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  1. The "false start" did produce an all-welded saddle tank which was rejected for a new riveted one when Isabel finally got restored. Today this tank adorns "Peter" at Amberley Museum.
  2. If you send us a quick email with the order number we can check it for you. irishthump and Broithe 2 Another here in the same position so I'll drop you an email too if that's OK. UK order. Thanks, Peter
  3. There have been many reports, on RMWeb and elsewhere, that it runs fine without the wagon.
  4. Mine was received safely down here in Sussex on Jan 5th, well bubble-wrapped in a large jiffy bag.
  5. Mine was ordered within minutes of an email from Alan O'Rourke. Very easy - just use the email contact details on the flyer to advise your location and you'll get a PayPal request from Michael McMahon in your currency (£40 stg in my case). Quick, simple, and painless except for the wallet! I think all subscribers to New Irish Lines should have the same email.
  6. Paul has now been in touch with me and it looks like instructions will follow in due course. Time now to start hunting for prototype pix!
  7. Thanks JohnM - I've sent a pm so fingers crossed!
  8. A bit of an update. Digging back through New Irish Lines, Vol 5 No 5 has a brief piece - seems they were produced by a chap called Paul Greene, but an email to the address given has bounced. So any contact details would be appreciated.
  9. Just received three of these resin/etched brass/whitemetal kits but can't find anything about the manufacturer. Hopefully someone can help with a bit of background. And maybe copies of the instructions which are not present - assuming there were some? Any images of either the prototype or completed models would also be very helpful. They do actually look rather good and so don't want to cock them up when building! Thanks in advance for any help.
  10. A couple of pence dearer, but what the heck! https://www.ebay.co.uk/p/Irish-Traction-Iarnrod-Eireann-by-Colm-Ocallaghan-9781445688442/16035107663?iid=312848849584&chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=710-134428-41853-0&mkcid=2&itemid=312848849584&targetid=522577551343&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=1006478&poi=&campaignid=7412990545&mkgroupid=76068633770&rlsatarget=pla-522577551343&abcId=1139356&merchantid=113082322&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIrKrLlteD5gIVTEPTCh0iyAbwEAkYAiABEgI48fD_BwE
  11. Thanks for alerting this. Now coming as part of my Christmas gift from my wife! £9.91 post free from Wordery.
  12. The G (G611 type) is available from both Silver Fox and DC Kits. Mine came from DC as a body only kit. I think it's the same master built by Mike Edge which may have used the Worsley Works etch as a basis. Can be made to pass the 1 foot rule with time and patience, but mine has developed odd warping in some of the thinner sections requiring surgery. Lots of flash around the buffers from mould tears and air bubble cavities around the axleboxes. But it can be worked on. I did consider buying the Worsley etch just to do a new frame but couldn't be bothered as in the end as subtle weathering should knock it back a bit. Tenshodo/Hanazono spud's can work quite well with a good feedback controller such as a Gaugemaster HH, but at the expense of noise and heat. Plenty of room in the bonnet for lead to add weight, and some voids underneath for same. It could be that resin castings for the Silver Fox rtr versions have been well cleaned up before painting - perhaps someone has one and can advise?
  13. Agreed, but once you've added wheels, motor, gearbox, and buffers you're looking at around £100 on the workbench. And brass is cheaper than nickel silver. There's a lot of rivets to be pressed out, some of which are very close together, and some careful curving required on the engine casing. Seems a very odd prototype for Mike Edge to do but perhaps there will be sufficient sales amongst LMS modellers of the pioneering diesels, thus making the NCC version a simple add-on to offer. Mine's already started with the frames set out for my first foray into continuous springy beam (csb) suspension as an experiment using High Level Kits csb stuff - if I get in too much of a pickle then it'll be easy to convert to flexichas having already done the hornblocks. I did also see the part-built WT from Worsley Works at Scaleforum - seems nice although the rivets look very heavy to me. But once finished and painted they will get knocked-back. However, fear not the riveting as there is a skeleton bodyshell to which the overlays with etched rivets are attached by tack soldering from voids on the inside. Be interesting once the chassis is offered.
  14. The kit for NCC 22/LMSR 7057 is now available from Mike Edge, and I collected my pre-ordered one yesterday at Scaleforum. Price is £45 and you'll need to supply your own motor, gearbox, wheels, and buffers - the latter two items being available from Alan Gibson Workshop (nowadays run by Colin Seymour). Consists of 2 sheets of etched brass plus wire and resin casting for the NCC bonnet top casing. 2 sets of frame spacers are provided on the chassis fret to cater for 00 and EM/S4. No need to worry about 21mm gauge as apparently the frames were not altered when it was regauged.
  15. I did a Murphy 141 using Gibson P4 carriage wheels. 2mm axle is standard thankfully. No real hassle. Looks much better on 21mm! Did a scratch chassis for the SilverFox/DCKits G class as a torsion wire prototype - a bit like csb's without the frames! A Terry McDermott/SSM J15 with Sharman wheels also posed no problem - must get around to finishing it!
  16. I'd be interested in a set - can you advise how to order? I'm in England and PayPal would be the easiest way. Thanks. And will the chassis be commercially available at some point, with or without the sideframe castings?
  17. Last time I was at Dromod there was one in the bushes of the old goods yard in the 'V' formed by the main line and the 3' gauge line.
  18. Sadly doesn't want to play over here in Brexitland. Have to hope I can download it later off TG4 Player but I won't hold my breath ..
  19. Please note that this has no connection with a programme called Trax from some years back produced by Jeff Geary which I found very useful. I think it may still be available but there is an active Trax-users bit within Templot - which is free to download track planner but not of the 'plug-together-proprietary-sectional-track' type. Trax (the Jeff Geary one) is very useful and Templot too in producing 21mm gauge P4 pointwork and can be used to overlay and then replicate large-scale prototype maps.
  20. The last-mentioned is basically just a rolling shell with no engine or transmission, but is still 5ft 3in gauge. The intention for more years than I can remember was to repaint it and use it as a gate guard, but it still lies in the dirt of the car park alongside where their test track used to be located. Edit: I think they bought the three locos from the ITG to provide two locos to regauge and repower for the cement works job and so ended up with the one left, the work all being done at Merthyr. I think they were engineless when I saw them at Larne but not sure about the transmissions although I suspect the final drive dropbox may have been left in. If anyone has any further info or clarification then I'm sure we'd all find it helpful.
  21. Richard doesn't do internet or email. Simply send him a note of your requirements with an sae and he'll search his and his late fathers collections, then advise what is available. Sometimes he'll do a photocopy so you can see what's what. Prices are very reasonable - assuming they are for personal research and not reproduction. He's very helpful, and has produced some absolute gems of irish stuff for me in the past.
  22. John Click was the chap - wouldn't call him a crony, more a pa, although I don't know his actual title.
  23. I had the pleasure of making one of the first 'test' purchases through the system. The images are high-resolution digital and of a quality more than adequate for modelling and/or research purposes. Prices are very good and the service pretty swift. I also got a handy index print with mine. Highly recommended with no other connection than as a satisfied customer with now several completed orders.
  24. which I suspect is the same I've got an unbuilt raw one fromDC-Kits which I suspect is from the same master. I understand the master was prepared by Mike Edge but I do wonder if that incorporated Worsley Works etches.
  25. I've just posted off my order for the Dundalk and Kerry books to the RPSI - the only place I could find them mail order. Also, they only charge 10% post and packing which is pretty good these days.
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