hornby BR loco green which many modelers rave over. For me its not quite right, too dark but not much. I polished quite a lot of that green but is my memory of near 60yrs ago correct? So I accept we could all be right or wrong. You guys keep posting these images and I'll keep enjoying them as your all much cleverer than me with this computery thingy.

Ahha!, I pick up your case! The man with the brown coat could have a trim on his sleeves of a red materiel maybe leather? He does look a bit flash! But the colourization does make the guard look a bit Indian/North African/ around the Med sort of person? My eye can happily accept the nondescript footbridge as colour does tend to fade into the background with distance but a coach in the foreground which should be green shown as brown and grey? you got me there! Did we ever meet on a WP. on a well known NG railway! PS. Colour has the potential too become a long running thread, like on another group I'm on

ShaneC that's a rather good colourization you have posted. I like it very much thank you but it poses a question, how did men keep their hats on? I wore a cap for much of my working life mainly crammed on my head to keep it on. Look at the position of the gentleman's top hat and cap on the guards head, both look precarious/ very uncomfortable. Or maybe I just have a strange shaped head?

Hi JHB, I took the red/oxide colour from the tender description on page 126 of Shepherd's Cork Bandon & South Coast rly. The tender does state lead paint and I took that to mean red lead as white lead didn't make much sense. I also accept that in 1903/4 most external paint subject to heavy use would have lead in it. There's a photo on page 125. My wagon stays brown!! I apologise; it is the North Kerry Limerick to Tralee volume I was refering to (always check before posting!) I bought it from Parrott Books on line. I think they are in Hemel Hempstead

Is it face to Face or zoom?

Hi JHB, I thought the CBSC green was a sage green? I believe the Bandon also had some of those "tilt" opens with a bar to support the sheet that were painted an oxide red/brown. If I'm wrong mines the wrong colour! I'm sure you are right about the black for some wagons and wheshty is the man for transfers. It was Maunsell who introduced the dark olive green on the SR. PS. i am very happy now I have Rails in Cork and Kerry. Very enjoyable reading.

A very lucky purchase! from the photo its a tasty looking model!

If you look at posts on RmW and read in magazines its pretty obvious why 7mm/ 0 gauge is on the upswing. Many modelers reach a certain age and failing eyesight plus manual dexterity means you cannot see those small parts let alone make or fit them. Also we oldies look at 2mm/N and compare what you get for your £/Euro and the larger scale makes a lot of sense. We are more content with a smaller layout and maybe do not need the lots of trains whizzing around. And with oldies there is often the empty nest syndrome where kids are gone and space is available for a couple to indulge in the hobbies that they always wanted too. That's how it works in this house!

I can only echo David's and Noel's comments. In those suggested formats I'm on board.

NIce video DJ Dangerous but if Rosslare is to be developed as a freeport with increased shipping to the EU then it makes perfect sense to close as many rail links as possible as quickly as possible. Is it called joined up thinking?

GSR 800 thats going to be mighty a mighty fine Railway your building. Your photos keep telling me to get my finger out!! So please keep showing your progress.!

Brilliant presentation Leslie and what a photographer Lance King was. I thought the colour balance in the photos was just stunning, no garish contrasts or strange shades of green or blue. Were they digitally enhanced? And I wish my eye for composition was half as good. Thanks again for a really good show. Mick

On our local news, Pig farmers are really wound up because they cannot sell their pigs at contracted weights so are getting less money. Meanwhile UK supermarkets are importing pigs from the EU and UK pigs are still on farms unable to be exported to the EU. Are these the economics of madness? all the pollution involved? Road transport has always been too cheap in my experience.

Excellent JIm, it must have given a lot of pleasure and thats what its all about.

PM Sent.

Here's a couple of snap's of my K1. It also started out as a BR version. I had forgotten how long ago I had done the conversion .

Hey Fran, I do not think anybody see's you as being negative, you are the guys who take a commercial risk, which with the best of market research is a bit of a wet finger in the wind process. And if the products do not sell then Irish Railway Models departs the market place. So please keep bringing out high quality models which shake up the market place and improve the status of our hobby. I for one would buy steam but would buy anything which fitted into that grey/green era, my chosen field. Meanwhile out with the saw and lets hack(make!) an Irish steam loco from something! Mike

Not a big step from a WT to a W class, that would be rather good.

The Laidlaw-Drew burner is the same type used by the Festiniog Rly in its oil burning days, the burner was fixed vertically in the middle of the firebox with a machined saucer shape on the burner end which sprayed the oil out and a swirler caused the resulting fuel mist to rotate. The result was better fuel mixing with the combustion air coming through the pan plate which in effect replaced the ashpan. The firebox mod's were refactory concrete in the pan plate and cast refactory concrete slabs to protect the firebox foundation ring and the bottom10/12" of the firebox. Be interesting to know how the burner was positioned in CIE loco's. I thought some Big Boys also Challenger's were stoker fitted and burnt black diamonds! If you come across a DVD Winter on JInpeng Pass, lots of double headed QJ 2-10-2's, there is a footplate sequence where the fireman is heaving coal into the firebox as well as the mech;stoker. it's a very good, well filmed dvd. I love to watch times gone by.

Lots of very interesting and well reasoned comments on this thread. For my two pennorth, quite a few years back I suggested getting 461 scanned and getting the makings of a kit. As I remember posters on here came up with a number of legitimate reasons why a kit was not a good idea, others offered to go and scan 461 if money could be found. My feeling is and K801 has hit the nail on the head, younger people will buy models of what they see and for me that puts 461 and No4 right in the frame and does not take any sales away from the likes of SSM or 00 works which I feel is very important as their support has been enjoyed by the hobby for quite a while. As for a model of 800, a little work around a Mainline/ Bachmann Scot or rebuilt Patriot should present a reasonable model, I'll post pictures if mine ever gets finished! Over here in GB a friend whose son, in his twenty's, works for one of the TOC's has a very busy railway in his loft, when I visit its all action but one unit looks the same as another a 66 looks like a 66 but all in very different liveries. No Kings, Duchess's, A4's, Brittania's but he models what he see's. But that is not for me, steam and first generation diesels will do nicely.

The Ikea flatpack dining table is very heavy, the great joy was you can only click and collect, a quick and painless process . You could buy food but not use the toilets!! How does that work?

My copy arrived today, only eight days to get to Lincolnshire! I totally agree with JHB's comments my only disappointment was the flat finish paper instead of gloss which takes photos better. But what a book unseen before photos, dimensions and well reasoned comments. Top marks to the Authors and I shall dive into it as soon as I've built a flatpack dining table from Ikea.!

The biggest PITB would be regauging steam engines. My fleet so far 3 Woolich's 850, Bandon tank , GSWR 0-6-0t, J15, NCC Jinty, and a couple in gestation. Plus five diesels and about 50 items of rolling stock! Just looking at that list suggests I need to build some real estate pronto!

Level crossing gates? maybe an early point indicator but I doubt it.

If I had started with no 16.5 gauge locos and stock. It would be far to expensive to convert, sadly.