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Ah, thanks Richie, that's what I was looking for. You are always a great help in here, guys! That's really great!

Hello, on the site of antics I found a description of the different colours they offer. At the bauxite colour is described that BR hat grey wagons wich were only hand braked and bauxite wagons that were vacuum braked. Now my question is: Do the same regulations also apply to C.I.E.? And in addition: Since when were unbraked wagons piped and would they have been able to bee combined freely with braked ones (as this was for example on mainland Europe)? And at least: If one makes a train of wagons and a brake van: Is the brake van braked manually by the guard or is it braked by vacuum brake through the whole piped train between loco and brakevan? Thanks in advance, Gerhard.

Well, I don't think its an error. Everybody who did not buy a MkII genny in former times has now a problem if he wants to have an adequate EGV for the announced MkII coaches. As a result the prices of the gennies are quite high now, at least that's my impression. About the 201s: I know its rather a question of what pleases whom but the difference in price to ehattons is only 7 p. stg, so I don't see a real sensation. And we all got to know more than one time that Irish local dealers mostly can't offer prices like these big stores do. Looking at Graham's modelshop.ie, some of the 201s are only 10 EUR more, which could be a reason to go local, doesn't it? But in the end everyone has to decide on his own. Neverthelsess I agree to Anthony.

Hello all, concerning the tanishness of the first livery I found this picture on the internet, in my opinion original livery, snatchers already removed though. Well visible also the white roundel with the off-normal CIE letters and the difference in shade to the near Metrovicks. http://railwayherald.com/imagingcentre/view/231633/IS410025011364455632 Perhaps rather for the ebaywatch section: Another snatcher anyone? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Irish-Railway-Lineside-Electric-Train-Staff-Manson-Exchanger-/310638475106?pt=UK_Collectables_Railwayana_RL&hash=item48537ef762 I have to add its one of a fixed installation, not of a locomotive. Cheers, Gerhard.

Hi Fishplate7, that's really a great video, very inspiring! Thank you very much!

Oh yes, indeed. Still waiting for my 080...

Yes, very interesting! Perhaps this can encourage me to try it myself, until now I still hesitated...

Another possibility would be to make an u-shaped channel from 1 mm polystyrene shet that fits into the bridge, paint it in a decent grey and balast it separately as scahalane suggested. The advantage is that you can form the ballast in the way you want an no ballast stone will fall apart from the board; inaddition the polystyrene will not warp if getting wet.

Looks nice indeed. I presume the rolling stock depicted on the last photo is not included...

Do you have any books on cie/ir? There are even colour pictures in some of them. By this, I got to know they had at least two liveries, green and black. Due to copyright reasons it is alas not possible to post the pictures here. One is in the "colour picture books" of Tom Ferris, another one in the Irish traction Diesels booklet. I myself did not find any picture from the left hand side, presuming the coolers are on the front and the cab on the backside. I would also be interested in such a picture. Until now I hesitated about converting a 08 class because of the cases at the sides; now, thanks heirflick, I know they are removable, thats really great! About that bargain: I could not find one for 49 whatevers, be it pound stg or Euro(n)s. Did you already buy them all?

Hi Rob, the ones you put a link to are those which are described as "hinged" on MIL. The older ones look otherwise, they really consist of two separate shells. The design was changed some years ago because if you had an old egg, it was possible to shoot one half with the other which indeed was great fun for children (I also did so a bit more than only some years ago:)) but due to environmental aspects this is no more accepted (and probably also no more pc either, war games....) The term that was used over years for these chocolate and toy arrangements was "Überraschungsei" which is transcribed !"Ueberraschungsei". I made an easy link for everyone wanting those capsules: http://www.ebay.de/sch/i.html?_nkw=%C3%9Cberraschungsei+kapsel&_sacat=0&_odkw=%C3%9Cberraschungsei&_osacat=0&_from=R40 The link is constructed as a search so if ebay does not change its selling system this link will be functional over a long time, always providing the items for sale now. But beware: You will get lots of work, the capsules are sold in big batches... Cheers, Gerhard. P.S.: The ones that are best suited are the oldest ones. The newer ones have thos rings on the ends, but these can be cut off or sanded down on most of them. The ones with rings exist also in a shape with one ring and one kind of pushed-out section, cutting that off leaves a hole in the centre of the end; "Klapp-Kapseln" are those hinged ones.

Only little space for the feet, looks a bit uncomfortable...

If so, and if not posted until now, here three links to youtube; would any admin be so glad to put this post to the right place? [video=youtube;FjyEsh-dCmM] Cheers, Gerhard.

Hi David, on Monday modelshopbelfast announced on facebook that the blank decoders from Zimo were received and are programmed this week, should ship end of the week or so. Cheers Gerhard.

As I've seen the prototype now, I got another idea: look for ships modellers. Perhaps you cand find railings with four rails there, I know that exists in many varations from RTS (ready to swim) or as etched kits.

BTW: For only 37.08 EUR more (at this time) you can get this little set of two: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HORNBY-2-x-CIE-IRISH-RAILWAYS-HYMEKS-LOCOS-/190787674228?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item2c6bd4e074

What a shame this poor guy has to sell that all. If he would have taken the time to put every single item on ebay he would have earned at least thrice of what he will gain. Hope this will never happen to one of us...

Yes, I thougt this Question would come up I will make some photos in the next few days, please forgive me, if it takes a week or even longer, I am fighting with my camara and the artificial light that I need in this time of the year when I come home from work. Last friday I tried to take pictures from the sentinel with its new coupler and real coal, but the camara would not focus on this all black little monster. For details from the Inside of the Baby GM I will take photos when fitting the decoder to another loco; yesterday I read on facebook that the modelshop in belfast got new blank decoders from Zimo so I hope the order of my friend will also be served so I can get my one in two weeks time or so. Some hints for now: When you remove the cabin interior, pay attention to the little rectangular black plates that are put between the light conductors to divide red from white. Losing it causes the light shining trough to the other lenses. Also make shure that the black isolation tape will not fold down when refitting, this would prevent the light from the LEDs getting to the light conductor which means the marker lights would be dark, even if the LEDs are lit. Prevent the tape from getting between the chassis and the cabin case, if otherwise you will have a nasty gap. The polaritiy of the LEDs is marked clearly with + and - on the pcb; you just need to know which side of the new LED is + and which -. In my case on the backside of the LED is a green T-shaped mark that indicates the polarity. I've got a digital multimeter that, if switched to diode test, lightens the LED on a dim level, so I could easily try out in which direction the new LEDs must be mounted on the pcb, comparing the measurement on the old diods on the pcb with the result of the loose new ones. I also will include pictures when opening the other locomotive. Cheers, Gerhard.

Done

I now managed to fix the blueish lights on B 188. As recommended I used yellow colour, but I tried out to use a Schneider permanent marker, thats quite close to an edding marker but another producer. For the big LED that tured out quite well, i coloured the LED itself and the ligh conductor on the LED side. Colouring it also on the other end turned out to become to yellowish, rather like an old french headlight, so I rubbed it away there. For the SMD LEDs I did not come to succes via this method, I instead changed them wich took me some 15 minutes, the longest part of the process being the polarity check. Thanks for your help Gerhard.

Can't say it any better. What is, in my opinion, really bad about the new logo is that it doesn't have simple coloured areas but colours changing from one side to the other. Besides beeing rather modernish the inventors don't seem to have thougt about the nature of a logo. It should be easily recognised even in dim light and without necessity of seeing the colour. Every older cie/ir/ié logo from the flying snail onwards could be applicated to surfaces in nearly every colour. The new logo seems to match on exacly one background: White. In my eyes a good logo must fit to every colour and must be that simple that it is possible to make a b/w copy on witch everybody clearly recognises. In former times logos were made so that they could be printed, cast or made in vitrous enamel, it was an art like creating posters with only two or a few printing colours. Times gone by, as it seems... the new logo is a product of "generation photoshop". Concerning the flag aspect: Is it only hazard that the "arrow of indecision" is rather "N" shaped or will NIR adopt the same logo, perhaps in different colours?

Hi Anthony, i will try this suggestion first, sounds good!

Hi all, yesterday an all new 188 arrived and I could not wait to make the first changes to it. First I had to cut down the bearings for the couplers to allow the bogies to turn with the front closing parts mounted. After that, I looked at the additional parts. Putting in the horns needed a bit of cutting on them, but worked out well. In the package a black mushroom shaped piece of plastic can be found, would anybody please be so glad to tell me where to fit that? Then I opened the case and took a look into it. New questions... I heared about a problem concerning the cab lights when using a "normal" 21 pin decoder. I could not find any cab light LEDs so far. Are they only fitted in the new 071s? Then I took of one of the cab interiors to look after the LEDs for the head lights. In the loco are four of them; one red (SMD), two little white ones (also SMD) (all three for the marker lights) and one really huge one for the two big lamps in the middle of the front (btw: what are they called?) I wanted to replace all white LEDs because I presume in the 1960s no one would have had xenon or LED fitted lights. For the SMD ones this seems to be feasible as they are from the common 0603 shape from which I had ordered a batch for different modelling purposes some weeks ago. The huge one is of a unknown design to me, a square base and a round head. Did anyone already make an attempt to change these LED to more yellowish ones and if so, which ones could be used? Another question is about the 181s in more modern IR livery. With the model I have two antennas are delivered. Alas i could not find any foto showing where to put them (btw: the above mentioned mushroom shaped thing is orange in this case). Any help is much appreciated. Cheers, Gerhard.

I did not find it mentioned, but Hattons has som bargains on the cravens coaches, especially the first class version which is 32 pounds stg.

Hehe, or like sticking a CIE broken wheel adhesive on the front of a Hymek, talking abot the class 20... to be clearer: Why shold a private person not do the same as Hornby or the earlier Murphy? I alas am not that deep into irish railway as I want to but to identifiy the class 20 or a Hymek as wrong is not that difficult as, for example, the question about the UTA carriages I linked two days ago.