Patrick Davey

Wow!!! Very nice!!! Fair play those guys!!

Hoping there are lots of photos and videos from the show tomorrow!! Hope you all enjoy!!!

Welcome to Belfast David - you are probably only a few miles from Brookhall Mill!! Have a fantastic show tomorrow.

There used to be exactly that, a short narrow gauge line from the lower transport gallery up to what is now the site of the rail gallery. Few photos of this exist and I'm not sure it ran for long. A few disfigured stretches of rail can still be found among the hedges if you know where to look...... Still gutted to be missing the exhibition - wishing everyone safe travels to and from Cultra and I hope the day is a huge success for all involved.

Nice work, love seeing an old model getting an upgrade!

JB I wonder are the station pics here maybe Ballyboley Junction rather then Rathkenny?

Safe trip David - still gutted I have to work on the 12th and miss the show!

Provincial Wagons NCC brown van and GNR(I) loco coal wagon complete, with just the decals to go, which is my least favourite part of it because I seem to have less patience and poorer fine motor skills for this job these days…. The instructions for the brown van encourage the builder to add the supplied brake shoes as they apparently make a big difference to the finished model so that made me determined to master them but I had to admit defeat after a lot of expletives were uttered. The eyesight and fine motor skills really aren't what they were.... Maybe I'll add the decals next year......

Delighted to hear of your progress Ken, great news. And that is one incredible layout, detail everywhere, and all very realistic!!! Your 'gaffer' must be a close relative of my 'Mr. Weaver' at Brookhall Mill!

Again am gobsmacked by your progress Alan, great work altogether!! Two questions: 1. Have you found a solution to the louvre question, and... 2. Are you planning an appropriate layout to showcase this beauty when finished? Maybe a finescale recreation of Ballynahinch terminus.......? https://mikemorant.smugmug.com/Recent-uploads-and-queries/Recent-uploads-other-material/i-2xWNWzr/A

On the workbench today, two more of Leslie McAlllister’s fine Provincial Wagons kits: an NCC ‘brown’ van and a GNR loco coal wagon. Lovely models!

I wasn’t happy with the colour of the benches so I repainted them grey and also found an ideal use for the extra bus destination blinds which I had for my GNR buses. Also picked up some handy flower tufts at the show yesterday so I quickly knocked up a planter for some of them from matchsticks, to replace the one which used to sit on top of the air raid shelter.

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!