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jhb171achill
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Thank you! I’ve been experimenting with angles and daylight -v- artificial light. My attic has overhead spotlights, but unfortunately there are two directly overhead. I’ve found that whatever way the angle of natural light is, just when it’s beginning to get dusk, for some reason the best results are obtained. Once I’ve everything done I’ll get the “proper” SLR camera, now unused for some years, out of retirement. For now, I’m just curious to what extent acceptable results can be had with a bog standard mobile. One thing I have learned is that it’s best to take pics from a distance and then zoom in.
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N Scale Ballywillan, Co Longford.
jhb171achill replied to Kevin Sweeney's topic in Irish Model Layouts
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Experimenting with receding daylight to take pics - it was actually duller in the room than the pictures suggest.
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Definitely one of my favourites!
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There's also the small matter of frequent disruptions to ferries these days. With daughter-the-younger now living in Wales, we are more than ever aware of the vagaries of the floating things between us and that island in between us and Mainland Europe!
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Mine is a different thing - a shunter designed but only built as a sample. In an ideal world, the chassis for it would be something not unlike an "E" class diesel chassis, but with even axle spacings.
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With the beet season over now for another year, it’s back to the daily goods in 1969, the passenger service having ceased two years earlier. Things are pretty quiet today - just one laden van and two empties. The McKinsey Report looms…. Here, our intrepid photographer captures the scene from a nearby hill, using a telephoto lens. Yes, very modern.
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Related question: for a future project of my own, would you have any recommendations for a six-wheeled power unit, suitable for DCC even if it's old, but without connecting rods? (00 gauge)
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That is an absolutely amazing job - very well done indeed. One of my biggest regrets is not following No. 28 about when I could so easily have done - and given the right circumstances I could have seen that one too. Very well done. Now, this has me googling Judith Edge kits, though I'm in the 00 rather than 0 gauge world.......
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Those beasts are among my favourite Brexitland locomotives. WELL DONE to Accurascale! Looks superb.
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The parallel world of Dugort…. ”..........So, he throws the newspaper out of the cab window as he goes over the river, but the KEY was INSIDE it in an envelope to “keep it safe”! WHY the hell would ANYONE do that?” ”It was yesterday’s paper…..” ”Me foot’s getting stuck in the mud….” "We NEED to find that key.....!"
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An absolute delight to meet the Past-Avenue team in Donegal last week - many congratulations on finding a home for this inspirational layout, and no more appropriate place. Well done.
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Remember to seat the timers on the left hand side on day 1, and the right on day 2, the drinkers in coach C next the bar, and the weirdos and oddballs in seats 43 to the end......... Seats 1-8 to be set aside for IE crew, 9-12 for RPSI crew, and one seat in the first seating bay in each coach for the marshal for that coach. Seats 50-60 in coach A for the shop section and two seats in the diner marked "crew" for when they're having their break.
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So we can now get both RPSI liveries - the Craven blue & cream and the Whitehead green!
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Very distinctive sound - I remember them brand new and they had a sort of high-pitched "whistling" sound - very different indeed to the hoarse sore-throat sound of an AEC or MED railcar which surrounded them on local services.........
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Certainly looks like it, yes.
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Off topic, I know, but Cyril Fry built a serious amount of LNWR stuff himself (obviously, NOTHING suitable RTR back then!) It has to remain in storage due to space constraints, but I am agitating for extra display space for it....
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Get well soon, Ernie.
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".....who, "Hot Box" O'Driscoll? They're pensioning him off on Tuesday fortnight. He started in Kenmare in 1915, so he's fifty years done. Last o'the oul stock....in fact, he's the last one of us who was there that day...."
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A pristine B168 shunts two "tin vans" at Dugort Harbour in summer 1966. There's a storm brewing out there, but the driver has a flask of hot stewed tea....
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"......Look at that, just three vans. We'll be done by lunchtime. Lot easier since yer man bought a lorry for the animal feed....who's driving today?....." . Dugort Harbour lost its passenger service in 1967. Between then and closure in 1975 there was but one goods train a day, and here it is one day in 1968....
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Proposing Twitter Hashtag #tmrgire for Irish Railway Modelling
jhb171achill replied to Adrian's topic in General Chat
A much more sensible thing! As one who also had this ridiculous medieval claptrap rammed down my throat in school, I saw it at the time as light years beyond crass, and utterly useless; in some cases, a 12-year-old me guessed, just clung onto by some schools to try to prove something very outdated. Throughout adult life, I tended not to alter that thinking - till now! A discussion on Latin produces a very nice image of a steam loco……and a nice GNR one at that! RESULT! -
Extremely nicely done - VERY neat!
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Proposing Twitter Hashtag #tmrgire for Irish Railway Modelling
jhb171achill replied to Adrian's topic in General Chat
A bowl of labor diaboli is quite nice in some Italian places but if it's not cooked properly it can give you a very nasty dose of pax vobiscum. I hear it causes nasty side-effects and unpleasant secretions. -
I'd say so. If I find any info I'll post here......
