Noel

Looks great. Very impressed with the new name plate above the cab windows. Microscopic work.

This is a great development. I wonder if they will also have one of the 201s painted in a matching livery, and if so might that be done here or in Scotland.

That is really excellent. May you have many happy hours operating your superb layout. Looking at the photos, it appears the layout may be portable and can fold back on itself for transport, is that so? Very clever design.

Thanks guys thats very useful. It will make a change from the trial and error mixing I had to suffer four decades ago.

'Black Vomit' gets my vote for the dull old super train livery, but at least they served proper food back then. A time long past when CIE catered for Business travellers. Now the 201s and MkIVs have an attractive livery but no proper catering. I guess the IR/IE tipex and black roof era combined decent food with decent livery. The old Galway livery might best be described as 'lego-like'. The flying snail green livery was perhaps the classiest.

Hi Folks This has probably been answered here before, but I failed to find threads on it using search. Is there a source for CIE tan colour enamel paints suitable for spraying? A Also a source for CIE logo broken wheel for wagons? Many thanks Noel

I think the guys would probably like a guide. Covering how to open parts of the loco, where to lube with greace and where to lube with oil, gears, shafts, service intervals for motor bushes, how to clean pickups and wheel rims and wheel backs, recommended materials, use of cradle, power clips to run bogies inverted in cradle for lube, cleaning, test, etc, bla, bla

Glad to hear it John. Do you mind me asking out of curiosity, which of the suggested possible fixes worked? Cheers, Noel

Absolutely S T U N N I N G It does not look like a model, instead it looks so utterly and authentically real. I love the colour tones you have used.

Enjoy. It took me a while to adjust to MRSGs "real drive", but it was really worth it. Would love to see a video clip when you are ready

Great idea. How easily does the roof come off MM Mk2 coaches? Somebody suggested to me that the most cost effective way of putting passengers in coaches was to buy assorted packs of folks standing, but cut off their legs and glue them onto coach seats as most seated figures might not fit under tables, or between tables and seating. This was aside from the cost savings compared to buying seated passengers. Has anybody tried this? I'm hoping to repaint the fluorescent blue seating in our cravens and place passengers in them over the Christmas holidays. I'd rather not reinvent wheels if possible.

And CIE's proper diesel loco livery

Ditto. Black CIE locos with tan band and white strips is my favourite era. What an absolutely fabulous layout. This is the period of Irish railways that most interests me. Just love the atmosphere and colour tone of your layout.

MM 141 + MrSoundguy Zimo sound decoder new version of 141 project Turn your volume up. Hope its ok to repost, posted before on the layout thread but thought it would be useful to post here as the video is mainly a MM 141 with Mr Soundguy supplied Zimo sound decoder. I'm really pleased with the sound on the 141 and the way the speaker was so easy to fit without needing to cut any chunks out of the loco chassis. The 'real drive' is a new way of driving a loco, but after a short period of feeling rather mixed about it, have now come to prefer this more realistic way of driving a loco and train. It is just so realistic. No more need for manual notching functions, it just happens intelligently and automatically. Learning to brake rather than just throttling back was new to me, but now that I've got used to it, I'd never go back to the throttle only way of driving one of these amazing MM locos. I love the way she coasts on approaches to stations or stopping points. Just like the real thing you have to plan your stopping distances. In the late 70s I used to have to build inertia DC controllers to simulate this method of stopping or slowing a train. I love it. EDIT: PS: Mod if I shouldn't have posted this hear and its for the supplier use only feel free to remove the post.

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Great scene. 201 central.

No prob just put it in the microwave for 2mins on medium power and it will enlarge

What seems to matter is the length of the chassis (i.e.: distance between the front axle and the rearmost axle of the two bogies). The bogies are shorter than A class hence the larger gap between them (i.e. the three axles of each bogie are closer together). This loco chassis is centre flywheel drive to both bogies so should outperform the toy Hornby's by a country mile for smooth slow running.

Hi Brian wrap the image link with IMG tags to show photo in your posts. See sample below. Absolutely fabulous layout really capturing the atmosphere in Oz. It is just amazing.

'Sniggers' Apologies, Typo - I meant SSM

Ah it might be worth it to have a decent chassis compared to the single power bogie and limited diagonal power pickup many Hornby diesels. 141s can be bought used in mint condition for €80, so that's not an insane price for a top quality precision chassis to run an A class properly. Add SSM detailing plus weathering and lights, then you have one really nice loco.

Looks great. What sound project and decoder are you running? 11 wagons is a nice long train. Ps. Love your layout. It's alive with realism.

That is fabulous. It is as professional looking as RTR models. Hats off on a superb job.

Well there must be some other Bachmann centre drive chassis that would fit, even if a bo-bo. I'd sacrifice scale authenticity on the under frame and bogies to get a stunning and reliable runner like MM. 100% pure scale that runs poorly ends up a static junk display at some outpost on a layout. I'd rather a loco that is useable as a loco rather than just a good looker that can't run smoothly over points.