Glenderg

http://museum.limerick.ie/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/4570

Hearty congratulations Stephen! I assume if it's a girl, she'll be christened Amiens? (I'll get me coat)

Many thanks eigyro for that easily understood yet detailed explanation. Feel free to post as many pics, BR or IE, they really put the models on a different level. Richie.

wonderful work, it looks life like -a few tracksuit clad langers on the way to the district court, and you've captured my recollections of those carraiges . is there any chance you might have an explanation for your method that translates to english. i'm a thick when it comes to electronics, but i'd be happy to give it a go if i knew which products to buy etc. i assume maplin would have all these "flux capacitors" thingemeebobs you speak of? richie

I'd love to know what you did in a past life Sca to justify all that rivetting! Seriously though, its Wonderful stuff and a fine example of patience and effort paying off. i used foil for my rivet plates on the viaduct,(several thousand) but this is another levl altogether.

I think it looks great, though a bit of colour variation wouldn't hurt. Bits of discarded rails, cables, oily patches where wagons would be stood for a long time and you'll be getting a visit from Chris Nevard with his camera Richie.

I'll take the last one if it's still about Snapper.

Mike, did you say the front buffer plate and curved supports were made of styrene? Wonderful stuff indeed. Great to see more high quality kettles on IRM.

Were they not B5's? (I don't know what the difference between B4 and B5 is either..RedRich??)

Ha ha, that's mad and brilliant. Brightened up my day! Richie

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I've spent a lot of time looking at their proposals and frankly I cannot see how it adds up, but fair dues Mike for having a go. First off, the high resolution scanning. I've priced this for conservation survey work in the 9-5 world, and you'd normally get a 500mm resolution point cloud for about 5000 euro, no good for this type of work. I know that 5mm resolution can cost upward of 40,000, and that most of the cost is spent on converting the point cloud to usable data for a 3d model, so I'm not really sure how their sums add up. Second, you'd have to pay their flights, bed and board for the duration of the stay. And flexiscale don't scan the model, it's their partner company who make their living scanning oil rigs - where the sums make sense. You could cut out all that nonsense if you did all the measuring and CAD work yourselves. While I applaud their efforts, they are producing a Shapeways/makerbot/i-materialise model and selling it to you, the only addition being that they've measured it. And cost - £28 for a little slate wagon? We've had the row/chat about the quality of printed stuff, and I cannot see how you can get all that fine rivetted detail of 461, and a lovely glossy painted finish on the boiler with the fine printed grooves and be happy with it. It's asking for a more traditional resin/whitemetal/turned brass approach I would have thought. However, if someone wants to give me bed and board, and a week alone in the summer with 461 I'll do 'ye a super detailed 3d model for free, and all the drawings of to paper yer house. All you need then is somebody to make the mould from it or print it from one of the 3d printer firms. Richie.

Ah! sorry, blonde moment. Will have a look for now. R. Edit - I've no photos of it "naked"

These are a few I took in Maynooth some years ago, I hope they are of the right wagon. Richie.

These are ordinary 62'9" bogie flats with cradles added which fit into the lugs on the side?

ha ha ha ha, that's too funny... Well done Bosko, top marks! P.s - loving the long shots - that will be some layout when it's done.

Nice one Seamus, thanks a lot!! R.

Whilst hunting for D301 class photos, i found a treasure trove of photographs from turn of the century steam to the relatively recent - early railcars, hunslets, narrow gauge, sulzers, metro vic, guinness tramway locos, and more steam than could imagine:drool:. Many thanks to Paul Johnson for taking the time to scan & upload them. Richie.

Darth Vader on rails. it looks *****.

Top drawer stuff as always Tom! Love the industrial approach richie

That is a superb piece of modelling & engineering, fair play. A lot of hours no doubt, but the result is well worth it. When you get the AJ coupling sorted, can you do a "how-to" guide, or are you buying the jigs to make them? Richie.

Working class ideology possibly - more likely a Subaru Impreza....

(I remember that on the 123 Marino route - used to be called the "Purple Rinse" bus with all the 'aul wans goin over to James' Hospital to "get the tubes out" etc. Truly horrifying experience.)

If someone stuck an IE decal on a banana seamus, you'd have it off 'em. Mad 'bout the yellow the boy is..!