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Very nice design work, that looks sheer class.

Its coming together really well. I particularly love the pier with the sea moss effect.

Looking great.

Lovely mix of windows and textures in the terrace of house's a real Irish scene.

Way a head of you on that, have tried everything including adding borax to pva, trust me these guys are very intelligent and can wait for a long time and find alernative ways of going about their business. Most cemicals have a life span including borax (about 6 months and these guys seem to now that!!). In terms of spiders they will disapear around the months when spiders are most active only to re-emerge later. I have tried the organic method of using diatomaceous earth and the non organic full suit up with mask and napalm the place both don't work!! Now I have learned to embrace them and welcome them as part of my layout!!!

Can't wait to see this with the stone on it etc.

Nice work, I love that single storey industrial building and shed.

That looks very nice. I love the window detail.

That's a great resource Noel. Where do you normally order your Kadee stuff from? I was looking at DCC Concepts rather than going through Kadee themselves. Also would the delayed uncoupler between the rail fit on code 75 track as c100 is highlighted.

Fantastic as always.

Thanks for the supportive comments lads, its much apprechiated. The photo's are an accumulation of work on the layout over the past 2 or 3 years, mainly in the winter months as other hobbies take over when the sun is out. I've been trying different modelling techniques over this time. Originally I was using printed imagery on card, which is a very nice and quick way of working but a family of Silverfish (all 1000 of them) took up residence in the attic and love anything starchy like photo's or printed material. This drove me nearly mad and nearly away from the layout altogether as every time I went to work on it huge area's would be eaten away. I'm now relying more on das clay and plastic as my preferred medium's using card as the substructure. But Silverfish will eat anything including the pva for ballast, static grass you name it!! (You got to love them though! they've been on this planet alot longer than us and probably will be still here long after we've vacated. In terms of my overall progress, I always viewed this as a long term project to be built over many years (20 plus or so). In order to tackle this and out of necessity to the space I'm working in I've split the layout into 3 main sections. (1) 'The Yard' I've nearly completed this part. (2) 'The Main Station' the next and most exciting part. (3) 'The Tunnel' which will connect both area's. I break each section down into separate diorama's that feed into each other, for instance the current section has about 5 dioramas that I'm working on. The Shed area links to the lower Glanmire Rd/bridge area which links to the Beales Hill/footbridge area. Most of the area's can be easily disassembled for working on down stairs but is not suitable for exhibition traveling. They've been times when I loose a little interest in the hobby and I have to walk away from it for a while but I always keep tabs on the great work that's been shown on this website and come back with renewed vigour. Thanks again.

I've been promising to show some progress photo's on this for a while, so better late than never.

Studio Scale Models. http://www.studio-scale-models.com/Freight.shtml

Loving the work Warb. I'm applying a similar process for making my windows. I use autocad to design with and then use .25mm plastic sheet cut with a diecutter built up in layers. I'm always interested in new techniques and was wondering how much a laser cutter similar to yours would cost and would it cut styrene sharply or would it melt?

No. I remember there was someone doing Cobh Junction on its own. But it was quite a while back and might have been the old web site.

There was someone had started doing Cobh Junction (Glounthaune) on here or maybe it was the old web site. I remember they had done a survey of it but I'm not sure if it progressed any further. Cobh Station itself would be a great choice to model. So many options....with North Esq or Marino Point as optional sidings. Which one(s) are you thinking of doing?

Loving the work Warb. A real labour of love.

Very slowly moving forward Mr Bob. I will update with some photo's in the next couple of days.

Just came back from a miserable game of golf to see this. Thankyou for putting a smile back on my face. Being looking forward with bated breath for these for a long time.

The new mobile phone's my kids were looking for christmas has just been downgraded to a pack of marbles each. These look way too nice!!

I don't doubt the finished item will look the dogs danglies and really looking forward to this one.

Not sure if this has been picked up or its the angle of the render, but the scale looks a little out here.

Looks like its going to be a beauty!! Great modelling job Richie.

Very Nice. Richie tutorial please!!

Separate option would be great, thanks.