jimr

I'm one of those long-time American railroad fans that have been converted to Irish railways. Started 12 years ago on my first trip to Ireland doing an all rail tour. That's when I got hooked. Bought my first Murphy Mark 3 coach before I left for home on that trip. Got back to the States to find out how much more difficult it is to find Irish railway products here. In recent years the Murphy products have been imported, but they're very pricey. I do admit I've splurged on a Murphy 121 and a 141 and a couple of Mark 3 coaches. But for the most part my rolling stock has been repainted lima, hornby, and some other manufactured products that are similar to the prototype Irish products. I'm at an advantage of not being too close to Ireland and that no one in America would know the difference, haha. Each of my successive three trips back to Ireland I picked up what I could find and manage to get home safely. I've even started some conversions for my fantasy railroad, "Irish Rail under wire", electric heavy traction. I had a couple of E60 CP shells that I repainted one in black and tan and the other in silver for freight logistics. I was able to find a hornby class 58 frame for each of them that fit pretty close, just a couple of slight modifications needed. I know it's not prototypical but it's close enough for me. So at the moment I'm trying to wrap up two older layouts and planning to sell those so I can concentrate on building a small Irish format layout.

New in the USA to Irish rail modeling. I was able to get a hold of an AEC class look alike DMU pair in dark green livery. I'm curious how you long time modelers feel about partially respraying a look-alike set. My thought is to leave the lead DMU in it's green livery and respray the trailer unit in black and tan livery. I once saw somebody spray one side and one front end of the set in one livery and the other side and back end in a second livery. So depending on which way you're viewing it, you see two different liveries. I'm sure you prototypical fans hate this idea. But I like the idea of displaying two different time periods. Let me know your constructive thoughts. I appreciate the input.

New in the USA to Irish rail modeling. I was able to get a hold of an AEC class look alike DMU pair in dark green livery. I'm curious how you long time modelers feel about partially respraying a look-alike set. My thought is to leave the lead DMU in it's green livery and respray the trailer unit in black and tan livery. I once saw somebody spray one side and one front end of the set in one livery and the other side and back end in a second livery. So depending on which way you're viewing it, you see two different liveries. I'm sure you prototypical fans hate this idea. But I like the idea of displaying two different time periods. Let me know your constructive thoughts. I appreciate the input.