Kevin Sweeney

Thanks for those wonderful photos Leslie. Inspiring stuff, such fine details reproduced on such a small scale, and conversely wonderful to see such detailed scenes executed on such a grand scale. A vanished world recreated, this is where my interest in modelling is increasingly focusing.

I've made a small diorama of my N scale Corrigreenroe Church.

The failure of Irish authorities to protect important historical buildings is a theme that has come up several times on this thread. A notable exception to this is King House in Boyle, Co Roscommon. Built as a family home, it was bought by the British army and became the HQ of the Connaught Rangers. After independence it was an Irish Army barracks, they closed it in 1969. By the late 1980s it was in very poor shape, when it was bought by Roscommon County Council, who done a four year restoration project. It is now a museum, library, and cultural centre. A rare example of an Irish local authority doing it right. Well worth a visit if your in the area. I have a floor plan of the building and am planning to get down there and do a photo survey in the summer. I estimate it would take about 250 hours work to build but it is on my list of buildings I intend to make.

-Plans, photo and map of Belturbet Goods Shed. This is a GNR shed, which fits the theme of your layout.

Some photos of Enfield Goods Shed. The OS maps at geohive.ie would give you the footprint of the building and by counting the bricks it would be easy to workout the heigh.

Here are plans of Crossdoney goods shed. This 6 bay shed was originally built as a 3 bay shed. If your looking for a very simple good shed Enfield would be an easy one to make. If you go to the Cavan County Council planning portal, you can also find plans of the GNR goods shed at Belturbet. I'm very impressed with the collection of interesting buildings on your layout, a great representation of the kind of buildings found in many Irish towns.

I remade Corrigeenroe Church, this time in N scale. I have not used texture sheets for the walls or the plinths, but instead just painted them with white and black acrylic paint. This makes it much easier to hide the joints. On the OO model I used quoins to hide the joints, but the real church has no quoins, so the N scale version is closer to the real thing.

I will be at the Fair on Sunday with a collection of OO card models for sale.