JasonB

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Great to see you back posting some work again richrua. Looking forward to watching this progress. 

Same here, handrails would be handy to have, and definitely spare horns. They either end up bent or just disappear altogether. 

Track looks great, love the groundwork around the siding also. 

Flawless piece of work Robert. Very impressive. 

No work done on these since late July, so I made a long overdue return to the barrier wagons during the week. Nearly there now , just the decals to be applied to the tanks and the flats still need a couple of coats of paint. Once that's sorted its on to the Ammonias.

24 minutes ago, NIRCLASS80 said:

More importantly is the Ferts still looking ok for delivery before Christmas or is that wishful thinking. It's just I can get the better half to buy me some for a present!!

Now here's a man talking sense. I like your thinking 

15 minutes ago, thewanderer said:

Evening folks,

A round of up of pictures from the past week include:

Tuesday 14th August 2018:
I had to visit Tullamore this morning and once my business there was concluded, the Up and Down IWT Liners were shortly due to pass through the town. I headed out Clonminch Road Bridge to photograph both workings, both hauled by 201 Class locomotives.

Thursday 17th August 2017:
Images from around the Portlaoise area including 083 hauling the Sperry train on test to Portarlington.

Friday 17th August 2018:
Pictures today come from Heuston, Busaras and Connolly.

Saturday 18th August 2018:
Pictures from St. Stephens Green, Dawson Street, Heuston, Portlaoise and Grange More (near Ballybrophy).

Click https://goo.gl/KXCGWY to view.

Lovely shots as always. Great to see a full liner when there's so little freight about nowadays. 

On ‎8‎/‎8‎/‎2018 at 10:12 PM, ttc0169 said:

A quick photo from the footbridge at Tara junction,161SA hauling the pallet cement liner is held at the junction to allow the bogie bulk cement train depart from the freight yard,

Its a busy time at the freight yard and congestion has been a common problem recently.  

 

Love it Noel

I bought the EGV from the original batch and added the white lining so i could run it with my IE Mk2's, and to be honest i can't tell the difference when there sitting beside each other. Looking at the pics Railer posted the problem with the black line seems to be sorted but the shade of orange looks no darker to me than it did previously.

7 hours ago, John-r said:

Absolutely fantastic Jason, very well done . I have a few of the keg kits to build myself they look great.

can I ask what colour you used for the kegs very realistic 

 

Cheers John-r, colour is Humbrol 53 Gun metal metallic. 

A couple of pics of the cages and kegs now finished. Perfect for in and around a yard or even better on a bogie flat. I think I'll be getting myself some more of these.

3 hours ago, Warbonnet said:

No. 

So you're not ruling it out as a possibility Fran 

Made a start on these cages and kegs this morning. Another great little kit from SSM and so easy to work on. One down, 5 to go.

21 hours ago, John-r said:

Excellent work Jason,.  did you superglue or solder.  Will be watching the rest of your build  with keen interest.

very well done.

Thanks John-r. I suppose the right way when it comes to brass is to solder, but superglue does the job for me and it hasn't let me down yet.

20 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

Absolutely top class as always, Jason.

Cheers JB, much appreciated.

Got going on these beauties from SSM a couple of weeks ago. Just finished are the two 42' flats which will form the barrier wagons. Plenty of cutting, bending and filing with these, but when they start to take shape they really are worth the work. 

With the flats ready it was on to the cradles for the tanks, and in the background are the bogies for the Ammonia wagons.

CIE wouldn't be my preferred era so I consider myself extremely lucky with the releases to date. When you look at the fantastic models now available thanks to the IRM lads you can see why anyone modelling the CIE period would want a piece of the action. These decisions have to make good business sense to be viable, that's just the way of the world unfortunately. Hopefully there's enough interest so the lads can crack on and get these produced for the CIE fans. I'll be sticking with my IE Ploughs which I have ordered and can't wait to get my hands on. 

Good to see you back at it Tony, really like the look of that. Looking forward to watching this progress now.

Very handy solution Eoin, as you say it's always the tin of paint your looking for that's buried at the bottom of the storage box.

Very tidy work. They'll easily pass the two foot rule. 

Adding the extension was a good idea Tony. Gave you that extra bit of space needed which always helps. Really like the angle of the shed, it works well rather having it pushed into the corner running flush against the wall.

On ‎7‎/‎12‎/‎2018 at 12:47 PM, Warbonnet said:

Hi everyone,

Here's a look at the Fert with the centre beams. @Glenderg has done a stunning job on this, along with all the other project 42 bits! 

We will have news on the Ferts such as liveries, running numbers and price very soon, and will throw open the order books.

Cheers,

Fran

I've probably said it before but the bar just seems to get pushed that little higher with each release. The detail on this is just stunning. The Fert was always one of my favourite wagons but I never thought id see the day when such a high quality RTR model would be available to buy. Really looking forward to these. Top class lads and credit as always to all involved

8 hours ago, Broithe said:

The media understand their audience very well. Audience figures are their goals and they will do what is necessary to inflate those. When people stop being useful to that end, they will drop them and start a new campaign - tennis, motor racing, whatever is available and fits in with their targets at the time.

And the audiences will generally go along with it.

Agree totally, but they insist on being sucked in as each tournament comes around and never seem to learn. It was strangely quiet building up to this world cup, then with a few of the favourites tipped to win it noticeably struggling in the group stages the hype machine kicked into gear as it always does, same story, same result....

Always amazes me when the inevitable finally happens how the english media change their tune. 2 weeks ago Sky Sports were more or less saying they were world beaters and had this sewn up, and this was still at the group stages. Within an hour of them going out last night they were a young side that had overachieved and nobody had expected them to get this far. Always gives me a good laugh, roll on the euros