JasonB

Brilliant Kieran,love the 071 with the bogie cements they look great together

Next job on the list is my MK2 EGV.I know it has been discussed at length here previously regarding the finish of this model so I won't go into it again myself.The reason its on the bench is,when it was released first time around in the IE livery I was slow off the mark to pick one up,and when I did eventually go looking I couldn't get one anywhere.The general opinion from what Ive read seems to be that you can get away with using this because its closer to IE orange rather than Supertrain so I had this in mind when I bought it.Anyway i'll give it a shot and see how it goes.

Very tidy,looking like a success already:)

Brilliant as always.

Having a go at a 42' bogie flat from Studio Scale Models/Weshty. May have bitten off more than I can chew but I ll give it a whirl

I have one here myself Rich that I'm hoping to get to at some stage so I'm watching this with interest to see how you find it

As Richie points out,they are nearly identical.Nothing that some decals and a bit of work cant sort out.

Lovely bit of work:tumbsup:

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3 rakes....

Lovely photo Railer,i didn't think id see less than 3.Looks like I'm selling some of these

They look great Jason

Thanks Jimbo

Very nice Jason, they look great and the graffiti is good,not too much.

Cheers Popeye,the graffiti was more an experiment than anything else,it took was awful lot of cutting masking tape and too much time cleaning an airbrush,think it will be decals next time!

Thanks for the comments lads,yes Lima going by that photo I think I've got myself two rakes now:)

Been a bit busy of late with one thing and another but ive eventually got the Bachmann seacows finished.Ive also started on a Hornby one as well to make up a rake of seven which was in and around the norm I think.As with the autoballasters I worked on previously ive done a bit of work to change the colour of the load because I wasn't happy with how it looked at all and Ive also given them a bit of a weathering so they all don't look identical.

Ahead of the game as always,looks great:tumbsup:

Very nice Kieran,love that shed top notch:-bd

Great start to the workshop,one of my favourite wagons,a fine piece of modelling

Lovely work Eamonn,nice job on the tail lift:tumbsup

Looking forward to the updates

Great job,particularly like 077 nice bit of grime on it

Very nice

They look great,that weathering is excellent,so realistic.

Lovely work George,cant beat the look of a bell container sitting on a flat.

Very nice work,they can look good full or empty.

Thanks popeye:tumbsup:As you say they are a nice wagon, I'm looking forward to getting them finished and get them running.

Haven't managed to get much work done on the wagons the last few weeks but here's the progress so far.All have had a couple of coats of yellow and while doing that I've taken the chance to give some a rougher finish than others,the reason for that will be further down the line.I've been in two minds about adding the ballast load especially after the positive comments on how well the rust looked in the first wagon.So what I decided to do was add a load to one of the freshly painted wagons and weather it just above and below that ballast line.By doing this it would just be a matter of digging it back out and weathering the whole interior instead if I decided not to keep it in.Now that its dried and hardened I'm liking how it looks so I,ll continue on weathering and filling the rest.Once their all done I can make a start on finishing touches.

Nice job Eamonn,i picked up a mixture of 20 and 40' bell's at the raheny show the year before last and still have nothing to put them on,seeing that i really have to get around to getting some 42' flats for them they look so good.