Patrick Davey

1 minute ago, DJ Dangerous said:

 

At least we know what @jhb171achill does at the weekends, I suppose.

Dodgy doings at Dugort

43 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

Same thing has put me off buying the odd thong on fleabay as well as from suppliers in the UK.

Too much information there JB!  Each to their own I guess.........

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.

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.

On 1/1/2024 at 4:10 PM, BosKonay said:

In terms of delivery, 2024 is scheduled to see the following delivered to customers, in no particular order:

• ICR Sets
• Bulleid Range (Flats, opens, perhaps some more)
• NIR Mk2b packs
• IRM Mk2c Packs
• Park Royals
• Murphy Models Mk2ds
• [Probably] Murphy Models 141/181 rerun (minimal details on the timeline just yet)

Beyond that into 2025, 26, there are four Diesel Projects, Two steam, Three coach, four wagon / freight stock and some accessory projects 'actively' underway as well as some overlapping Accurascale ranges that will feature IRM elements, all of which will be revealed once they have reached an advanced point (around about when Engineering samples / prototypes (*EP's) are in hand during 2024. 

See the above @leslie10646

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…. 

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!

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.

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

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:

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

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.

Lighting experiments:

The church is now in position on the layout, bedding in will follow. Looks a lot darker here than it actually is.

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. 

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. 

3 minutes ago, Galteemore said:

Yes it’s great stuff when used well. 

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

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!

18 minutes ago, Galteemore said:

Even when the Bishop clarified ‘stations of the cross’ it didn’t help much. Off he went to Sixmilecross, Carrickmacross, Crossdoney, Crossgar…..

Brilliant!!!

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!) 

And we have candles…..

8 minutes ago, Noel said:

Superb Patrick.  Communion table, pulpit, organ, eagle lectern, baptismal font at the back and yer all set for MP2 or HC2.  Love the communion rail and seating. Really captured the atmosphere. Pebble dash was an inspired idea. Bell tower is fab. This is a unique model that brings real character to your layout.

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. 

1 hour ago, jhb171achill said:

You've thought that out WELL!

JB it’s one of the many insane stories I have prepared for this, and you provided the perfect CATalyst!

1 hour ago, Galteemore said:

Lovely Patrick! Interesting diversion though as to why so few Irish locos bore Saints names, given the spiritual temperature of our land. Quite surprising, given the religious nature of the 1937 constitution, that the 800s weren’t called after Patrick, Brigid and Columba….

Yes good question! I guess Aer Lingus made up the shortfall later though! 

5 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

All churches have a church mouse. I wonder what an 00 scale one would look like…..

Plus, Fr. Hedclogher of the parish might need a cat to catch it with…..

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.