Mike 84C

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

Hi guys, didnt know wether to post this as its a ----take against myself! I do a lot of my modelling in the conservatory, good light, out of the way usual stuff. Windows have roller blinds, small desk under south facing window, got the picture? desk has a angle poise lamp with a magnifing glass. I went out on Sunday to Peterborough show, left blinds up so the cat was happy sleeping in the sun, conservatory got hot , lamp drooped, sun moved across the windows and focussed on the tender of one of my Bachmann Woolworths. They do melt! My only bit of luck was The tender is not a blob but a sort of creased side. And I hope I have recovered it with filler and lots of rubbing down, the other luck was it was"nt a Murphy Models version but one I got hold of to do a very heavy weathering exercise on. You all know what the moral of this tale is. So be carefull!! and stop laughing!! Now!! Mike

Good to see you have your modelling mojo up and running again. I shall enjoy watching such a meticulous build. hope its not too slow as I would like to see the finished loco! Mike

Spot on Noel, what a fantastic sight and sound I can only imagine what a hundred going on a raid sounded like. Ear shattering! was with my wifes cousin when we saw the pair in flight and her husband just dropped into the conversation that he was a rear gunner and shot down whilst flying Lancasters. My respect for him rose immesurably.

Thank you very much Glenderg, I asked because they always look as if the wheelbase is more than 10ft, perhapse its because most photographs are taken from an angle and the low roofline decives the eye.

No worries DiveController let me know if you cannot find the photos you need, I can always ask.