Dunluce Castle

Amazing work

Thanks everyone, I appreciate your comments, the lining transfers are fox transfers and they are rather tricky to apply and take a while to get the transfer where you want, although when you get past all that they do look the part and when varnished, blend in nicely.

Hello Gentlemen, Mock exams are over and I have about a month of freedom now until the next exams are up, but for the past few slow months I've been working on this, it's a 2P conversion into a NCC U2 class, one of the early ones with extended cab roof, and she is in UTA experimental olive Green livery, I've used railmatch paints and lining transfers for the lining, even tho I did buy a lining pen it wasn't very successful so I'll need more practise with it, but until then it's transfers for now. Only 1 U2 class was painted in this livery and it was very short lived, the other 2 locos that received experimental green were a mogul and jeep, all 3 locos done in differnt shades of green. The loco is now ready to go back to it's original owner. Sorry for the poor quality of pics, dunno what's up with the camera. Many thanks Nelson

Very sorry to hear this JB.

Maybe "rare" would have been a better word than "collectors" Do you know how many different wagons were made by MIR Wrenneire? It's a pity they aren't still going.

As do slaters, I'd love to try an MIR kit but wouldn't risk building one of these "collectors" items

Riversuir226 is correct, the pics that I've posted are from Belfast, York road and the harbour lines

Hello gentlemen, Some of you may already know what I'm on about but for those who don't, this is a great website that has lots of overhead images taken before and after the war of places all across Britain and some in Ireland, it is heaven if you find a track plan of a certain station you want to model, or what a certain goods yard looks like, all images are free to view, although if you make an account you can help others by identifying a certain picture and commenting on what it shows. These are just 3 out of thousands that I've used as an example. I've seen images of when the camera low down right beside a train, so there really is a huge range of images, something for everyone. Click this link to go to the "Britain From Above" website and get searching, http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/ I hope this comes in handy for some people as I know it's helped me lots, Enjoy Nelson Bear in mind that its not only railway pictures so It can take some time to find something that is railway related, but using the search bar function is great and should speed the process up.

Thank you gentlemen I appreciate your comments

Hello everyone. Hello everyone. Well it's been weeks since I've done any modelling, Christmas came and went, new year came and went and now I'm back to school so yeah, oh and did I mention exams are coming up lol, so I've been revising and just overall very busy so literally no modelling has been done except this wee thing that took ages to do, but it's now done and I thought Id show you guys. I won't be doing anything until the exams are done and I have a few railway projects planned for then, so until then. Happy new year Nelson

The pictures aren't showing up for me

I use the exact same stuff as yourself (halfords grey plastic primer), and I spray it on in maybe 4 to 6 very light coats at a fair distance away, but not too far away, the first 2 coats will make the model look absolutely rubbish but don't worry let it to dry and add another light coat on top, and repeat. then when your happy with the colour/coverage, you can stop hope this helps, another tip is to build most of the model up and then spray the colour you want this gives you am even smooth coating all round without unsightly different coloured joins. Looking at your vans again they are very nicely done and I don't see a problem with them, you should be proud of your models there. Just another thing I forgot to mention is, when spraying make sure that your spraying directly onto the face/side of the model in smooth sweeping motion, this also ensures an even coverage and makes sure that the sides of the supports aren't missing any paint.

Lovely job on those brake vans they really look the part.

Lovely start there, can't wait to see them complete, are they working doors?

Irish J15 - http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/content.php/302-CIE-J15-0-6-0-Drawings Sounds like an interesting book

Excellent, liked!

Seen and already being discussed on the eBay thread.

Merry Christmas everyone and have a peaceful new year.

Thank you David, i appreciate your comment and advice, I'm with you with regards to tension lock couplings which is why I'm now starting to use 3 links but I'm still looking around for different alternatives, until then the search continues

Lovely work on tose carriages, absolutely stunning work, nice one.

Pssst gentlemen, it's called a Y class (sorry) try looking in the Bachmann website for jinty instructions, that should tell you how you can take the body off

Thanks Garfield and yes burnthebox

Hello everyone, Quite amazed at how long I've been going for without modelling mainly because of school and exams but hey that's life this 1/72nd scale elefant tank is my first model I've done since the last update and I wanted to try out a couple of things on it, such as the winter camo, which was my first attempt at doing and I think it's turned out fairly well, what do you guys think? Now that this is done I have another U2 to do and more spoil wagons so that should keep me busy over Christmas. That's all for now folks, Thanks Nelson

Great work John, any pics on said Meat Van?

Always love this exhibiton, can't wait next year