Mike 84C

Maybe I should title this,somthing I have spent to much time on! Two Hornby four wheeled coach bodies spliced together running on a Hornby six wheeler milk van chassis. Roof vents and gas lamp vents from Millholm models. Waiting for transfers and a descision on what colour/shade of dark green to paint it.

Nelson,that is going to be a good looking loco, thanks for posting, please keep us up to speed. I admire your nerve if that was a brand new model! "cos I havnt seen a s/hand C class over here at a sensible price.

I agree with David, start on a simple etched kit to get the feel of things and you will be away!

John, what wonderful things you have there. Like a window to the past and all in such brilliant condition.

Very tasty Wrenneire, did you modify the cab or is that a rebuilt Scot/Patriot?

Guys, did I read a short while ago that one of our group had located a supply of snifting valves for a Woolich Mogul? I have two that I would like to fit some on, I tried the search with no result!

Hi Jim, good photographs of some good layouts a reminder of a very good day. Which Mrs 84C enjoyed! You are the second real person I have met. The Welsh rain in your pictures of the B&M layout looks rather better than I remember when I looked at the layout!

Mike

Great pictures, I rather liked the ones in the fog. Please keep posting.

My sincere condolences to you and your family JHB.

What an amaziing career your father had and such a breadth of experiences, which I am sure he must have relished.

His knowledge of railway subjects will be missed.

Mike

Dave, I can reccomend the brake van as a first kit. It goes together very well. Enniscorthyman has made a fantastic job of the plough van and has glued it together, I soldered my brake van. Both ways work, use whichever you feel happiest with and I am sure Des will offer advice. I put a few comments on the break van feed about how I did a few things. Go for it!

Mike

My stepdaughter works with Network Rail as a track engineer, 10,000 applicants for 240 jobs! being femail helps a lot these days in engineering proffesions. Hated being down at Portsmouth for the theory sessions but now she is qualifed, likes the job, is good at it and the money is staggering! Who knows where she will be in 20yrs "cos the poential is global. So heirflick, go to it with your daughter and your son has missed an oppertunity but maybe something else will come along.

I like Plastic Padding for large holes/gouges and Squadran green putty for small stuff. I rub down with my wifes finger boards, she buys them for me now!, and fine wet and dry strips stuck on a coffee stirer. McD"s never miss them!

Mike

Be happy! your brake vans look rather good and I cannot add any further to the advise the lads have given. Please keep posting your progress.

Nice build there Eamonn, thanks for all the photographs much better than a thousand words. I see no sign of a soldering iron, are you using ACC?

Stay out of the cold shed have a large Paddys or a Bushmills to get warm and a Happy New year. And Des does deserve more credit than he recieves.

Mike

A Merry Christmas to you all and let 2015 be a first class year for the guys on this group and Irish railway modelling.

Anyone dissapointed,like I am in the pointless duplication of models as anounced in the January BRM. Two certain and maybe three manufacture"s to release the Adams 4-4-2 tank. And the WR 1361 0-6-0 saddle tank. A thousand A class, 4/5 different liveries = 200/250 different models could we sell them all within this group? i want a green one! http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/images/smilies/attachment-1.gif

RL, you have a head start with lots of potential, enjoy your new layout and please keep posting.

Mike

PS. your SWIMBO must be a hero! rather like mine.

Nelson, Glenderg posted this picture that Mayner had posted of an H van which may help you.

Excellent build, looks very,very good.

I would also pay for a model to MM standard

an A class

121

C class

H vans

B2 steam loco

I am surprized that an H van is not already available,its a highly visible vehicle in photos of Irish freight stock.

Is it possible to run this survey on RM web? as there seems to be a quite a current of interest for Irish railways in the UK. I was at Spalding last Sunday and Ballyconnell Road always had people watching.

I have the magnetic system from DCC Concepts and it seems to work well on my steam locos. No diesels on my railway yet!

The modules look excellent, high standards are being set. Thank you for posting I shall follow the thread with renewed interest.

I run my airbrush from a small workshop compressor which has a regulator and gauges built in, then use step down fittings to my airbrush hose. Its tank is about two ft long by one ft dia. Cost? about £100 from our local Machine Mart. Its only down side is its bloody noisey! so its a shed or garage job. But I also use it for tyre checking cars bikes etc.

Wow! extreme deep ballasting! But I like the track thats under it, thanks for posting.

Top notch modelling and the weathering just sets the bubbles off.

Looking good from over here and I"m with Glenderg on the weathering from photographs I"ve seen.Push the envelope Nelson! Regards Mike