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Seriously fine work there Eoin. Well done, this project just gets iteratively better!!

Yup, details please.

Picture an industrial grade petrol filling station and you're there. The ammonia wagon central valve housing box cover was lowered and the ammonia feed hoses were were connected to the couplings inside the box.

Verily Squire, methinks you're correct, forsooth.

Dear lord Wrenn, but that is very impressive. Love the K class. Your brass merchant is frightningly good...and prolific.

Lovely job!!! Great weathering and highlighting. Looks far away rather than small.

That's it.

With pleasure.

The dimensions of the larger wire are 22mm and 5mm after the bend. The short wire connecting to the top of the brake shoe is 8.5mm. The staple in the middle is 8mm long. These dimensions are based around the wire extending the full depth into the chassis (3.2mm deep). I plan to use 1mm wide scrap brass off some of my etches to make the next set of brake wire protectors.

Lordy, I want one!!

"A week chasing trains during the school holidays. " And here's me thinking I was going to be treated to some '60's-'70s Super 8 footage! Nice shots by the way.

Well from the sound of that clip, B141 has a far more dynamic sound, deeper and more resonant and far less tinny. No comparison.

I've just built my first one. It's a lovely little kit and it really looks the part, capturing all the Bullied details very well. To do this though, getting the brake gear right means getting the wire dimensions just right, I will put up the measurements I have later. Shaping the staples without splitting the two is precise work, but the effect is well worth it

A lovely little number, well done. The brass detailing completes it.

Great shots, the stability and image quality on these is amazing.

The IAA look to have published a very practical Q&A on drones that clarifies a lot compared to the last time I looked at this. https://www.iaa.ie/media/DRONESQuestionsandAnswersFinal1.pdf If it weights between less than 20kg, and footage is not for commercial reasons, no licence needed. Otherwise, training course and 12 month licence. Not within 5 miles of an aerodrome Must be flown by line of sight, not by POV, and not higher than 120m Not over built up areas Not flown within 50m of people who are not being managed by the operator Drones less than 1.5kg have more relaxed restrictions. See IAA SI25/1000 https://www.iaa.ie/index.jsp?p=100&n=107&a=406&pp=253&nn=488&lID=283 Regarding private property /privacy, the IAA have no comment on this. What about where you fly 3' parallel to a closed line, with each landowners permission? Pretty much in the clear there, surely? The onus is very much on the authorities here and they are still 5 years behind in implementation.

As is the Barna Gap Despite the squatting attempts of some boyos, still CIE property.

Can you imagine the cost of this via helicopter? c.€1000/hour. The flexibility and the quality is top class. I'd love to see driver view replications of some of the more scenic lines (NCW-Barna, Killorglin-Caherciveen, Cork-Halfway).

They do, it's F539. Alphagraphics don't advertise on the web which is a shame, as their list of Irish building card kits is nothing short of substantive. They are lovely little kits...and the several I bought are still remaining to be built! I had proposed to do the window detailing and other fine detail of the Foynes Signal box in brass, and still hope to get around to it someday. I did up a list of them sometime ago and put it under the links section http://www.studio-scale-models.com/Alpha.html

Agreed. A great approach to kit-bashing various 4 wheelers into local variants. A knife, styrene and sand paper and away you go.

Ain't it the truth. Oh for a few hours of face to face 3d training and handholding. Starting off solo watching videos and reading through reams of documentation just does not shuffle my shells.....

16um is achievable, but 100um (0.1mm) is what's available to John Average.

In my opinion 3d printing has two main issues currently for modellers, 0.1mm resolution is just too rough for compound curves on OO gauge, and self learning an appropriate 3d package that can integrate into the printer. Nevertheless even with current resolution limits, it has huge potential for renditions that can then be fine touched. Once it hits sub 0.03mm (30 micron) we are really in business as that is approaching the limit of the eye's practical resolution.

Poor explanation. The punter should always be the priority. My prices are all in euro, but anytime "up north", I make sure to have labels with dual pricing. And a conversion sheet for every price permutation, as well as sterling and euro in the kitty. Heck, you can pay me in dollars if you want...