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Great tune. I literally was in short trousers at the time (with an Action man T-shirt). Those of you over 40 will remember.

Check out his profile on Wikipedia, astonishingly talented and with a strange and varied background.

Better do as he says, Des... wouldn't want you to get clobbered on the head with that weathering stick of his!

With a comment like that, why does Ian Dury come to mind

That would be me

 

Any and all contributors welcome - I don't have enough hours in teh day to keep it as up to date as I'd like!

Sorted. I will clarify where stuff should be added or ammended and PM you. What's the best way to send you details

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Love that enthusiasm Anto! All in good time little cricket.

The compound curves on the front have now been formed and the inner lining is being added. I should have photos towards the end of the week one further detailing has been completed.

I've a different but related question to ask. Just looking at Kirley's photos of the glorious collection of locos preserved in York.

Of the irish steam loco types that no longer exist, which two would you have given your left ball to preserve?

No prizes for guessing my two. The B4 and D17. I wonder how viable it would be to make steel plate and fibre glass replicas of them?

Wow. What a place and what a collection. A trip to York is definitely on the cards.

Heh! Dowtcha boy!

Nice one again my son, very tasty!

Ah Trains, Boats and Planes, that brings back some memories, bought quite a bit of stuff in there myself. Called in there the last day it closed down and the builders who were gutting the place gave me a big box of old trains, needless to say I was a happy chappy. Sold it all later to my brother for the price of a ticket to see Queen at Slane '86.......

Queen '86? The most overhyped POS gig I have ever attended. Pretty much everyone went on the strength of their Liveaid performance the previous year. An 8 hour odyssey of a journey to get there (and back home at 6:30 am the following morning), p**ing rain, rioting so bad they actually had to stop playing to tell everyone to calm the f*%$ down (literally). And to top it all the "fabulous light show" was utterly wasted as they were on at 7:00pm.

Having said that, Chris Rea was awesome. Steel River stole the show.

All was not lost though. The freebie "Lark by the Lee" a fortnight later was in contrast one of the best gigs I've ever seen, 20,000 people turned up and Paul Brady and his band made it an evening to remember forever.

Very tasty, the only way you'd know they're a model is the large size of the windscreen wiper!

Mint for €75? Nice appreciation seeing as the price tag shows £4.50.

Trains, Boats and Planes in Cork for me. 1982. Spent my hard saved cash on two Lima irish green coaches, signals and powered lima points. Got them for my Irish Freight Set bought in Dunnes the previous Christmas. Soon to be followed by a Class 25 freight set (with working loco lights!! And a Bernard Russell record) bought in the Monument House in Mallow the following Christmas.

Hmm, I'll put some photos up on SSM to show where everything goes.

Has anyone heard of this delightful emporium that was open up to the late 80's(ish)?

Would love to know more about it. Apparantly the owner is big into larger scale garden model layouts?

Mmmmm. A freight, IE, IR and Supertrain version to be got as well as a weathered IE...hopefully.

Right. Enough of this chat about donor chassis et al. Here's what you are going to be putting ON your donor chassis. Need to start forming the compound curves and getting the ancilliary bits, but we're getting there.

"Everything is supplied bar paint and labour." Classic

And "pure true"!

Website uploaded, if anyone has any extra info on the brakevans, let me know and I'll add it on.

Most excellent. A session with Dreamweaver on the cards so this evening to get those photos up...

Veeeery nice. I was thinking,the lights on that new Paddy Murphy Freight 071 looks great and then realised.."it's an MIR kit build....awesome!"

Lovely, lovely job, may I add it to the proposed Brake Van page on SSM? Full accreditation all round....of course!

I particularly like the Works Stencils finish.

071. Nothing but nothing has such a ballsey look and sound. Hard to call it a she after that really....

B4 bandon tank. A beautifully dimensioned loco and iconic representative of the CBSCR.

D17 uniquely irish and a great runner

201 Modern Power and elegance.

800 Maebh aesthetically elegant and strength to match

Honourable mention to the 171 Sliabh Gullion, simple elegance and a beautiful livery and the re-engined A Class. It did exactly what it said on the tin, even if the design was a little bland.

Mind blowing, superb example of automation at its best.

They could use it on this line....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUCU2...eature=related

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now there is a baby that jogs the memory!

 

Have to agree, but to misquote Fr. Ted, "aren't they ALL lovely buses...."