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So, Garfield is supplying peaches as well! Excellent...........!

Me!

Absolutely - I couldn't agree more. (Volume Three: "Rails through Glen More".....) My own pending effort is intended to recreate exactly the same period and scenes. If it ends up half as well, I'll be happy.

Maybe that was it..........

I had G scale in my last house... I have a very nice scratch built Spanish 1100-class 3ft gauge prototype diesel, like a 3ft gauge A class. I also had a somewhat more crude Majorcan railcar (1959 Creusot type), and a couple of carriages and a scratch built E class guards van. All in storage with Nephew right now - could resurrect if anyone was interested. The line closed and was lifted at last house move. Eoin - do you scratch build live steam?

I read several years ago - somewhere - of somebody using 009 track to represent 3ft gauge, modelling locos and rolling stock to 3mm scale. Did anyone hear of such efforts or have any experience of this?

Absolutely! The Creator ordained it that bogies were for carriages and 4.4.0 locomotives, not wagons! Well at least we don't have to have these new-fangled 071s......

Brian is the Messiah!

It also means more Provincial "H" vans, as I'll need a few brown ones too!o Dont forget cattle wagons, Glenderg!

It also means more Provincial "H" vans, as I'll need a few brown ones too!

Damn! Damn! Damn! My plans for an exclusively 1950s / 60s collection is now up in smoke! I'm going to have to have ferts and Guinness traffic......yes, shtick me down for some! This means I'll also need a "Supertrain"-liveried 141......!

Green..... accurate, though in this light, and with new paint, as under the floodlights at Ballyglunin for the "Quiet Man" scenes, the dark green shows as bright as it ever was. After being in traffic, it toned down and could look a bit darker and a lot "flatter". The above weathered would do the trick on a model. EDN shows accurately here - on my screen anyway!

That is certainly true initially, though I don't know at what time they decided to let 071s in there.

Hot off the press, thanks to Robert Gardiner, GM of DCDR: the pre-1955 dark green, post-1955 mid green and the EDN paints are coded as follows: Dark Green is BS381C/227 Lighter Green is RAL6001 Eau de Nil is BS381C/216 The last one I'm not sure about on paper, but on vehicles at Downpatrick it is quite correct.

Mighty stuff indeed, Paddy - superb!

I have to say, folks, if there's a load of new stuff all together on the market, like many here I certainly can't afford to buy it. For a number of reasons I'm VERY financially committed this year. However, since I know from above comments I'm not alone, surely the answer is that the various items concerned will simply sell that bit slower - thus enabling a bit of saving. In my case, I'll prioritise. I'm still trying to pick up the odd thing that was offered for sale a few years ago but is now sold out - but these were snapped up at the time (e.g. Mayner's excellent tin vans). If all these new things appear at once, the rate of buying will hopefully slow to the extent that we'll mostly all get a bite of the pie... Hopefully, anyway....

Exactly..... all of us would need to be looking at the real thing in daylight, and a model, not a computer screen!

And they're potentially blocking the way for emergency services. Idiots like this put people's lives at risk, like that stupid woman who went SWIMMING and had to have a lifeline thrown to her. Natural selection......

Mostly A class by far, occasionally 071 also from time to time. I don't know of any reason why a "pair" or 121 / 141 / 181 types couldn't also haul them, though I can't think of examples of it happening.

I would echo that entirely - we've never had it so good. ALL the manufacturers here have taken a big commercial risk in catering for what is actually a tiny market - but with such quality. hats off - to Murphys, Des, Leslie, and everyone else, and IRM.

Sheer artistry. Older green paints tended to show a yellowy tint when weathered, as the yellow pigment they used lasted better than the blue. The little yellowish tints you have included perfectly illustrate paintwork that is well overdue a repaint = absolutely prototypically for the time. The danger in West Cork and other places seemed to be that once they DID get around to repainting it, closure was imminent!

Damn! Damn! Damn! My plans for an exclusively 1950s / 60s collection is now up in smoke! I'm going to have to have ferts and Guinness traffic......yes, shtick me down for some! This means I'll also need a "Supertrain"-liveried 141......!

I saw that fella on the Enniskerry Road earlier..................... (I got the last pan loaf........cost me €120 but I sold it later on ebay for €1000....)

From the above, clearly one might get the exact EDN shade by one part 14E50 and two parts 216. The RAL 6021 is the closest of all of them, by far, without alteration.

That's pretty good, yes. The dark green - providing the computer screen shows it accurately - is just right. The EDN looks fine too - there appears to be a slight difference between the paint and the transfer, but it's close enough. The close-up pic of the paint pot above, however, for the EDN looks fine to me. Interesting...... firstly, the same EDN for both green periods, as the transfers didn't change for numerals etc. Above, the green paint on the coach, to be honest, isn't quite right for the lighter shade - from viewing on a computer it seems almost as if it has an "olivey green" shade in it. somewhere. The open pots, though - left hand about the right darkness but a bit yellowy. the pot on the right more like it but a bit dark. We're getting there, folks! A valuable exercise, though it's bound to drive some readers mad! :-)