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Aye, it was. http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/showthread.php/2266-Goods-on-the-youghal-line

Thank you sir

Given the time of year Joe, I'd imagine he might be doing family bizz. He's been spot on with responses to orders etc. during the year to me, so put it down to a glitch in the matrix!

Noel, From what I've heard on a very reliable bush telegraph, these body modifications will be catered for.

Get onto baseboard Dave here - he supplies Peco track at the best market price.

Can I suggest a tempering of expectations here? - The joints on the boiler appear to be too few - The dome looks slightly too large - the rivet detail underneath is missing - Pipework on the sides is absent - some roof detail is missing on the cab - complete absence of rivet detailing on the tender. - valve doohickey in front of cab centre and associated pipework absent. I'd want a bit more detail before I shelled out €400 on a loco. I assume this a "first run" cad and more is to come? Mr. Humbug

I'd echo what David Holman has said in its entirety, in particular the concept of fitting the diagonal. If you infill one of the corners you'll have a super slow radius, ala the real thing, and effectively the station can take up a space of 8 x 6 in one fell swoop. It's actually an inspired idea, and I wouldn't bother me browner filling in the rear roundy roundy bit until you have the time and energy to finish it. Your main priority should be the station it seems. I'll try and sketch something out as soon as.

That is the way I make them - blank out four large windows either side to a Standard Open 8 windowed coach (rather than the 3 + smally BR restaurant version) where the catering end is and then once painted up nice, add the cosmetic windows on top of the blanked out space. As far as I know the only other way to make up a restaurant is using a brass overlay from MIR (?). I tried adding a fourth window to the BR restaurant coach years ago, and there's no real way to make it work convincingly, and you have to cut and shut the slim windows to get them in the right place. A thankless task.

1987 until their recent withdrawal. There are only the standard MKIII Restaurant (7401-7413), and that of the MKIIIa Cu Na Mara set, 6401 - Both are completely different vehicles with the 7401-7413 being the standard unit, generally speaking. The window layout and numbers of same on the restaurant coaches is different from the BR ones, as is the roof detail. If you can get a hold of a standard open roof, and add the roof vents, it's a good start. I posted a similar response to DiveC some time ago, but I can't locate it at the minute. What level of accuracy are you going for incidentally?

Lovely work Kirley, as always. Doesn't he just! They're like training manuals

Ha ha, Dive. I've never understood the plot line, so I'm hoping this movie tidies things up. But seriously dude, no-one comes to a modelling forum for spoilers....

If memory serves, the whitemetal bogie sideframes on the MIR 121 were extended to suit the 1500 chassis and are much bigger than prototype.

Horse, you'll have to strike a line across the front using something curved and file the window openings. It's on my workbench somewhere but I haven't a clue off hand. But trust me - each window in their local axis is a curved rectangular shape. On a world axis they'd be "odd". Engineers would not have gone to the trouble of designing complex multiangled shapes without 3D software in the 60's. Did BR do it with the windows on their sulzers? Rounded rectangles...

Sorry Horse, I got the gist of your question wrong. Yes, they are rectangular windows with curved corners, rather than rhomboid. In the first few kits I built I used CD covers to make the glazing panels by cutting strips, then small rectangles, then filing the edges, and push fitted them into the cabs so they'd finish flush with the opes. Any gaps around the edges were easily filled in with a bit of filler.

the only one that is flat is the central one, and it's angled backward. the sidelights follow the curve of the upper part of the cab above the crease. This photo illustrates it nicely.

Yerra I think I was anticipating what all the lads would want. Just more photos really. It's savage work. Or we could all reconvene here a years time hence...? Annual IRM tradition of sorts

Horse, get some sleep man. Santy will be here soon and he might get you a Class 55 chassis, save you all the stress

bloody hell sean, that was worth waiting for! I thought the second photo was a real one for comparison, and I haven't hit the whiskey yet! Superb stuff. In fact, worth rambling through the thread from the beginning. any chance of some "overall" shots to get an idea of the scale of your works? Richie.

Walking to the fridge is as far as I'll manage! Too much real work to do, under a bit of pressure with a few projects so no rest for me :-P

I'll happily sort drawings JB. I have most of them redrawn and can help out with slides and so on. R.

I've been mulling this over for a bit. If I had an exhibition layout, let's say 16' long 2' wide, a perfect replica of say Askeaton, where would I start with the operational side of things? I'd have scale speed for arrivals. But I'm hardly going to have the train stopped for 5 minutes waiting for yer man with the flag? I know sod all about shunting rules, and I know how to make semaphore signals, but haven't a baldy about placement or operation.I'd sooner eat an operating manual than read it. So David, what do you, Andy,Ed, or the many exhibitors think is the happy medium? Is there one? Keep the audience or the operator happy?

To try and equate Irish Railway Models with the number of fictitious layouts which we've heard of for 18 months now, combined with the arrogant distain you have for exhibitors is disgusting. You also insult three other members here, and the entire community who support it. And we all have real lives too, don't try and pull that one.

I know you love going off-topic man, but this is extreme.

Top drawer stuff Flange