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I believe that mine arrived today, according to report from the ancestral home.

I was even good enough to put a big custom sticker on the box saying "Adult Toys", just to make sure the postie didn't get the wrong idea.

The vast majority or Irish orders will land tomorrow, and I've spoken to most customers regarding delivery. However, given the volume of parcels/tracking numbers, and the fact that we're volunteers, I've not had time to email each person with a tracking number. If anyone has an urgent need for a tracking number, please email me on richard@irishrailwaymodels.com and I'll send it first thing.

(Hospital appointments/away for work, that sort of thing)

R.

David, fire me over any info you have, I can help with fonts, decals or masks for spray painting. Email address is richard@irishrailwaymodels.com

Richard

I recently rescued an old-style cooker hood from a kitchen make-over, with the intention of constructing some sort of small spray-booth affair with it.

 

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I have opened up a similar one before, to fix it, and the motor was an induction affair, with no brushes to give cause for concern over igniting solvent vapours. I'm hoping that I find this one to be the same.

Nonsense, but if any man can make it work!!!

Just a word of caution if spraying varnish either from an air brush or using a rattle can aerosol. Strongly recommend not spraying in the same room as other model rolling stock otherwise there is a risk the glazing on the other stock may go opaque. Using an air spray booth with a fan that ducts the air to the outside may avoid this. This happened to me recently when the glazing on a loco and a coach eight feet away from the area I was spraying varnish both opaque on the side nearest the work bench. This was obviously caused by convectional air currents in the room that carried suspended varnish in the air. You live and learn! Recently when doing the 121 and C class locos I used an outdoor area to prevent a repeat.

I don't think convection currents are to blame. In 8 years of spraying, even with all windows closed, I've never seen this happen, nor heard of it happening from anyone in the respray community.

If you're using a 0.5mm nozzle with the needle pulled back to open out the nozzle, the "blunderbuss" technique, maybe then.

Are you sure it isn't glue fumes inside the stock that's caused it?

Anyway, the fix is to get a jobby of brake fluid and using a small 000 brush, coat the glazing only. After twenty minutes you should have clear glazing.

Make sure it doesn't touch other paintwork though.

Humbrol make a clear gloss varnish that will restore glazing to clear, designed for aircraft canopies on models that have gone cloudy.

HTH

Richie

Thanks wrenn!

If you get out the magnifying glass, you'll find that the tampo'd makers plates also have the exact number of the wagon depicted, and not just a generic number.

We should have done a few more with the faded old numbers, I think it works really well. Be nice to do a pack D with new numbers...

Richie

The flyover gig a few years ago in dublin with the A380 was a sales pitch . Aircraft leasing is big business, going back to Guinness Peat Aviation. Issue is that when a large company buys a couple of billion of boeing/airbus through here, it screws up our GNP, even if we get very little from it, and results that we have to pay more to the EU, as it looks like we're making a lot of coin on the books.

Thanks Ernie. Those will be an excellent source of reference, especially the beautiful colour ones

 

I am still waiting (over 1 month) on the IRRS to respond to my email about the scale drawing of Dublin Bridge Station. Does anyone have a contact in the society that I could email directly or alternatively, know of any other source where I may be able to get the drawings from?

Alas no. The Architectural Archive in Merrion Square normally houses all the buildings of note, drawings and photos for Ireland, and for some bizarre reason, they lie, inaccessible, in Heuston. R

Noel, Eoin "super boffin" of DART fame makes some excellent bogie sideframes for the C-class that have real "meat" to them, and I'd recommend getting some, if he has any to spare. The GM sideframes just look totally wrong, and they're easy the remove. When you think of it, the only real detail on the C class is below the skirt, battery boxes, bogies etc. so if you can up the spec there, you'll have a tasty model.*

*aside from the fact that the front looks like it got a belt of a shovel, and the windows are at the wrong height and size.

That's the Saturday that some of us will be in Limerick on the RPSI tour - what about Friday 5th?

6 pm ? Reads Store Street Friday 5th? Wally be up for it surely if he's not in Albufeira, and a few other heads?

So - a "meetup"? Suitable dates - anyone?

Saturday 6th May, 2:30, just off the Busaras Luas Stop? Happy to have the craic with all and sundry, chat about methods,paint, how to get it wrong (i'll bring examples of screw ups) and whatever else comes to mind.

Reads in Store Street is the spiritual home of IRM, grub is great, stout even better. Happy to organise something if ye fancy. R.

 

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You've no idea how happy I am to see me little ladies grace a layout!

*I am claiming them as mine, despite the fact that without the other three lads, twouldn't have happened at all!

That's tidy, but i especially appreciate the lamp irons, no mean feat, but every little detail helps. Whip off one of them monster couplers though, for the tail end charlie R.

Thank God, i was starting to get worried.

:dancing::dancing:

If I could say what I want to say about a certain courier, I'd end up in the High Court. We were starting to get really worried when one of us had to don a pink high vis....!

Cheer's Fran, roll on next week. If there is any spare cash hanging around get the van pimped out IRM style.

 

Enjoy Bangor,

 

Rich,

Nope, all gone. I believe Garfield bought 24" chrome rims for the van in a spot on the Warrenpoint Road....

I've forwarded on his CV of work to our HR department, and as of this moment we will keep it on file, in a filing cabinet.

Kindest regards,

R.

Great to see Noel. Worthwhile spending a bit on better masking tape ? Thoughts? R

Dave,

You might politely suggest to Silverfox that there are two shades of orange, RAL 2011 and tan as perfected by Phoenix Precision Paint, rather than the in between shade that they seem to use for both liveries. I'm trying to be as sensitive as possible here.

R.

This is the donor wagon. No idea what the dimensions are.

The heating/luggage vans were 30' long, so thats 120mm long in 00.

I do Tony. I'll dig it out of the archives in the morning for you. R.

bren you can have a loan of a nurse....

 

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What goes around.. 😜

Rich,

Lot to be said for taking yer time and doing things right...company motto and all that! Pics please

Possible solution. Add a passing loop centrally and have the outer less complex road for through traffic?

Top of the drawer stuff as always Eoin, your photos are always a joy.

Edit: When you mention epoxy and the roof, I'm reminded of Tony Wright being asked recently by members of IRM team why he doesn't do resin kits of steam loco's.

To paraphrase, "You can't solder resin" was his response

R.

“Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.”