Patrick Davey

Pane-ful work this evening, with lots of cutting and filing, cutting and filing, cutting and filing, cutting and……

Great announcement today, forward looking too!! I seem to remember a suggestion that there could be two announcements this weekend.......anyone know the story there......?

Won’t be there until Monday, will be keeping a look out

Nice announcement - definitely of interest to me

More work on decorating the walls of the station building today - the wooden glazed panel has been given a coat of CIÉ 1960s green (thanks @jhb171achill!), window sills have been added and the polychromatic brickwork has been tidied up. Next it'll be the window frames, then the walls can be assembled.

I was driving with a work colleague at 12:30pm and she was sharing in my excitement at the announcement and she refreshed my feed when the timer expired, nothing happened and now I look like even more of a total loser……

Yes but the countdown timer on the IRM website was timed to expire today at 12:30pm which seemed weird!!!

It’s bad enough from the outside, with the anticipation etc, but it must be agonising from within IRM Towers as they count down the seconds - they know what’s coming but can’t say a word until the time…… if I worked for IRM they would have to lock me away until the announcement as I wouldn’t be able to contain myself

A bit of work was done today on the window arches. I had these laser cut a while back, in thick card, and they do make the job a good bit easier. Window sills next then window frames. Not all the windows will be arched though as some will be boarded over.

Still thinking RPSI steam - I suggested before that it could be 171, with IRM supporting the restoration of the locomotive by the RPSI…. could a model perhaps be made available in different liveries…. including black……

Thanks JB! It was just achieved using lots of plasticard strips, time-consuming, but definitely worth it!!

Here we are at the close of business today, a rough idea of what the building will look like, it’s just loosely Sellotaped together with a makeshift roof. There will be a large canopy on this (platform) side and a smaller one on the other side, above the forecourt door.

Brickwork underway for Clogherhead station building. The GNR didn’t make it easy for future modellers, with their decorative brick arches, but I’m trying something new this time which might make it a bit easier…… or not……

Monday too Jim?

Exciting! I have been looking for the countdown widget for a while, but it has only just appeared I think? Unless I was blind…..

Evening all Hoping to be at Blackrock on Monday 30th, after the successful conclusion of delicate negotiations with 'senior management'. Wondering if Dublin folk would recommend travelling the whole way by car (sat-nav taking me through the Port Tunnel and if I do that I may not have any money left for Leslie's new cement van) OR would there be an option to park at a railway station north of Dublin and take the DART to Blackrock? That would be more fun of course and more appropriate too! TIA

I wasn't happy with the dimensions of the station building so I trimmed these a bit and removed two windows from the forecourt wall, which brings it in line with Dunleer. Much happier with the proportions now.

Thanks all - appreciate the reassurance! Alan - I had considered something like that but wasn't sure if the shade of the brick paper would match the painted yellow elsewhere. P

Wondering if I am alone in this.... If you are following my thread elsewhere (thank you!) you will know that I am currently working on a station building for my fictional 'Clogherhead' terminus. I am basing the structure on the recently-refurbished building at Dunleer and I have been working from a good collection of photos of this building taken on a sunny summer day last June. The quoins at Dunleer are finished in yellow brick: and I had initially decided not to do this for the model, and instead made up 'stone' quoins: Recently however I started to feel guilty about this and considered myself to be getting lazy, so I decided to attempt the 'brick' quoin route. I glued some embossed brick plasticard to thin plain plasticard and started cutting and filing etc, and after what seemed like an eternity I ended up with one side of what would need to be a 2-part quoin: As I noted that 8 of these would be needed in total, the laziness returned - I decided I simply did not have the motivation to do this seven more times, even though I was happy that the result looked pretty good. I just couldn't face the thought of all that precision filling and cutting and making sure there were the correct number of bricks etc...... Seeking reassurance that I'm not alone in this and that I'm not just turning into a lazy so-and-so........?

Wondering does anyone have one of these chaps: https://www.hattons.co.uk/67952/base_toys_ie01_leyland_comet_flatbed_c_i_e/stockdetail Would like to get one! Cheers.

Further progress this evening. The side with the glazed panel is the platform side and the panel itself will have a canopy above it. The forecourt side will have a smaller canopy above the door. I am also currently thinking how the internal layout will be arranged and also considering having part of the building derelict, in keeping with the overall theme of the layout.

Clogherhead station building taking shape. This will be a slightly shorter version of the nicely-refurbished yet vacant station building on the GN mainline at Dunleer.

Inspirational stuff as always David!

Lovely layout Ken!

Ok was I just not seeing that or has it only just gone up?