LNERW1

This forum is basically solely info dumping so your explanations of gull species are very much welcome. I do find birds in general interesting, despite having only a very basic knowledge of them. And when they're not using my layout/soldering area as a public toilet I must admit I don't have much against them.

Given I’m modelling a seaside location that would probably be a nice detail. Is it just a trickle of paint? Frankly if I was doing it more than likely I’d just use Tipp-ex.

Two tickets for the upcoming IRRS branchline railtour, €50 each or €95 for the both. €80 each original price so heavily discounted- €30 or €32.50 off. Therefore I believe this is not ticket touting, a friend couldn’t come so im selling the tickets on to someone who may be interested. If this is considered ticket touting or is violating any rules or laws please inform me, thanks. Also IRRS has been contacted in regards to a refund but have not responded. If they do, these tickets will not be sold and instead we will get a refund. Please PM if interested. Thanks.

When I woke up this morning, I liked birds. They are impressive creatures and make a lovely sound in the morning, and had never done anything to get on my bad side. A few minutes ago, I was sitting at a table in my back garden, soldering together the track pieces that made up the goods shed road. I was getting a little bit frustrated. I had only managed to solder 6 track joints, they were all messy and only 3 were holding. It was becoming apparent that I didn't know what I was doing. However, I was still enjoying it and was listening to a good podcast, so I decided to keep going. I was about to touch the tip of the soldering iron to the solder when a sound emanated from a spot about two inches from my hand. It was a mixture between a plop and a splat and came, more precisely, from the area between the loop and shed road I today scraped clean of clay. I looked up and saw a yellow-white sludge with a few black-brown nuclei sitting smack bang in the middle of my layout. I no longer like birds.

I think I’m going to try running over the clay with a lot of wet fingers. It’s a technique I’ve seen used often and it seems to work well.

I do have older stock with coarser wheelsets so I prefer to use a 10c coin. Rolls along nicely too.

Progress report. Just a quick one really. The railway room has been rescued from a suffocating layer of random debris and Ardree Quay has risen. No work has actually been done but the next project is to improve the track- soldering the track joints, painting rail sides, completing ballasting and re-doing the inset rails and quay surface in DAS clay. This is a fairly defined and straightforward task, and can be done with materials and tools I already have to hand, so hopefully I can do a little bit of this in the coming weeks, maybe as a way to decompress after school.

It’s an estimate not a deadline. I think…

Most of my housemates (well technically family but housemates sounds cooler) are in Galway at the moment so I don’t have any additional manpower to exploit. This unfortunately means I have to wait until later to start clearing up, but rest assured the debris removal process will begin within the next 36 hours. Or maybe days. No, let’s go with hours.

VERY BIG MAYBE INCOMING! The Easter holidays have furnished me with half a month of absolutely nothing to do and, honestly, I have done nothing. So, if my complete lack of dedication, work ethic or positive attitude to anything manages to not get in the way of tidying up my railway room and getting the layout going again, there might be a bit of progress here. Now I realise my layout is not exactly the star of the forum but I feel a bit hypocritical starting so many playground spats on a model railway forum without having a (currently running) model railway. So, over Easter Ardree Quay- if I don't fall into a coma from inactivity- will be pulled out of the deep piles of rubble, steel, books, Lego, files, unwanted ornaments and stationery currently piled several feet high in my railway room and have some scenic work done over Easter (insert hilarious and original comparison to Jesus rising from the dead because nobody's ever done that before). Again, massive maybe but please do hound me to complete this as only peer pressure on a model railway forum can make me do anything. Hugs and kisses, LNERW1

Looks even better in person- what a pleasure to see the layout and to meet the brilliant @Tullygrainey. Not a bad word to say about either.

It's just going to Tyrone.

I will be. Looks like a lovely layout to see in person and I'd be thrilled to meet the mastermind behind it, as well as many other brilliant projects.

On the fence about going but now I definitely want to. I wouldn’t miss this for the world.

Looks wonderful. I’d love to have a layout like that. You really should be proud of that.