Noel

Hi Kevin. Cheers. No prob, it was done to the clients specs not mine.

Love the models. Looks like 21mm? Stunning sheds.

Fab read.

Thanks @jhb171achill you are the 'oracle' and fountain of most interesting knowledge. Fascinating, and thanks for posting.

Lightly weathered a MM mk2 ST coach for a friend. The prototype Supertrain livery never really floated my boat, but after a bit of weathering I'm beginning to change my mind. These after all are closer in time to my favourite B&T era than the later more attractive tippex livery, and overlapped operations with B&T livery stock for much of the 1970s. Used a mix of airbrushing and weathering powders applied wet using paint brush and cotton buds (water+decalfix). The roof now looks less like an air marshals day-glo bat.

Looks just a mix up in body centres from two locos, an IE and IR. Could easily happen when fitting decoders and the IR and IE bodies got mixed up between two locos when being put back on.

Best wishes for the continued growth and success of the business

Excellent photo. Black'n'Tan delight. Might I helpfully suggest that pic is put on IRM's A23r shop page instead of the existing A42r photo to avoid customer confusion about the loco number and livery variant. https://irishrailwaymodels.com/collections/a-class-locomotive/products/a23r-a-class-locomotive

A most interesting and informative read. Craftsmanship.

Today serviced and test ran weathered no 379 hauling six green CIE flying snail era coaches (3 x Bachmann + 2 x Dapol + 1 x Hornby)

This transcends railway modelling. You should be making model sets for movies like James Bond or the next Star Wars. Superlatives are inadequate. Respect!

Your new 107 looks really well. One of the nicest finished Sulzers I've seen and a great paint job. Stock always looks great on your fabulous layout.

Today was the first outing of an Irish steam loco on the layout. Bachmann CIE exGSR/MGWR Woolwich no 390

Well done Ireland Rugby Team - Shoulder2Shoulder

Sublime

Thanks Patrick. It was just the new photos on the IRM web site that caused a degree of confusion. So two high band B&Ts and one low band B&T.

Thanks Patrick. And will A15 be high or low band?

PS2: . . . sorry, AND the photo on A23r web page depicts a photo of A42r with the wide orange band!

Glad I ordered an 017 then. Livery is outside my era but I felt I should have one as due homage to the more modern livery. PS: FYI, the loco photo on your website page for A39r actually depicts A23r with the lower stepped band livery. Will A39r be sold in its current restoration livery with the wide band, or as depicted on the A39r web page with the narrower stepped band?

I got that very train set in 1971. Brings back happy memories. The novelty value of the overhead lines, working pantograph and coach lighting was enough to make a small boy feint.

If I remember correctly the coaches had working lights and the pantograph actually worked for power pickup.

I hear you David, imperfect indeed, but it was massive exposure for the hobby on mainstream media targeted primarily at the mass audience rather than hobbyists. I thought the local teams work was stunning especially in the heats.

Hi Tony. Open forums like this and most others, are available for the public to read, and therefore have never offered privacy over content posted. The public sees only what we have volunteered to contribute. Our emails are not divulged unless we post them. Changing your username from your actual personal name to an 'internet persona' helps. Some folks may be unaware that photos they take of layouts, etc, on a smartphone and post contain the precise location where that photo was taken (i.e. the address where the layout was). This can be switched off on any smartphone so photos do not contain location information. Having said that, it is relatively easy to ensure one does not divulge personal information nor security information in the content of ones postings by just being common sense careful (e.g. like going away on hols, etc, full names, addresses, phone numbers, etc). Bear in mind Goggle maps and Google street view already have a photo of every home and work place. Noel

Cheers Jonathan. Thought you might enjoy those two PST scenes. Thanks Seamus. I nearly fell off my perch when I saw the Cork shed photo.

Black'n'Tan heaven this evening re-enacted at Woodvale Junction A pseudo re-enactment below of the B&W photo of B&T locos posted earlier today. Nostalgia Gold - B&T Heaven in B&W posted earlier http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/topic/7134-nostalgia-gold-bt-heaven-in-bw/