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  1. Irishrailwayman
    During lockdown I am working on a variety of my (7!) layouts including Ballybeg. I am currently working on some Studio Scale Models kits (thanks Des) to increasingly ensure Irish features predominate. This includes the level-crossing gates which I intend to add working lamps and to operate using servo motors in time. Here they are loose-fitted to Ballybeg:
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    The MM locos are delivered DCC-ready with a blanking unit in to allow running on DC only. Could you have confused this blanking unit for a DCC chip I wonder? Checking each loco's number on the Programming Track in advance of running is good practice - if you can't read the loco number then the DCC system is not happy that all is well and vice versa. If it is not happy on the PT then don't run it on the DCC Main Track until the problem is sorted.
  3. Irishrailwayman
    Good progress on Little Siddington since the lockdown was eased with more scenery and a servo-operated level-crossing added:
  4. Irishrailwayman
    For interest here is a photo of B123 presumably just out of the factory in the USA!
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    No doubt but for the price I would expect the model to work straight from the box.
  6. Irishrailwayman
    The multi-levels look very effective.
  7. Irishrailwayman
    The speaker unit - I swapped the soundchip between each model.
  8. Irishrailwayman
    Unfortunately, I know of a number of people (at least 3 so far) where the sound was muffled/distorted when the 121 MM soundchip was activated. Thankfully others including mine arrived with sound functioning well from the off.
  9. Irishrailwayman
    A couple of shots of "Shunters Yard" in its new GWR livery:
  10. Irishrailwayman
    Working at present to repaint "Shunters Yard" OO gauge buildings/fencing in GWR colours borrowed from my recent work on "Buffers Lock" O gauge buildings. First up I have repaired/repainted/detailed a signal box gifted by a friend to replace that on the layout at present:
  11. Irishrailwayman
    How will you work the uncoupling for shunting purposes? PS chipboard is prone to damage from damp.
  12. Irishrailwayman
    Nice pic NIRClass80. Yes the 141/181 was the first of the post-MIR locos to be released RTR and stands up well over the 10 years or more that it was released.
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    Just for fun I took some photos of my older (2008) 121 model made from Model Irish Railways resin kit (hand painted) and put it beside Murphy Models fine new RTR model. MIR's version is fractionally longer, taller and the bonnet is less slender/detailed than MM's. However, I seem to have caught the grey colour fairly well. The MIR transfers included a border in black around the logo and numbers which is absent on the MM model? I used a DCC-ready US SW1500 chassis but never managed to find one which incorporated sound although I did use the twin directional headlamps to good effect. An earlier (2005) perhaps less successful effort by me of an MIR metal kit of the 121:
  14. Irishrailwayman
    I like the C with the yellow panel - is that a Silver Fox model?
  15. Irishrailwayman
    No Noel, I plan to operate the points and signals on "Buffers Lock" using my Z21 set up as I have done successfully with "Diesel Depot"!
  16. Irishrailwayman
    Timber Track's cattle dock painted and now complete:
  17. Irishrailwayman
    Wait 'till you hear the sound project it is really impressive!
  18. Irishrailwayman
    Personally I have always liked the grey/yellow version and got great reactions over the time I ran my MIR version on "Ballybeg" at exhibitions! Crude compared with MM but this was completed back in 2008.
  19. Irishrailwayman
    Tested my 135 at Wexford MRC clubrooms today: the sound is very realistic and different to the 141/181 sounds. Excellent model!
  20. Irishrailwayman
    Best wishes to Paddy for all he has done for the hobby of Irish railway modelling.
  21. Irishrailwayman
    Thanks Tim. The 6mm cork was glued down with strong builders' neat PVA and weighed down until set over a few days. The rails were laid down precisely in accordance with printed templates (Templot) placed directly on the baseboard cork. The rails were then tacked in place with track nails mainly on the outer sleepers to avoid compacting them. The cork was cut away at an angle to provide a shoulder for the ballast. Finally, dry ballast was dusted over the rails and distributed/shaped with a fine brush. This was then wetted by spraying with much water/wash-up liquid mix and a strong solution of builders' PVA was added by dropper. Once set over a few days this holds the rails in place in a concrete-like grip!
  22. Irishrailwayman
    Signal box interiour now completed:
  23. Irishrailwayman
    The Goods Shed is now complete:
  24. Irishrailwayman
    Thanks Leslie, these are very well crafted kits beautifully presented and a joy to make. Under Buildings on their website Timber Tracks state "So, as we are retiring at the end of the year, we are happy to release the test build models we have. In almost all cases, there is only one finished kit available and once sold there will be no more". Also, contact with them directly has confirmed that once their stock of any given model kit is sold out, they will not be making any more. A pity.
  25. Irishrailwayman
    Signal box exteriour complete interiour details underway:
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