Glenderg

Rob, what you'll need is dependent on your choice/time period. You'll need a colour printer - An inkjet is a must, laser is rubbish. Even a bog standard Multifunction type one will crank out the goods, it if has the ink cartridge cleaned [via the printer driver settings] and is set to high quality. For printing the likes of the signs above, you'd do it on 160 - 230 gs/m card/paper, available in all art shops/Eason/WH Smith shops. Check your printers max paper setting online. Any of the printers of the last few years with a rear feed tray, or that can take photo paper will be more than adequate. The enamel signs [Wills Cigarettes/Raleigh Bicycles/Vim] and modern perspex enclosed timetables/posters should really be printed on glossy paper, or else printed on normal card, and a thin piece of acetate placed on top. Any other of the more recent ones can be printed on matt or heavyweight paper/card. The shine left long ago. It's always a good idea to spray them with Matt Enamel Varnish, so it seals them from accidental water/beer damage. I'll have proper instructions once I have the sheets assembled, and if it's a bit stressful Rob, I can run em off and post them. €1 plus postage would cover costs I reckon? This is kind of a not-for-profit/not-for-loss enterprise! TTC - this what you're looking for or have I misunderstood? Does it need to be in B&W? I have the text for the bus one, but no reference to the original billboard/poster. Cost? Buy me a pint sometime... Richie.

Evening All, I've been working on putting together packs of signage for buildings and stations, and I have assembled a ton of them. They'll be split into relevant time periods to suit. I'm hoping that I'll have them all finished about a week before Christmas, so you ye can liberally decorate your buildings, platforms, and car parks with IE signs, turkey leg in gob.... These packs will be free incidentally - no restrictions on use! However, there are plenty quirky ones still out there that I'd like to put into the packs.As photos or whatever, they don't have to be perfect just a bit straight-on would help. Trawl around, post up what ye have, it's all for a good cause. "Each year an Irish Model Railway Layout needlessly starves. This Christmas, Please, give what you can." Richie. Unfinished Samples below, but the finished ones will be to 00 scale. Over two hundred in total so far....

Modern o'connell street is shadow of her former glory, and if you could build from the first floor up it would have some style. Unfortunately the ground floor of most of it is grubby and cheap. And as for trams, well you'd have to wait a few years before they get the grangegorman link finished. Hopefully by then DCC will have put the main street of the capital city on a priority list to be developed as a European capital boulevard.

As seen on the north strand recently - "A friend with weed is a friend indeed"

dr. Quirkeys good time emporium, spar shops and a lack of trams could make for a fairly naff model. Would a "what might have been" model work instead?

I think this is the type of grey, albeit neglected and workstained, you need ... Well looked after loco http://transportsofdelight.smugmug.com/RAILWAYS/IRISH-RAILWAYS/CORAS-IOMPAIR-EIREANN-STEAM/18279129_TbnP49#!i=1461158857&k=WzPtLJj No clue on colours but asume badly stenciled and well faded! R.

Heres a quick snap from Limerick Junction a few years ago - google maps - All four types in one shot.

Good man fitz! (i'd a pi**ed it up against a wall be now!) Fingers crossed.

Hey Dave, I was looking at your plan and a few thoughts came to mind. Since you have a skinny area on the right hand side, it would make an excellent place for an over the top suspension bridge, 6 foot long, the works, pillars, cables - rather than a layout bit. Show off your woodworking skills too. Then I was looking at the Hornby magazine and there was a layout called Stoney Lane Depot in N gauge. Here it is. See the curve as the plastic thing navigates the top of the viaduct, well I thought that something at higher level could do something similar in your scheme like this The lower yard could easily work away in the peninsula (?) and a link under the purple curve bridge could snake behind in a scenic section along the left hand side, unseen, and rejoin the main line in front of the window, a manulla junction type section. The upper left hand corner a station? I think that with enough rising and falling landscape and track, you could have a pretty prototypical irish looking layout, without all the buildings like stoney lane. sorry for getting carried away, jealousy is a wicked drug. Richie.

Great space Dave, a cut roof is a rare thing these days. Theres some real "blast from the past" stock on the layout, the freightliner and car transporter in particular! Keep the photos flowing, no matter how much progress happens!Richie.

"God is in the Detail" - Mies Van de Rohe - get the small things right and the finished item will sing!

Where you based tommy? I have a fair bit of stuff sat ina box for the last 5 years that your welcome to - ballast, figurines, trees and such lifted from architectural models. You can have it for the price of a pair of pints. I have a spare goods shed too if you want it. Richie.

Broithe. You can't see him, but look closely. He'll pounch when you least expect it.

Shoulda been a dirty bird.... Polis wagon with ponytail..... hmm wonder who that might be.

Any idea what part of munster you're thinking of hosting it in? Cork city I assume?

Sweeeeeeeeet! You planning any fancy LED/Flux Capacitor things - (signals?) to remind you the gate is locked before your stock flies off at a nice rate of descent?

And have done for some time. An electric 100 Ton Crane, built in Hamburg Germany, started operating on the North Wall Quay Extension 1905. These are BR containers of fruit being offloaded and moved to transit sheds along the North Wall (long gone). Note the Flying Snail on the transit vehicle door. DUTC/CIE. R

Damn, that's another keyboard ruined with the drool... great find Patrick!

He's got an 087 number and an eircom email address, and a huge neck for trying to punt on everyone else's work - SSM & "Muphy Models" as his own. Wow David, stunning work

More photos of her - copyright by the respective owners. http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/6785061870/ http://eiretrains.com/Photo_Gallery/Railway%20Stations%20I/Inchicore/slides/Inchicore_20060908_031_CC_JA.html An Anthony special methinks... R.

Lovely work GM, and nice little bench layout. A pity 'bout the derailing. Is it a weight issue over the bogies or just a swivelling problem?

All ok anto? Get well soon big lad! Richie

Nice work Seamus. I'm sure I have photos of that crane somewhere in pristine condition..I'll look for it later. Bing maps is great for rotating the view to see oblique angles, here are the four available for the crane. http://www.brassjacket.com/GLENDERG/Inchicore_Cranes_crop.jpg

Better take a copy of the photos then before they get updated!

Nice work, it'll be interesting to see how you deal with the double slip ballasting.