Kevin Sweeney

100 euros for the signal cabin and 100 for the cottage. 200 for the station house.

Fear not they are in 4 mm. Even though I normally model in N, when making models to sell I was very aware that 4 mm is the big market in Ireland. If they sell well I will be making more and will be adding more buildings to the range. The plan is to add a MGW goods shed, water tower, engine shed and platform shelter. Once I have those done, I plan to produce the same range of buildings in Great Northern and then in Great Southern. If there is any demand I can also make them in N.

Current state of the Protestant Hall

That's beautiful work Patrick, a wonderful winter scene. I have long been thinking of doing a brick Great Northern Station. I've saved the plan you posted here into my future projects folder.

Front facade of the Protestant Hall is done

I will be at the next fair selling some of my models. I have 3 MGW station houses, 2 MGW signal cabins and a MGW crossing keepers cottage. I will also have a collection of OO track to sell.

After the long campaign required to do the county museum, this one seems easy. I am always attracted to a building that has features I never built before. I like a challenge. It was indeed a beautiful building, we are particularly poor in Cavan at preserving our architectural heritage.

How do you get a stall at the fair, do you just show up on the day or does it have to be booked before hand. I have some OO trackwork and accessories I want to sell.

My next build, Cavan's Protestant Hall. This was until the turn of the century one of the prominent buildings in Cavan Town centre. It belonged to the Anglican diocese of Kilmore, they gifted it to Cavan County Council, who promptly demolished it and built the new county library on the site. This is increasingly my real interest as a model maker, recreating buildings and scenes that are gone.

It took about twice the time that Kilmore Cathedral took to build. Superficially the cathedral looked like a more complex building, but it is one building, the museum has a string of extensions. The cathedral is on a flat site but the museum is on a sloped site. And finally I had the original architects drawings of the cathedral but for the museum I had to work with a photo survey and some screen grabs from drone video I found on Youtube. It took many more hours to do the drawings for the museum, than it did for the cathedral.

Apart from some landscaping the County Museum is done. It took a lot longer to finish than I thought.

Nearly there with the County Museum.

More progress on the County Museum

Making good progress with the County Museum.

There will be an exhibition of my models in Cavan County Museum, in Balljamesduff next April. So I decided to make a model of the County Museum. This building has a series of extensions so I am using card mock ups to work out how it all fits together, another trick I learned from the Chandwell Youtube channel.