Glenderg

http://eiretrains.com/Photo_Gallery/Railway%20Stations%20A/Attymon/slides/Attymon_20050615_0001.html A fine replica of the real thing. Very impressive. The model looks as good as the real thing, even more impressive when it's hand painted.

No, that's not what I'm saying. If it's a registered trademark, such as Guinness or Coca-Cola, you cannot use it without permission. You can buy a blank t-shirt and spray the guinness logo on if you want, i doubt they'll get lawyered up and tell you to bin it. You start making Guinness tee-shirts, giving them out free or for money, and you're in trouble. Now items such as IE logos are not protected in the same manner since they are "corporate branding" and not registered. They may send you a "cease and desist" if whatever practice you are engaged in does not conform to their corporate image or if you are "passing off" items claiming to be theirs. Like if you made mugs with their logo, they'd be entitled to come after you. When it comes to Hornby and Bachmann etc, say using the DB Shenker Logo, they do not pay either. There are agreements - Memoranda of Understanding - between the two that limit how logos are used for the model maker, but DB Shenker inherently get free advertising from the model. So it's a horse trade, and each deal between a model maker and corporate will be different. If it were punitive and costly to get their logo used, we'd have nothing but copyright expired steam era companies to work with and no Virgin Voyagers etc. When it comes to IE logos for decals, you do not have to ask permission. Because the creator of the work is the decal maker, by research, drawings and graphic work. He is the originator of it. That's why he has a big ass copyright sign on all his decal sheets. Bottom line is that as long as you do all the hard graft yourself and can prove with certainty that you are the originator, you are fine. Also if you stick a guinness sign on a Fitzgeralds Pub, you don't have to get permission either, because it is part and parcel of the look - you are not advertising guinness. I have the case-law references if you want them for both UK and Ireland. Both my brothers are solicitors, one in London specialising in Intellectual Property and the other here with a masters in copyright law. Christmas dinner is mighty craic altogether! Does that make sense or I have just made things more confusing? Richie.

Nope. Since it's not available to purchase there are no licensing issues I'm breaching. Second, I'm not actually using the font, I'm recreating it, and all the work is mine. Third - I'm not distributing it at all, not even for profit, and lastly I'm not gaining in any way financially from it. If I were hawking repro signs to the likes of Bracken, passing them off as originals, then I'd be in for the high jump. After all it's for tiny card signs for model railways!

Merciful hour, oh the hot flushes are back!

Alan Fitzpatrick did the font for Creative Inc., a rehash of CIE2000 that was the previous font. It has nor ever will be distributed, except to pro printers for Annual Reports etc. http://www.creativeinc.ie/index.php/portfolio/detail/iarnrod_eireann

Is there not a sexy little CIE 40' container taking pride of place in that yard Pat? And as for Limerick, there's a massive gantry crane... greatful for small mercies as me mam says...!

Wasn't easy, and IE ain't helping. But if I get a full alphabet font [still missing G, X,W,Y,Z etc.] I'll let you know des. You "may" have use for it!

Ha ha, I have been notified about this "oversight" on my part - i don't drive - but the twishty roads around the dingle tend not to have markings, nor room for another vehicle to pass - take note german tourists going the wrong way round the ring of kerry when the bus eireann + rear convoy has to reverse , so i'll fix the image, and possibly stick a few sheep in the background? Would happy come your way then?

Dont mind the pale one .... "Behold the dark horse. The man who sat upon him was Headless and the Beejaysus was scared out of you" Richie.

Good man Rob, glad someone's counting!

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It's pure mad altogether, but a nice blast from the past all the same. Here's one I did for FrankS for the craic, don't ask me how I got the most elusive font on the planet...... R

I think it was in November's issue of BRM/Hornby/Model Rail... would love to know how it goes. I've done something similar using cigarette ash and spray glue, but each to their own!!!

Hope I'm not breaking any rules here, but it anyone would like to shuffle through the misery of political toilet paper that has been handed out on this fine island since Moses was a youngfella, check out this blog - http://irishelectionliterature.wordpress.com/ It might make for interesting time placement of a layout, but perhaps too fixed. If anyone wants one to suit a billboard poster that can be moved about, PM me and I'll sort it out. Richie

That start up, squeal and all, has the exact same tonal qualities as the sound of a can of Guinness opening!

Most excellent, thank you sir!

'Bout time you came back..... * then reads post * Absolutely goddamn knock-the-slates-off-the-roof stunning. That a-class is blow for blow as good as anything i've seen out of the murphy stable, and is a feather in the ceapin for weshty to boot. Painting and decals all bang on, some of the finest work i've seen for sometime. And scratchbuilt too. Heaven sent. Glad that you're back on form and settled. Richie.

No bother lads, working on some of the older types now. A few more samples to encourage more "donations" to the pot. And my peculiar take on the "lost in kerry" Expressway! Let me know if you'd prefer a different background... Richie.

Just watched all three episodes. Christ on a bike. - Idiots from IE advertising their current wares. - Transport gurus who talk for a free lunch and know bugger all about rail. Is Brian Mac Aonghusa still with us? - Dublin-centric to a sickening level. - Full of errors - "Rail and car were in competition since the advent of the internal combustion engine" Steam trains, love? - "In the eighties the Enterprise service was launched" nope. google it dummies. - Music - Die Hard one minute, introspective chill the next. Was this a school project for a couple of young ones in Blockrawk Cawledge? Is should have been called "How the DART saved the Culchies"

I'm having visions of the Titfield Thunderbolt! Nooooo

This it?

I was in Mallow on Saturday, and I wouldn't say they have "replaced" the signage - just added a lot more. They have signs going back to CIE/supertrain era[fair play to them] Connolly is now festooned with this mish-mash corporate blue guff also, cos some Risk Assessment clown is afraid someone will wander off a platform if the distinction between orange and white can't be read, so BLUE and white arrived. Madness. Leave us a little bit of orange, for crying out loud....

Ha Ha, I remember a couple of those signs from Snappers thread! Good use sir, and I love how your layout looks busy without being tooooo busy, if you know what I mean! That said, yer man with his hands in his pockets might do well to lift some of that beet off the track shoulder and least look busy. Or is he a supervisor?

Technical here, but if you have a laser printer that used for producing colour brochures regularly, and what is on screen matches what is printed, then it's sound usually. But both printer and monitor have to be calibrated proper, or else you get super saturated prints that will look like CIE posters on E! Since laser printing burns the ink onto the sheet, it can curl it awkwardly too, so best do a test run with a heavy sheet. Laser paper has a nice shine on it though, so up's and down's to it. R. Sound, will do tomorrow evening. R.