Noel

Looks great Dave, and for good price. Enjoy.

Superb end result and the detailing is excellent.

The video is still not visible to public

+1 Yes they use a soft setting glue that can be easily cut and pulled apart. It's like bostik.

Hi Noel. FYI, That Facebook link doesn't work "content is not available right now". It may be limited to "friends" only rather than public. Noel

You could probably get anything between €130 and €150 on eBay the way baby GMs have been selling these past three months

Plough van looks great Kieran. Well done.

Correct. We hired electrically assisted bicycles last year for the great western greenway and really enjoyed it. Stunning scenery, some woodland settings like a harry potter setting, and most of the route nowhere near roads. The silence combined with the views out to sea was memorable. http://www.greenway.ie

Amazing ICE layout. Just found this old post. A bit modern for my preferred era, but nonetheless very impressive and visually appealing. Interesting to note combination mix of preformed track ballast and loose track ballast. Those rakes have stunning grip and road holding. You almost think they should do a timed lap of the top gear track.

Here is an easy former railway line 'where is it'?

And they were not particularly nice looking name plates - flat with recessed letters instead of proud with a border.

Interesting and good progress Eoin. Thanks for taking the time to post the video. Is the bogie 6 or 4 wheel pickup?

I too enjoy (suffer) playing with trains too much. The one word I have had to learn more than anything else is 'patience'. The temptation to rush to the rails is ever present. On the advice of a pal I found having more than one project on the go helps by allowing for overlap (e.g. work on a project B step while waiting a day for project A to cure, etc).

Hi Paul. Forgive long winded reply. From my limited experience I have found it depends on the stock to be converted, and bare in mind I'm new to this so please bare with a big pinch of salt, and it is simply the way I have done it "so far", and not necessarily the best, a right or wrong method. On some Bachmann BR wagons that were already plain grey or plain brown, all I had to do was spray the under frames with sleeper grime (no black chassis allowed), apply CIE broken wheel or flying snail decals using 'decal fix' which helps with matt finishes, and then gently weather the wagon bodies (sleeper grime for the grey wagons, frame dirt for the brown wagons), finishing with a coat of humbrol matt varnish from a rattle can. I now always remove the wheels first but that only takes a few seconds, but before that to avoid removing wheels, I used to plug a small paper template with slots between the wheels and under frame sides (i.e. to avoid spraying the wheel surfaces and generating future track dirt). Another reason I now remove the wheels is to hand paint the sides of them with sleeper grime (i.e. to get rid of the metal or black finish on RTR wagon wheels). Other wagons and coaches I have simply sprayed Halfords plastic grey primer on them without removing factory paint, and then resprayed in desired colour, light weathering, decals on matt surface, and then matt varnish to seal. In some cases I have rubbed off protruding factory logos and thick lining using ultra fine sand paper before priming. Halfords is wonderful and can hide a multitude of sins. On the two recent locos, for decals I played safe with convention, and applied gloss varnish after weathering, then applied the decals to the gloss surface, and the finished with matt varnish to seal and get the dull matt look back. Decals seem more prominent and numerous on locos and I like the way they appear seamless when applied onto a gloss finish which can be brought back to a matt or satin finish (i.e. no visible edges to the transfers nor colour variation). Hope that makes sense. Noel

No way - we wear ordinary cloths when we are on the bikes, just tuck trousers into our socks. I don't dress up like Michael Schumacher when driving a car so I simply don't understand why some folk dress up like Stephen Roche or Sean Kelly when going for a leisure cycle. Yummie - agree 100%, can't wait for the grey liveried Murphy Model 121 release this autumn. The livery has quite grown on me especially because of memories travelling behind them to Galway in the 1960s. The grey 121 can haul flying snail green coaches as well as black'n'tan, and indeed mixed livery rakes. I still find it difficult to believe that bridge structure was able to carry the weight of a 121 and rolling stock.

Your old layout looked of a very high standard. Looking forward to watching your new layout progress.

Correct. Give that man a pat

I can't give it away much more! Clue it is in Munster. How the structure of that bridge carried a diesel loco is beyond me!

Choo choo!

Proved well deserved in the end. Just collected IRM Ballast wagons (was away on hols). WOW! I was expecting and in truth hoping they would be good, but I was astonished!!! They are stunningly exquisite, hyper detailed, beautifully finished, very tastefully packaged, but most of all they are the highest quality RTR model wagons I have ever seen. IRM have indeed raised the bar to such a high level, that other manufacturers such as Bachmann, Fleischmann and Märklin, cannot but fail to notice and be impressed. Well done team IRM - Stephen, Fran, Patrick and Richie. Wishing you continued success with IRM's future plans. Now I am really looking forward to the cement bubbles, and beyond. Will post up some pics or a vid later in the week. Well done guys - a class act.

Best this novice can manage I'm afraid on the undulating surface. But at least it looks like a duck from 2ft.

Right so Ted, here is another clue

Time to start adding some detail bits'n'pieces to 121 class. Pic shows how well the Athearn SW1500 chassis fits with only the metal lugs at each ends of the chassis needing to be cut away with a mini drill rotary saw and internal mounts added. Plenty of spaces for speakers inside. Plan to replace the bogie sides and fuel tank this week. Won't add any hand rails until everything is finished for fear of bending them while handling. Will have to do windows before doing inside of cab. After painting Before painting

It's ex GS&WR

A where is it?