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jhb171achill replied to thewanderer's topic in Photos & Videos of the Prototype
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That NCC 2.6.0 is a masterpiece! What gauge is it, do you know?
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That is a really interesting thread - many thanks - and it's looking great already. A much-ignored but essential piece of our railway history, and crying out for a RTR version. I'll take three........
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I don't want to throw the thread off-topic too much, but I often wondered what Mk 2s and Mk 3s (and even Mk 4s!) would have looked like in 1960/70s black'n'tan!
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I have a German V100 bo-bo which I got dirt cheap somewhere. Was considering putting it in CIE green as something they inherited from the GNR, as one of the designs the GNR actually WERE looking at, was outwardly similar.
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I’d be hanging onto my beans on that one!
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I’m a big believer in the idea that we’re all entitled to our opinions on what is good or bad value, whether we are prepared to pay more locally than online, or whatever. For what it’s worth, for me - I’m a very strong believer in supporting local shops and businesses, especially in these times when a combination of the Covid and brexit are putting more pressure than ever on local businesses. I’ve bought stuff on eBay and from Hattons, but only when it’s something that Mark’s Models, IRM, Murphy or sellers are the shows don’t have. I do the same with household shopping. Let’s support our own people first.
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Probably 29th June.
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I don’t know, Hexagon - I suspect it’s to do with the kitchen. I think I’ve a floor plan at home.
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See below: That’s the first lot. What follows is one more model in the same livery, but the blue he used isn’t quite right - it’s a shade on the light side. Also, an MGWR coach in CIE 1955 green, and one of Fry’s two MGWR coaches which he painted in their 1928-25 lined maroon.
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Presumably the model will have the "pencil sharpeners" attached to the buffer beam!
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Interesting. When I cleared out the papers of the late Marcus Bailie-Gage some years ago, there was much in the way of (sadly, damp-destroyed and rat-chewed) brochures from GM and also other diesel loco manufacturers in the 1950s, all relating to their proposed sales to the GNR in Dundalk, where MBG was the Works Manager. I didn't see one exactly like this, but I did see others not dissimilar. MBG told Senior at one stage that had the Northern government seen fit to cough up, they proposed ordering diesels to trial on Belfast - Cavan and Enniskillen. Imagine one of those things above with a string of old wooden GNR coaches - a bizarre thought......
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Tony, if you mean those carriages as shown, no - they are standard British Rail Mk 1s in an approximate CIE livery.
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Interesting - I was unaware of those.... "N" gauge is the "next big thing" for RTR Irish stuff......hopefully! Given availability of even a few basics, it is a route I would have chosen, simply to get more into less space. I looked at the Shapeways stuff in that scale, but it's far, far too crude - or was when I looked at it, anyway.
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And the furry dice! IRM folks - when you do A39 as it is now, I take it you're aware that on the DCDR there has been a tradition for a long time that all locos have furry dice in them! It's true.........goes back to the days of the "E" class being the main power........
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You'll need 00 scale models of the Wanderer, the IRRS programme organiser, and certain other Kodak-clad people! And headboards saying "ITG" and "IRRS"....
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Just when we thought the bar could not be set any higher..........! Superb!
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If it's 5'3", it's almost certainly Brazilian. I know someone who knows a bit about the railways there who might know. At 600hp, it would be a shunter. I wonder if it was built!
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If it's liveries we want, beware of Alphagrafix. Many of their colour schemes look very well and are absolutely accurate, but others are either wrong (white lining on green CIE coaches, for example), and one with some sort of yellow line along the waist, whilea few are 100% fictitious! That blue Midland one, to be fair, is close enough.
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..........as long as they were in the right livery..........!
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Believe me, Midland Man, when you're on the footplate of an engine in motion, you barely notice it!
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I'll take them tomorrow and post them. I'll be working in there at some stage during the day probably. He has one of the same set also in GSR maroon. For some reason, none of his MGWR models are in the standard MGWR coach brown. The blue and white looks a lot better of course, but it never reached the vast majority of the fleet at all, and was very short-lived on those which were painted thus. The MGWR maroon livery, used 1918-25, was a very dark shade, much darker than GSR.
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Let them finish the “A”s first, Leslie... priorities!
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Mighty mighty stuff........ might order that one too!
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Modellers will notice that as in grey days, sometimes the cab interior was the same colour as all of the engine instead of some combination of light brown and cream, as used by most companies on most locos. here, the late CIE all-black includes an all-black cab interior!
