Patrick Davey

Brilliant!!!

Some photos from Day 3 of the show. Lovely to be back at a show after three years and to meet so many icons of the railway modelling world and of this forum, such as the legend that is Mr. Paddy Murphy, along with @jhb171achill and @leslie10646 !! Some nice dioramas too including a comparison between the Clontarf of 1014 and the Clontarf of 2014, very clever! Two videos from the show: Rathmichael, by Wexford Model Railway Club: IMG_0769 2.MOV And Kildare, by South Dublin Model Railway Society: IMG_0767.MOV

I guess you just have to solder on Alan.....

It is looking superb Alan and your build speed is most admirable!!!

They have obviously done a few courses…….

The droop has been de-droop-ified.

The new wall now has a gate…… not glued in place yet hence the droop.....

Simply superb!

Great announcements - not my era but impressive as always!! Eagerly awaiting the new tooling announcements........ hope I won't be BLUE and feel MAROONed........

This part of the layout had been niggling at me, being one of the few areas remaining unfinished. I needed a means of marking the transition between the platform and the wooded area beyond: I had tried a few things in the past which didn't work so I decided to build a brick wall, using thick card covered in embossed brick plasticard: I had to excavate a bit to give it a solid foundation but it seems to work ok. There will be a short fence section between the back of the platform shelter and the new wall. Starting to blend the wall in with chinchilla dust, which was kindly provided for the platform a while back by Paul Chapman. Mr. Weaver is casting his eye over the work. This side has been built up using offcuts of the thick card covered with a layer of black scatter, then the whole lot was soaked in dilute PVA. Once dry, the black scatter will be covered with green scatter then foliage. I only used the black scatter here as I have lots of it and haven't found much use for it other than as a coal pile elsewhere on the layout.

More gems thanks Ernie, Aldergrove stands out for me!

Tiny Signs for the tiny folk to read! Apologies for the tiny photos too.....

Haven't heard this kind of build up before, getting interesting now!

Sending you lots of good wishes Ken and my compliments also on a fantastic model.

Same..... the IRM team haven't yet, as far as I know, told us when the pre-show announcement will be made, hopefully imminently as it would be a welcome diversion from the Downing Street shenanigans....... Am guessing the pre-show one will be more of an accessory (maybe the footbridge?) rather than a powered item though, because if they are indeed releasing what I hope they will, I imagine that it would be a major announcement suited to a major show..... all speculation though and I bet IRM Towers is enjoying this!! Whatever comes it will all be fab and my continued thanks to IRM for all they do.

This is amazing - I am always in awe of anyone who can do something that I could never do and this is very firmly so!!!!

More tiny folk doing things at Brookhall Mill.

Congrats Tony - looking forward to this!!!

New members of the insanity inventory: Billy Barrel - his job is to roll out the barrel.....he even wrote a song about it.... The formidable Mr. Foreman, and his assistant, Mr. Threeman (slightly lower pay grade). Mr. Weaver dislikes Mr. Foreman (Mr. Threeman even less so) because he's always insisting that everything be done by the book.

Congrats - a milestone has been achieved!!! Looks like a smooth runner too!!

Just fantastic Noel, love this layout! Will you be planning on exhibiting Gort Noel?

I fear we have some confused gravediggers here..... (lost the plot......)

Mr. Weaver is always concerned for the health and well-being of his staff so he always encourages them to take time to explore the lanes around Brookhall Mill

@Warbonnet can we expect to see samples of the new products at Raheny? Maybe undecorated ones? And.... when will the pre-Raheny announcement be made?

Some goodies arrived today from the fine folks at York Modelmaking: The pallets were easy enough to knock together and being made from plywood, they already look correct! The platform benches were NOT easy to assemble, very fiddly and it was a classic case of one's fingers being stickier than superglue. I painted the 'wooden' parts red first and left the 'iron' parts white. Maybe the red is too loud? More goodies on the way too, to help further develop the insanity side of things....more characters to create crackpot scenarios with......