Noel

A clever and logical progression. Enterprising and good business. Best of luck to Stephen and the gang. I have no doubt they will have even greater business success in the much larger market.

Yes the upper body colour wasn't bad at all, but the Lima chassis under frames and bogies were pretty poor compared to the MM variants and scale. I wonder why MM did their own 201s given they had already produced the Lima variants. An A class might have sold better than a second bite at the 201 cherry.

That price for a Lima made loco? . . . and with a buffer missing. Feel like using the 'make an offer' facility to offer €10 for it as a themed paper weight.

You have no idea how you have just tempted me to respray one of my tippex 071s into this stunning B&T livery. Btw thats a very classy photoshop.

I know Lite ply, spruce, balsa

Wonderful building. Impressed.

I used one of these saws for 25 years on the aero modelling side

Luas-Mór - Photoshopped from one of Fran's excellent photos, even if of an unfortunate subject

That is seriously impressive alright. Looks so like the wagon below.

Agree its not worth paying, especially as PhotoBucket's service and site performance is so poor. Easy solution is to bulk download entire PB albums to ones PC and then bulk upload to an alternate hosting site, then edit the links in past posts here (i.e. with temporary edit privilege granted by admins).

Hi Dave. Stephen could temporarily grant your forum account edit permission for your old posts. That's how I updated mine. He kindly switched it on for me for a number of days and I edited virtually every post I'd made with images. Worked a treat. Noel Ps. Dont forget you yourself have not lost a single photobucket image. They are all still there, you just need to move them to another host, or download the lot back to your own PC and then optionally edit them back in as attachments rather than links. I went the former route (there's a thread somewhere how dunnit).

What a splendid and wonderful desecration of a beautifully hyper detailed fine scale model. Respect and due homage to Sir Richard, even though such perfectly authentic filth is not my personal cup of tea, I humbly recognise the skilful art and life like execution of same. Sublime.

The new forum software is much easier to do something like this. Edit post Backspace over or DEL to delete existing broken image in the post to remove it Copy the image URL of the replacement image on your new hosting site (i.e. not photobucket) Paste the image URL of the replacement image into the post at the cursor location (e.g.http://www.somephotosite/wrenneire/murphyalbum/IMG1234.jpg ) The new forum software will automatically convert the new URL into a visible image which will appear before your eyes within a second or two. Repeat if any other images in the post. Save the post A few hours should do it. With the old vBulletin BB it only took me a few hours to update all my old posts with images. What will take you time is to re-upload the images to your new photo hosting site (assuming you still have the original JPGs), or alternatively you can still download each of your PhotoBucket albums one at a time to your PC and this saves you downloading images one at a time (e.g. if you download a PB album with 200 images, all 200 will download to your PC in one step). You may then be able to use a bulk upload tool with your alternate image hosting web site. IMHO, that superb Lima Murphy Models thread is worth the effort if you have the time. PS: It looks like the new forum has a photo storage cache, so copies of linked images are stored here and therefore will never be lost again in the future (i.e. insulation against typical issues like albums being moved, renamed or deleted, photobucket, dropbox policy changes, etc). A good idea thanks to Stephen.

Was distracted running trains a few evenings ago when coupling let fly as B181 was hauling mixed goods traffic on the lower level, half the train left behind, me distracted B181 ran around the layout and ran into the back of the other half of its train knocking the 20ft Bells off their skeletal flats. I'd always intended to put some sort of studs or mounts to stop containers moving around. I don't like the idea of gluing them on or double sided tape as I wanted the ability to run the flats empty or with different loads. Normally gravity kept the 20ft containers on top of the flats, but the little mishap forced me to act and add studs to the skeletal flats and holes in the underside of the 20ft Bell containers. Used painted cocktail sausage sticks cut to size with a jig for the four holes. In the end I only put two studs on each wagon as that was enough to stop them moving around. Anyway a brief distraction from the GSV and weathering the rest of my IRM Cement Bubbles

I thought many of the 'flying snail' city buses got the CIE broken wheel for year or two before they were eventually repainted cream and blue.

Looks not entirely unlike this 1/76 bus from Hattons: http://www.hattons.co.uk/86892/EFE_16136_Leyland_PD2_Highbridge_C_I_E_Southern_Ireland_/StockDetail.aspx

PS: I'll bring a 141 with the same sound project, but we could also push it with your fab Sulzer and a few other of your sound locos.

Hi Gerry. Yes would love to. That sounds like a plan. Perhaps on a Saturday before a WMRC visit. Noel

Hi Gerry. What an interesting idea, never thought of that. Thanks for the invite - I'll be there. Looking forward to Ireland's premier layout exhibition. Noel

I think it is customary to stick ones arm out when the bus is approaching! Hattons have some Irish 1/76 buses from £28-£32 each. http://www.hattons.co.uk/86892/EFE_16136_Leyland_PD2_Highbridge_C_I_E_Southern_Ireland_/StockDetail.aspx http://www.hattons.co.uk/88529/EFE_16137_16137_Leyland_PD2_Highbridge_C_I_E_C_ras_Iompair_ireann_/StockDetail.aspx

Brilliant

Pure nostalgia gold. Thanks for posting. The numerous Bulleid open beat wagons were the essence of beat transport and open goods traffic for decades on our railways. A few were to be seen in the sidings in every single station in Ireland during the 50s to late 70s and even into the early 80s. If one day it ever became an IRM project I suspect it might be their most commercially successful wagon and numerically the biggest seller of all time for a quality Irish RTR wagon. One day perhaps! I wonder how many of these still exist in preservation, storage or even a few back gardens along the railways.

Very nice video Robbie with some great scenes. The mk4 sets are great to watch from outside and even better to travel in. I miss the mk3 sets. The well shot and composed video segments even made 22k's look like proper trains as opposed to Luas-Mor!

Holy Moly - George, that's a fabulous volume of exquisite work. A master class.