Glenderg

Was there an incident at 3:27 that we weren't supposed to see?

Very sorry to hear of your loss Anto, if there's anything we can do, just say so. May he Rest in Peace.

Cheers Scahalane! No PVA, it squirts out all over the place when the foil is rolled with a lino cutting roller and takes ages (24hr+) to dry. I got some cheap french spray mount glue for 8.50 eu that does the trick. Laminated in about a minute. I cut the foil in strips of about 4 feet long and press the whole lot in one length. After a few hours the glue goes off and gives it enough strength. Individual sheets would put me in a mad house. Oh and keep the shiny side hidden and wash the hands or use gloves. Otherwise fingerprints all over it when you're done! I'll do a tutorial on it over the christmas? Richie.

Setanta as a lad had a fight with a dog, the one above pictured, the meanest dog in Ulster, who guarded Culanns house. Legend is that he, after Culann the local lord saw him play hurling, he invited him to his table for a feast. The dog not knowing the young Setanta went after him and the story goes that he drove a sliotar down his throat with a hurley, and the dog choked. So devestated was Culann at the loss of his dog, that Setanta vowed to take the dogs place to defend the master. Cu Chullainn means "Hound of Culann" and he went on to be a heroic, if not gruesome warrior.

Gents,

Firstly, Seasons greetings to all and Secondly a big apology to a few members. I took up a job recently and it has destroyed any free time whatsoever. I seem to be in a loop of work, eat, sleep - rinse and repeat, 16 hour days with no overtime, so my sincere apologies to Garfield, Bosko, Dave, Wrenn, DartStation, Kirley, Anto, Tommy and Paul O'G for delays in getting stuff out. I'll bust my ass to get all outstanding bits distributed before Santy comes a knocking, or a few days later at the worst. I'll pm all concerned tomorrow with details of deliveries etc. and arrangements. But before my eyelids solder shut from lack of sleep I thought I'd post up a few snaps of Bosko's finished "Restoration Depot"

The rear end to make it a "fake" through and through shed.

The Ventilation Hoods are made from plastic door stoppers, available from your local cheapy euro store.

The gutters, flashing, parapets, and roofing are made from Schalanes technique of pressing metal to get the form, but this is ordinary tinfoil laminated 6 times and then pressed. It's remarkably sturdy once the glue goes off and given a lick of thick acrylic paint.

I chose to do the roof finish by hand, otherwise the rooflights would have been obliterated, and I'm glad I parked the airbrush. The roof finish is done using the gauche method I posted a good while back using three colours and washing and diluting it each time. This is the effect of six washes, which started as wrecked and rusty, eventually toning down to dirty and poorly maintained.

The rooflights were made by layering 8 sheets of ordinary cling film together, which produces this nice "fibreglass" look to it. Once in place, a lick of PVA over the top and it's as good as Wills plastic sheet, and a damn sight cheaper. I bunged a light in, and I reckon now is the time to grab some cheap fairy lights for this kind of lark. Need to blank out the light bleed at the wall plate, but that's not a stresser.

The refuelling lines were painstakingly done with various gauges of wire and styrene strip to make the gantry, everything else is card.

The whole thing has been sealed with three coats of matt varnish to protect it from accidental water damage so fingers crossed it will survive.

Again apologies to the members above, delays will be rectified as soon as humanly possible. Bed calls.

Richie.

Great googly moogly. I never really had much time for that class - i never remember it action. But, those photos have blown my mind, it looks like the real thing to scale. Stunning finish. Richie.

On telly this evening on BBC Four at 22:00 GMT - "two part series telling the remarkable story of a band of visionaries who rescued some of the little narrow gauge railways that once served Britain's industries"

Here's hoping there's some hardcore "ship-on-dock-on-train" action!

Richie.

C'est tres bon Pat, but ou est les splatterings du graffiti on les walls that bons franc is well known for?

Should we club together and send anto over to clandestinely 'fix' les rolling stock?

.... only if them boys are holding walking sticks....

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Great to see as many approaches to this mystic part of layout creation as possible. In fairness, your layout has everything ballast wise, from high shoulders to diesel dipped platform areas, so a tutorial might be posted when you're finished ?

2017?

Possibly a rolling tutorial? R.

Ah! A Hari-Kirshna qoute mixed up with mother-in-laws. Tough night seamus, perhaps a bit of "hari-hari" round the kitchen would soothe those ******** impulses?

Any suggestions for a model of 911 / Nir gen van?

Ooooh. Brake First Corridor - the Bachy one, fill in 4 main windows, and two sidelights, add porthole window, etched vent grilles, panel off the corridor connection, prime, sand, prime, sand, send to anto to paint and decal. Eezy peezy. Throw up some photos to let us see your progress.. Richie.

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"Well young lad, how many hundred of granpa brackens loco collection did you have to wreck before he bought you thomas the tank engine?"

Nice work rob, any more shots of the patio loop? Are you going all container-tastic on us?

http://eiretrains.com/Photo_Gallery/Railway%20Stations%20A/Attymon/slides/Attymon_20050615_0001.html

A fine replica of the real thing. Very impressive. The model looks as good as the real thing, even more impressive when it's hand painted.

so what your saying is once you don't profit from something its OK to copy it

No, that's not what I'm saying. If it's a registered trademark, such as Guinness or Coca-Cola, you cannot use it without permission. You can buy a blank t-shirt and spray the guinness logo on if you want, i doubt they'll get lawyered up and tell you to bin it. You start making Guinness tee-shirts, giving them out free or for money, and you're in trouble.

Now items such as IE logos are not protected in the same manner since they are "corporate branding" and not registered. They may send you a "cease and desist" if whatever practice you are engaged in does not conform to their corporate image or if you are "passing off" items claiming to be theirs. Like if you made mugs with their logo, they'd be entitled to come after you.

When it comes to Hornby and Bachmann etc, say using the DB Shenker Logo, they do not pay either. There are agreements - Memoranda of Understanding - between the two that limit how logos are used for the model maker, but DB Shenker inherently get free advertising from the model. So it's a horse trade, and each deal between a model maker and corporate will be different. If it were punitive and costly to get their logo used, we'd have nothing but copyright expired steam era companies to work with and no Virgin Voyagers etc.

When it comes to IE logos for decals, you do not have to ask permission. Because the creator of the work is the decal maker, by research, drawings and graphic work. He is the originator of it. That's why he has a big ass copyright sign on all his decal sheets.

Bottom line is that as long as you do all the hard graft yourself and can prove with certainty that you are the originator, you are fine. Also if you stick a guinness sign on a Fitzgeralds Pub, you don't have to get permission either, because it is part and parcel of the look - you are not advertising guinness.

I have the case-law references if you want them for both UK and Ireland. Both my brothers are solicitors, one in London specialising in Intellectual Property and the other here with a masters in copyright law. Christmas dinner is mighty craic altogether!

Does that make sense or I have just made things more confusing?

Richie.

Nope. Since it's not available to purchase there are no licensing issues I'm breaching. Second, I'm not actually using the font, I'm recreating it, and all the work is mine. Third - I'm not distributing it at all, not even for profit, and lastly I'm not gaining in any way financially from it.

If I were hawking repro signs to the likes of Bracken, passing them off as originals, then I'd be in for the high jump. After all it's for tiny card signs for model railways!

There is indeed, Richie... and there's a couple of shabby Uniload containers in the yard behind the bus garage.

Merciful hour, oh the hot flushes are back!

Alan Fitzpatrick did the font for Creative Inc., a rehash of CIE2000 that was the previous font. It has nor ever will be distributed, except to pro printers for Annual Reports etc.

http://www.creativeinc.ie/index.php/portfolio/detail/iarnrod_eireann

Is there not a sexy little CIE 40' container taking pride of place in that yard Pat? And as for Limerick, there's a massive gantry crane... greatful for small mercies as me mam says...!

You lucky lucky boy!! How the HELL did you get that font? Knowing your IT skills you probably scanned, traced and developed your own *.ttf file!

 

Very nice.

Wasn't easy, and IE ain't helping. But if I get a full alphabet font [still missing G, X,W,Y,Z etc.] I'll let you know des. You "may" have use for it!

Lads one mistake, we drive on the other side of the road here

Ha ha, I have been notified about this "oversight" on my part - i don't drive - but the twishty roads around the dingle tend not to have markings, nor room for another vehicle to pass - take note german tourists going the wrong way round the ring of kerry when the bus eireann + rear convoy has to reverse , so i'll fix the image, and possibly stick a few sheep in the background? Would happy come your way then?

Dont mind the pale one ....

"Behold the dark horse. The man who sat upon him was Headless and the Beejaysus was scared out of you" Richie.