roxyguy

That looks mega for sometime that was a 3D print. Fair play.

They really are awful. You cant even respray them because the glazing doesn't pop out.

I recently bought 4 of the short arse Mark 3's mistakenly. I'm not sure what to do with them now, maybe I could make up a few of these yokes:)

Roxyguy, this was an absolute thrill to watch, you have done an amazing job and you couldn't have chosen a better background soundtrack . The trains run so smoothly and travel such distance. I love it.

Kind words thank you. It's basically a very big train set. My inner child looses their mind every time they see it.

Quick video of some trains running

Lovely to see those pictures. You get a great sense of enjoyment from looking at them.

The look very nice. What kind of money?

Pints available?

 

Excellent - we'll all call round later.

This restaurant actually serves its drink with G scale trains. Epic.

Cheers lads, will be nice to have it running around the garden for the summer. I might be able to balance a pint in the open wagon.

Not the correct livery or prototypical, but much more presentable in the garden.

She's very boring though and not that good. Have a look at Kathy Millatt, great videos and very good modelling too.

I hear ya. She sometimes fall into the "let's carefully examine the box" category of video.

I'll check that out.

I like Sam and Chambs because they just like to run trains and don't take any of it too seriously.

Enjoyed this youtube channel very much also.

Along with Chambs123, Intercity82 and Sam's trains.

Has anyone ever watched Jenny Kirk's Channel. A female railway modeller (pause for shock)

https://www.youtube.com/user/jennyemily667

Proper chimney, remove cowcatcher and add proper buffer beam, round-topped dome and super-sized headlamps, and dip it in a tin of grey paint and you've a Westish Clareish looking thing indeed.....

That's the plan, it's just a bit of cheap fun for the garden. I bought some decal paper so I am tempted to put an EDN snail on it!

I hear ya. Now this is slightly off topic but it's related.

I loved the TV version of Thomas Tank when I was a child because of all it's wonderful miniatures.

I never ever felt compelled to buy any of the hornby thomas stuff because it didn't look right. They just bashed up moulding they had already and put a face on it.

When I saw the Bachmann stuff, which is new tooling and a faithful reproduction of what I remember from the TV show as a child It had an immediate emotional effect based on memory. So I bought some.

Not to mention that sight itself is subjective. There is a psychological factor, people see and remember colours in very different ways.

I myself am slightly colour blind and rely and pantone numbers for accuracy.

That's the thing about photos, even now. I have worked in print for years - You cant rely on them for colour matching whatsoever.

You can use photographic techniques to reproduce artwork and get completely different results.

I picked this up recently. It's battery operated but it's looks like its based on a german prototype and is nicely detailed. With some modification - especially the chimney - it might bare a passing resemblance to and Irish narrow gauge loco. Its G gauge.

No tank engines carried snails, and all cie narrow gauge engines were tank engines.

 

Until about 1949 onwards, locos continued the GSR practice of cast numberplates painted over grey like the rest of the loco. Sometimes the numerals were picked out in cream or pale yellow, sometimes not at all. All narrow gauge locos under the GSR and CIE were all over grey, chimney, smokebox, cab, motion and wheels included. None got the black which a few 5ft 3 locos got very late in the day.

 

So, it's plain grey for everything!

 

After 1949, many locos had their numberplates removed and large painted pale yellow numerals placed on tank sides instead.

 

Buffer beams were technically red, but many were in practice so weathered, faded and dirty that they were indistinguishable from the grey livery!

Cheers for that. My can of grey primer will do the job so!

Andy is, of course right!

 

I have the colour slide collection of the late Lance King here - I'm digitising it for the IRRS.

 

There are photos of half a dozen different engines on the C&L - Tralee and Blackrock included.

 

NO Snails - usually they carried their number in pretty big numerals on the tank side.

 

I haven't scanned the West Clare yet, but will report when I get that far!

Cheers for that. I might do one with a snail anyway. I always fancied the wild west look of the ones fitted with cow catchers.

Mk3's arrived, I ordered the wrong type - the ye olde hornby ones which are the wrong length and the windows don't pop out. Grrrr.

My mistake. Will have another go.

Mega work. Bravo.

In Volume 1 of Tom Ferris' 'Irish Railways in Colour', there's a photo of 6T with a Flying Snail on its buffer beam while in charge of one of the last services on the C&L. However, it looks like it might have been applied with chalk, so not sure how official it was. Can't think of any apart from that...

Cheers for that. I actually have that book somewhere so I'll have a route.

Susu-motor fitted and Mark 3's have arrived. Will post some good quality pics.

Hi,

Forgive if this has been covered before.

Did any of the narrow gauge loco's that wound up being operated by CIE ever bare the snail? What was the colour scheme?

I know some the coaches did.

Cheers

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