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Would any kindly soul be able to scan in daycent drawings and send them on? I'd really appreciate any outline drawings that i can take measurements off, and work up something. You'd be repaid in bits of buildings or rolling stock that i have lying idle. Arrivals@glenderg.com or pm me here. Richie.

One thing i notice that can be picked out from the models, even at small size, on the Sulzer, is that the tablet catcher recess at the cab doors is not deep enough, and does not have the chamfered/angled edge. An odd mistake to make given the plethora of photos knocking about. Face does look flat, but some photos of the real thing suggest a flatness at certain angles, and more angular at others. Wait and see i spose...

File properties of the image....?!?

That's pretty cool, naming cats "gasket" "smokebox" and "vandal". There's a bunch of strays here that when I open the back window spraying, it's like the shutter came up at a soup kitchen - twist(please sir, can I have some more) , screech (meow is broken), chiseller (loves knocking over the chisel I use to keep the window open), and fat dave (There's always a lecherous overweight fellow pestering young hotties in nightclubs....)

Superb stuff Sean, am sure it took a while to do, but worth it no doubt. R

Des, One method I've seen is where you roll the DAS clay out on crumpled up clingfilm or tin foil, and you use a piece of dental floss or fine fishing line to make the horizontal coursing. You could strap several to two pieces of timber to make an "egg slicer" effect if you wanted to speed things up? The vertical joints can be sorted with a blade of some sort, maybe cut down to match the course height? This the sort of look you're going for? R. (New Road, Kilkenny) (Barrack St., Kilkenny)

Gold lettering, deep drop shadow, hint of white round the edges. GSWR logos a plenty. Damn, that's my dreams taking over again.

Made my day

Gave my architectural funny bone a chuckle that, engineers being so modest and all! There was a thread not so long ago about the autoballasters and converting the genny's to standards. At the same time, I dropped a Network Rail one twice, and in the process found out how to take certain bits apart, so here is how to do it kinda properly, if anyone fancies a bash at it. This is the tail end that needs reworking. Wiggling the top in a clockwise/counter clockwise motion detaches the roof Pull out the two handrails as shown and rock the roof support back and forward. Pull the generator back towards the buffers and undergubbins exposed. 33 x 29.75mm piece of 0.25mm styrene with another 16.5 x 29.75mm piece on top. This was put in the oven on a former to get the curve, more on that process later on. After that it's a case of using the holes that were made already to form some wire to the right shape. The canopy is made from 39 x 12mm styrene scored in the middle. That's as much as I'm going to do to it, and the genny part has already been "re-purposed" for per-way duties ! Richie.

Fom what i recall, it's a bugger of a chassis to get of the shelf. 9' wheelbase and 16'6" over headstocks. Lovely wagon though...

Ha ha horse, now they say everything bar "terms and conditions apply" as gaelige. Some day i'm expecting to see a bus that says "An bhfuil cead agam dul go dti an leithreas". Que the junkie trying to figure out where that bus is going to...

Are these the ones that ended up miserably with their roof.s cut off and filled with turf? Have been chatting to weshty about them, would love to, but the central sliding bogie is only something i've seen horse do. Tricky as a model.

Which one? The alphagraphix one? 53M? Happy to collaborate on drawings, have it done. Filthy talk of steamers. This thread is all about the glorious girls at the back, not the kettles up front!

I just had a junior moment. Behaviour that would not be expected of a senior! Don't get me goin on horse boxes. Mr coackham was the best advocate of the rail based horse box. And jesus i love them too!

Already thought of doing at least one of them, can't remember where I saw a drawing of it though. 1874 Standard Goods Brake Van is next up. There's a photo of the back of her in "A Time of Civil War" helping with a derailment... The chassis I used was a wrenn diecast with 10' wheelbase and 17' over headstocks. I *think* the original was 10'6" WB and 17'6" OH, but I can't locate where I got that from just now. So you reckon a brown colour would be more accurate then? (It's from your Cramer articles and scans that this obsession started - cheers!) Richie.

Excuse the quality, but i got as far as this a few months ago, and was unwilling to push on until i got a bit of clarity, and working on a timber panelled 20 tonner, kind of got me back in the zone. Thanks for the help JHB, will add a touch of white around the text, and see how it goes. Richie.

Ha ha, batch fitting 32 brake shoes on prestwin chassis' would suggest otherwise. Keep on trucking george - what liveries you going for? Grey? Bauxite? Richie

Cheers lads - grey it is then! She was broken up in 1954, but appears to have a closer build logic to the later CIE 20 ton panelled brake van, than either 10 or 12 ton GSWR brakes, but that's for another day. Don't stress JHB, this can be our dirty little secret, just amongst ourselves! Richie.

Gents, Need your assistance with my brake van fetish, and I apologize to Ernie Shepherd for using his photo, but I can't proceed without it. I've built a model of this fellow based on drawings and info in the MGWR book. Question is, does anyone know what colour it might have been? I'm inclined to go for a lightish dirty grey all over with darker grey from the strakes (cheers GC!) internal partitions and roof. Any thoughts? Richie.

Found the concept art for the new logo....

Is there supposed to be an image or summit here, rev? Edit no need just googled it. Jesus ****ing christ on a ****ing bike, what the **** are those morons in CIE spending OUR money on. Nob-end Noel more like.

Just a quick one as I've seen a few lads have a go at the ARC Hornby/Lima wagons to convert to Tara's, and while they are a mile off the prototype, their bulk and size makes them perfect, and cheap to make a rake. I did this a quite a few years ago, and it's been in the "naughty box" and has seen better days, but here's 5 quick steps to make it look closer to a tara. Does not include brake gear etc.... This is what you get outta the box and this is what can be done - 01: Blue - using a file or saw chop out about 8mm high x 4mm deep notch from the back. Body side is thick enough that it wont show through. 02: Purple - Cut out a rectangle of thin plastic, trim off the corners equally and glue it to the lowest beam as shown. 03: Yellow - Add two more strips of plastic, the same size as the two that are there. Your buffers will sit in between these ribs, so use a loco to as a template to get it to match. 04: Red - Add an overlay of plastic over the ribs and remove the two small rectangles. 05: Green - Add a 2mm piece of roof, letting it overhang slightly. Cut out the same sheet in thin plastic, but glue it in from the edges. This forms a slight bend in the roof. Add the roof grip anchors if you feel like it. Paint and decals to finish then. This was one of the first ever scratchbuilds I did years ago, so have a go. Another even better alternative is Shinkansens version http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/showthread.php/901-Shinkansen-s-Projects?p=22260&viewfull=1#post22260 Richie.

No, but they can be easily fashioned from the ink tube of a bic biro, with a cocktail stick inserted into it. Drill a hole in the buffer beam, insert the cocktail stick and glue, slot the ink tube over the cocktail stick leaving 2mm of cocktail stick sticking out. The bufferplate can be fashioned with a bit of styrene with the edges rounded off. I have one of those wagons here I had a go at a few years ago, if posting it up would help? R