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  1. Patrick Davey
    Thankfully I was still able to order 4 lighting packs from them for the 4-pack CIE genesis I have on order although I felt really sad doing so. Hard to take it in that such an established and significant name in the industry will shortly be no more.
  2. Patrick Davey
    Always sad to hear this kind of news - they have been very good to their customers and I will look forward to receiving my Genesis coaches.
  3. Patrick Davey
    See the above @leslie10646
  4. Patrick Davey
    Two steam projects - interesting! My money is still on one (or both?) being preserved RPSI, maybe one blue and one green/black/grey although I’m still not convinced that IRM would overshadow OO Works with an even better J15. And I suppose it doesn’t even have to be a preserved locomotive, since the OO Works U and UG sold out….
  5. Patrick Davey
    Even though the railway is not as busy as in former years, the beach is still popular with families, so the emergency services need to put in an appearance from time to time. Pictured at Clogherhead beach today is an ambulance from Dundalk. With special thanks to Kevin Enright @Louth of this parish who kindly donated the ambulance to me when he discovered he had two - this is the impressive Oxford Diecast Dundalk Fire Service ambulance. Thanks, Kevin!
  6. Patrick Davey
    A bit more detailing today: the beach now has a nameboard, along with two typically garish beach huts and a food kiosk, all made from mount board, they will be weathered of course, to reflect the dilapidation theme of the project. Progress was also made on the promenade and the wave defences, more on this tomorrow I hope.
  7. Patrick Davey
    No idea how I managed to upload an empty post….. hopefully admin can delete this one and the empty one because I can’t see how to delete posts
  8. Patrick Davey
    So here’s his week’s progress: Concrete wave barriers for the beach and coping stones on the sea wall: Access boardwalk for the signalman (this will need weathered as the cabin is disused) along with bedding in of the cabin and a chain link fence around it:
  9. Patrick Davey
    Belated happy New Year greetings to all! My other half has come down with Covid, so I have been banished to my mother’s house in case I catch it, which apparently would be a disaster of seismic proportions…… In the spirit of clouds and silver linings however, this is where my railway activities take place and there has consequently been some decent progress on the new layout, details of which I shall reveal presently. My OO Works U class will probably never run on the new layout, unless I hook up a DC controller, but I couldn’t resist a few posed photos in the meantime
  10. Patrick Davey
    Getting back to working on the sea wall, between the station and the lower level beach…. Photos show the production line for making the large coping stones: 1. First I made plasticard formers 2. DAS clay is pushed into the formers 3. Once the clay has dried, it is removed and the blocks are cut into 1 cm lengths and smoothed off, any small fragments which break off, hopefully add to the realism 4. Using PVA glue, the blocks are fixed to the top of the wall sections 5. Once all the smaller wall sections are completed, they will be fixed into position at the bottom of the existing taller sections.
  11. Patrick Davey
    Lighting experiments:
  12. Patrick Davey
    The church is now in position on the layout, bedding in will follow. Looks a lot darker here than it actually is.
  13. Patrick Davey
    More or less finished the church now, a few tiny details still to go eg. gutters on the tower and sacristy, as well as doorsteps.
  14. Patrick Davey
    Back to the station today and it has now been bedded in, along with the station nameboard. More vegetation shall be applied once the glue dries.
  15. Patrick Davey
    I experimented on spare windows and didn’t get it right, presumably because I put it on too thick, but I used an extra fine nozzle for the above, and I’m very happy with the result
  16. Patrick Davey
    Officially my new favourite tool for glazing windows. Yes it’s more work but the results are better, they really do look like individual panes methinks!
  17. Patrick Davey
    Brilliant!!!
  18. Patrick Davey
    Apparently there was a bit of an incident at Clogherhead church today. The visiting curate Fr. Hemingway went missing but eventually turned up at Bundoran after attempting to visit every location on the GNR. It seems he misunderstood the bishop’s instruction to do ‘all the stations.’ (Apologies if only those of a certain persuasion understand that!)
  19. Patrick Davey
    And we have candles…..
  20. Patrick Davey
    Thanks Noel Altar now added - in the style of the Pre-Vatican II churches! Also a statue above the front door and a date stone.
  21. Patrick Davey
    JB it’s one of the many insane stories I have prepared for this, and you provided the perfect CATalyst!
  22. Patrick Davey
    Yes good question! I guess Aer Lingus made up the shortfall later though!
  23. Patrick Davey
    The lady who arranges the flowers in the church is called Lily Rose Tansey, and she has a cat called Peregrine (just to compound things, her husband is a top link GNR driver) and with a name like that there are definitely no mice to be found. She chose that name because it was always going to be a church cat, hence named after a bird of pray.
  24. Patrick Davey
    Bell tower detail: louvres and roof.
  25. Patrick Davey
    The parishioners now have somewhere to sit and kneel, and the priest has a roof and window on his sacristy. Just the altar to go and the interior will be complete.
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