Glenderg

Looks the bidness! 

ha!

@broithe  - The axle goes from 2mm to the shank at the top of 1.1mm in diameter, so the bearing amount is very similar to previous wagons, but it'll be benchpressed in HQ thoroughly through some seriously twisty track. Hopefully the image below illustrates it. R. 

You could take the roof off, and put a drop of your paint on the your colour match area with a small brush, blast it with a hairdryer, see how it looks. rinse and repeat until it's right. You an always remove it with a cocktail stick before it plasticizes. A squirt of yellow and white should tone it closer to the side colour. It'll never be "right" as is, I'm afraid. 

3 hours ago, Broithe said:

But rotating axels is a completely different ball game altogether

But all axles are supposed to rotate unless yer second name is Foley..?

Christ all mighty, but that is some fine work. 

Every day's a school day! 

Noel, I'd go back to Eoin's post and get some cellulose thinners, strip the thing in it's entirety, put all the parts in a small jar and cover them overnight. Noxious stuff now, that thinners. And when I mean entirety, I mean everything. Just keep the rubber bits aside. 

Just thinking, have you tried just putting water through it, full throttle? Are you getting an even mist? If you release the nut that secures the needle itself at the end of the airbrush, pull it back a touch, does it increase the flow? You may have a bad combo of nozzle, needle, and outer shield. 

Anyway, full disassembly sounds like the next logical route and clean every part and reassemble. 

That was done in the States, I believe the first one off the line got that really brown version as depicted on 086sa, but that was all. Inchicore did the rest. I must bring those samples in for you to see in the flesh over some of Uncle Arthur's Medicinal Compound some evening...  

I have 7 of the Veda airbrushes, and love them to bits. Somewhere between the badger type and cheap asian ones. Noel, if it's air pressure, are you sure the pressure nut under the nozzle itself is fully opened, and the thumbturn at the end of the airbrush removed? 

Dublin is built on a great big lump of granite. Not easy to core through. 

Cork is sandy, so too expensive to underpin. 

Limerick is the only place suited for an underground, but then you'd miss out on the most preserved, and at times beautiful, georgian city in Ireland... 

(slightly biased, I know :p) 

If anyone had to travel on the 77a, like something outta Blazing Saddles, to Tallaght before it was introduced, they'd get on bended knee for the luas. 

Looks, aesthetics, punctuality, has it all, and plenty options for northsiders to go southbound and fill the reader's letters section of the Oirish Toimes. 

No downside at all! 😆 

Just be sure not to start mixing nozzle and needle sizes, just yet. You can have an 0.5mm nozzle and an 0.2mm needle, and a slip of a finger is a blunderbuss to the model. The last time I looked I went for an 0.5 nozzle and 0.3mm needle so you can go from sensitive to scuther coat with the one airbrush, but it's cavalier behaviour, and you should keep the same needle to nozzle ratio. 

36 minutes ago, Noel said:

The painting took longer than expected because when I test sprayed my usual airbrush it was not allowing paint to flow smoothly despite a deep clean last time it was used.

Despite the best will in the world, paint will get into all manner of places, and no amount of back spraying will help. If you are planning to do a decent amount of time on the air, and haven't used it in a week or so, you'll find some paint has plasticised somewhere. It'll have flowed from it's hiding place to an exit point, usually around the nozzle, and sat there. If the trigger action works then it's not in the central gubbins, but if you disassemble the nozzle cover, nozzle guard, nozzle, and nozzle mount, give them all a quick clean 9 times out of 10, it'll have you back up and running in jig time. 

3 minutes ago, leslie10646 said:

I'll be in my Northern Ireland footie shirt!

I'd near pay the flight over to see that! Seriously, you should post up a list of the books and such, I'm sure there are a few that would be welcome in my wee shelf. R. 

Were turntables not "IKEA" kits of their time - 60'. 70' and so on? 

OoooOOooooOoOooohhh  

Is that not an Attock MGWR profile on the end? The roof is definitely a re-issue, but a grim, yet brilliant photo

Thought Scotland deserved higher in the table, and Conor O'Shea's Italy, quite disappointed on that front, but Scots'll be a force to be reckoned with next year. No love lost for Gatland either. Triple Crown is all that counts now. 

54 minutes ago, Glenderg said:

There's even a shot of the twin straw lined crimson/maroon coaches too!

Is there an echo in here?  

Just stumbled on this - 1947 - Colour film. http://ifiplayer.ie/monsignor-reid-collection-castlerea-train-station-1937/

There's even a shot of the twin straw lined crimson/maroon coaches too! Enjoy JB! R. 

6 hours ago, Eiretrains said:

I was wondering with the model version proposed, will one be able to remove the yellow tanks from the bogey flat so one could recreate the sprayer with shorter 4-wheel flat wagons?

I don't see why not Ciaran. They're modelled to the 1TEU ISO standards so all lugs are in the right place, even spares will be there, so they should be mounted prototypically to the flat wagon. R.

31 minutes ago, David Holman said:

Part of me thinks that if it was that simple, why haven't we all been doing it for years?

 Then again, maybe you have hit on something really interesting.

Because metal studwork really only came into it's own in the last few years, mostly for commercial fit outs for ceilings and partitions. Less mess and dust, lightweight, easy to put together. R

Since you're clearly having your hot cocoa, I may even do a few tweaks on it, make sure it has that broadstone look? I do like a kettle, but she'll never, sadly, be a Sambo  

(That's of course if I get it - @Georgeconna)

JB, if it helps, I'll rectify the model, repaint in the correct shade, the weather it to within an inch of it's life. Deep breaths brother... 

Jaysus, can't be having that. If it's still available, I'll take it off yer hands. 

1 hour ago, jhb171achill said:

Do these come in boxes with "Parental Guidance Advisory" on them?

These are only suitable for anyone over 14, as clearly stated on the box. What state of undress you find yourself in during the unboxing process, we, thankfully, have no control over.