Flying Snail

Very nice weathering - carriage ends and door areas look great. Interiors look very good too!

Well done to all involved - one (very big) step closer!

It's really effective - you can see the effect through the pictures

This jumped out at me too!! There must be something coming down the line .. lets 'see'

Thanks for posting this Eoin - very interesting. I know its dependent on the material - but how frequently do you have to change blades?

Thanks for posting that Sean - with plenty of pictures its a great reference alright (and very informative on how crossings are managed)

These are all really impressive ... but it's the little cottage that caught my eye, I really like the thatched roof!

Wasn't this topic previously discussed ????

Looking good! How will you manage access to the middle of the room - crawl under the viaduct, or will it be removable?

Very interesting indeed! Really impressive modelling skills .... and we don't see much Irish HO, so very unique! Welcome, and looking forward to seeing more of this project!

Yes, the Bachmann N may be on the long side for this layout ... but it is one of the more prototypically accurate. None of the UK RTRs, including it, are spot on though ..... and layouts are meant to be used - so finding a small shunter that's close enough is probably the better option. It'll be cheaper too

Bachmann N class is another - its showing its age now (nice model but its not designed for DCC). 26 of these SECR locos were exported to Ireland (K1 and K1a class). Bachmann also released them in CIE liveries. Getting your hands on a UK livery to repaint should be easy enough.

Well there were the 'Dicky' Taras .. so you never know, you might get lucky (which would require IRM to get unlucky) but I wouldn't bet on it

Hi Wheelslip and welcome onboard! In terms of RTR industrial stock there isn't much I'm afraid. If you went forward into the 50's you'd have plenty of IRM Bulleid wagons to choose from, and you would be able to pick up one of their green or grey A class locos second hand. For wagons from the GSR period, you'd need to look to kits from the likes of Studio Scale Models (see their GSWR and MGWR convertible wagons) and Provincial Models (they've a few brake vans alongside some GNR wagons). @leslie10646 is the man behind Provincial Models and his kits are easy to put together - especially if you ever tried the likes of an airfix kit. For a locomotive - this is more challenging: you're looking at kits too or repaints of UK outline. IRM do have an 800 in GSR livery on the way, but she would have been doing top-line passenger work in the GSR period. Edit: OO Works did a GSR 101 (J15) class that would work well if you could find one second hand, but they are hand-built and not cheap!

True, but railway modelling is a broad church - many modellers don’t want or need exact prototype fidelity. There's the freelance/“might-have-been” layouts for instance. You've also got the modellers who are modelling a specific company or region, and because this is an era thats faded from living memory and where photographic records and drawings can be sparse, they're happy with something plausible that captures the feel.