Noel

Your original posting was showing the loco pics ok.

Anybody on the forum going on the Munster Double rail tour this weekend? Looking forward to our first RPSI rail trip. Plenty of reading material for the 12 hour rail trip around the south. Any advice from regular attendees of RPSI trips? https://www.steamtrainsireland.com/whats-on/25/munster-double-railtour

Credit due to Bachmann/MM for the precision gearing of 141 chassis with all wheel drive and all wheel pickups. I've a second SF C class kit in the workbench pipeline using another 141 donor chassis. I'm torn between the flying snail green livery, or the all black livery with the yellow front panel for the next one. It was the first play session I had a chance to run the converted AEC being pushed by the C class. The choice of jazz was homage to some of the old youtube clips of CIE locos from yesteryear Thanks to Kirley's technical post over on RMweb on cutting up an 071 donor chassis for a B101 Sulzer, that my be my next project. I've put two Bachmann powered A classes on temporary hold. Thanks guys.

Thanks Des. Are the wagons stored at some sort of heritage facility, museum, club, or in a public space. Noel

Hi Des, please forgive my ignorance, but what or where is 'Halfway'? Thanks, Noel Halfway down the stairs!

Video clip of CIE C class hauling converted AEC 2600 suburban push-pull set with Craven coaches. Loco is a Silverfox models kit running on a modified Bachmann centre drive chassis (141 donor), DVT is an AEC 2600 RTR by Silverfox models, and the coaches are MM RTR Cravens.

Very interesting clip Fran. Thanks for posting. The bubble looking stunning and running as well. 'IRM towers' premises looking impressive. 0:54s looks like a 17 coach mk3 prototyping line. Nice box of 'event stock' in the background at 54s Lovely weathering job on 184 too, but somebody forgot the two horns (in jest) Interesting to see an early bubble sample on the bench at 8s & 60s. Was it the near side ladder that Richie manhandled in the pub? :) I can see great things emanating from this premises.

That is more good news. http://www.kernowmodelrailcentre.com/p/58241/MM1509-Murphy-Models-Cravens-Buffet-Coach-number-1509TL BTW, are 1508 and 1509 not just a snack bar coaches rather than a buffets (i.e. despite Kernow's description)? Both Murphy Models catalog and RPSI refer to 1508 as a 'snack bar' https://www.steamtrainsireland.com/rpsi-collection/38/cravens-snack-car-1508. As far as I recall they didn't have kitchen facilities for hot food. Does anybody have any photos of the inside of 1522 and its kitchen facilities? Happy days with IRM, RPSI and MM releases this winter. There is a lot happening

Will there be any form of catering facilities at the show with somewhere to sit down for a chat over a cup of tea/coffee and rest ones feet?

Thanks Dave

Hi Rich. Thanks for the heads up re modelmaster. Is this the type product you refer to? https://modelmaster.uk/4mm-locomotive-lining-packs/17713-mm4000b-black-lining-05mm-wide.html If its a waterslide transfer and only 0.5mm thick, I don't see how one can possibly get it absolutely 100% dead straight, especially over a paint surface join between the white and blue paint. BTW, when I used the term 'dark art', I was of course referring to the use of a lining pen nib with wet paint, which from looking at many YouTubes seems a very specialised skill. Check out lining: (it should start 2h21m16s in to the very long video) Cheers Noel PS: The guys in this training video are brilliant but its 3hrs long so recommend only watching the segments of interest.

Nice Leslie. Good to see new kits of unique Irish wagons http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/showthread.php/2900-27101-series-flat-wagons

Thanks Dave Would it not be easier to stick two plasticard panels over the windows of an RPSI coach rather than respray an entire MM B&T, match the colours precisely, and do that thin black lining well enough to match the superb looking RPSI samples? For DIY the black lining seems beyond masking and probably needs the dark and rare art of a lining pen.

It should be a fairly simple and quick DIY modification from an exterior point of view. Two very thin pieces of plasticard hand painted the same cream colour glued over the centre windows like the plating over on 1514. The interior would need a little more work but just a few pieces of plasticard in place of a few rows of seats. I guess it would not be economic for MM to tool for such a tiny volume of a new specialist coach. Does anybody know if the RPSI 3 coach sets are factory repaints of existing MM B&T stock or new factory production models? I had assumed the latter.

Agree a 1514 would be nice. Wiggy over on RMweb posted a nice video of his beautifully resprayed RPSI set which included 1514 Bar car with the window panels covered over. Certainly wets the appetite for the Murphy Models RPSI craven set due to ship in only two weeks time. [video=youtube;bgDj-kGCxio] 1514 RPSI Craven Bar Car

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Very funny maestro

Dave I graciously concede to the superior prototypical authenticity of your rake properly punctuated with two ploughs Updated short video! 2 Locos, 20 IRM ballast wagons, NO Ploughs, 2 brake vans! . . . can't wait for the Cement Bubbles

Great result. Looks great on the layout, love the double header and the speed. A properly punctuated by a pair of ploughs

Eoin THANK YOU - that is a truly superb tutorial on soldering. Appreciate the time it took to put the tutorial together too. Hope it is saved as a sticky post.

Most enjoyable video and views.

Nice video that's shows the wagons off well. Nothing beats the fun and enjoyment of operating model trains on a spectacular layout. The 12 ballasts look really great in that scenery. Mind you Wrenneire had 18 IRM ballasts on his video, and I had 20 IRM ballasts on a kingsbridge video a few months ago. IRM might sponsor a competition for the longest video rake!!! (I jest)

Thanks Fran, don't worry one bit, I too have sinned and often 'flown in the face' of my pals advice. Since moving to Mac a few years ago it's taken me a while to transition to iMovie from various window apps I was familiar with, but I really started to enjoy what iMovie can manage all by itself without needing to use Final Cut Pro. It's quite powerful for a basic editor.

Hi 16miller Sometimes an image JPG can be too large in terms of file size to upload on some sites. It's a good idea to always reduce the size of an image that came directly off a camera or smartphone. Suggest reducing JPG image to 1024 pixals wide before attaching here or uploading to a photo hosting site. This has the added benefits of much faster upload, as well as faster display time. A photo on a camera or smartphone can be anything between 3mb and 10mb file size, but if reduced to 1024px wide will only be about 200k in file size. Retaining the original image size is of no benefit as websites generally only show about 1024 pixals wide on a screen. Noel

And it seems to operate at more prototypical speeds than the toy like speed of the Heljan.