Dunluce Castle

I grew up with 80s, 450s and the current 3000 and 4000 class, but have never witnessed a proper goods train apart from 111s with ballast trains, yet despite all that, I model the steam era somewhat 60 years before my time

They look wonderful Kirley, absolutely brilliant nice one!

And if you want to see it yourself go to the DCDR they are now the proud owners of the NIR DBSO.

Hello everyone,

Got 3 more spoil wagons weathered and I'm really quite proud of them, so that's 4 now done and onto the next 4, obviously if there's anything seriously wrong with them or anything that can be improved be sure to let me know, I'm happy to take constructive criticism as it all helps

Many thanks

Nelson

Spotted this on Facebook and thought some of you might like it.

https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/hurricanemk1c/14981123884/

I personally think it looks really nice.

Thanks guys for your comments, I appreciate them a lot, it's a way of telling me that I'm doing something right and not completely wrong lol, the spoil wagon was the one I was unsure about because they were quite unique and I had to rely on few colour pictures and sometimes colour pics can be quite misleading? But it seems I've done alright, just finished painting the other 7 and will be applying transfers shortly, happy modelling folks

Lovin the 3F

Hello Folks,

This is my (nearly finished) spoil wagon, it's an excellent kit, goes together beautifully and the detail is great.

I hope I have got the colour of the weathering right? I can't decide

Nelson

Hello everyone,

I managed to get the brake van, cattle wagons and coal wagons complete last week and then I began work on Northern Ireland's most famous wagons, the spoil wagons.

These are done by Provincial Wagons and are absolutely superb kits, such a joy to put together, I have built 8 (5 for myself and 3 for a friend) I've nearly finished one of them, just the buffer heads to do then onto the other 7

Many thanks

Nelson

Lovely work, it's all so neat and professional, btw I like your PP

Fantastic thanks for the heads up, decent price too

Must drop an email to SSM, thanks for the heads up, do you know if he does LMS NCC ones?

Superb, absolutely superb, may I ask where you got the transfers from please? I really need to get a few.

Absolutely fantastic I have a few to build myself, I see you replaced the buffers, what did you use?

The top gear team used those paintball tanks in an episode, so funny

The bachmann range of economy sounds was canceled a while back I think, but there's always hornby and their £25 TTS sound option, or train tech and their £40 sound chip and speaker....

I know it's not much but I made these ratio level crossing gates for my brothers layout.

WIP: Work in progress

UMRC: Ulster Model Railway Club

NDMRS: North Down Model Railway Society

FBMRC: First Bangor Model Railway Cub

UFTM: Ulster Folk Transport Museum

MPD: Multi-Purpose Diesel

MED: Multi-Engined Diesel

A few more,

BCDR: Belfast County Down Railway

GNR(I): Great Northern Railway (Ireland)

SLNCR: Sligo Leitrim Northern Counties Railway

LMS (NCC): London Midland Scottish (Northern Counties Commitee)

GSWR: Great Southern Western Railway

And lots more....

Lovely job on the brake van, I'd like to buy one from SSM kits sometime, can they be built using super glue?

Great pics

Hello everyone,

Once again sorry for the delay in this update but better late than never painting figures does take an awfully long time, anyway these are the Zvezda 1/72nd scale Germans in late war winter clothing, superbly moulded in hard plastic so there's very little flash and lots of detail, highly recommended. Then once those were done I started to finish off the Whippet that I started a couple of weeks ago and here are the results, I'm really happy with how it's turned out particularly the weathering and tracks. Now that was all the military kits over and done with I began on some (railway related yay ) GNRI/SLNCR wagons, these are still in the making, they are resin kits from Provincial Wagons, very easy to put together and have lots of detail, the 4 coal wagons are to be heavily weathered.

Thanks for looking, take care,

Nelson

Are u sure?

You can't hide it for long, someone spotted it the moment it arrived a couple of days ago, all over FB

The DBSO also made its way to DP a couple of days ago.