GSR 800

Nice clean work

Thanks Bren.

Hood has just come from painting

Hood, at full speed..

simply, during the so called boom the government of the day

threw money at ir, had it been post 2009 we would still have the

lovely mark 3,s?

Careful now

Hello to everyone, I hope ye had a good Christmas and a happy new year.

Hood is currently going through her rebuild. A Warpite had to be sacrificed, which is unfortunate, as she is such a lovely ship, anyway here is Hoods current status

I believe the venerable IPads camera is on its last legs..

Incredible work Kieran

In particular this pic caught my imagination, the angle, the dark clouds...moody

The only thing I would think - and as you'll know it's in a constructive way - a train shed wouldn't be something normally associated with an Irish narrow gauge line, although Ennis originally had one. Similarly, I wonder if the three storey building makes it look a little claustrophobic? A little too "town" or "industrial", perhaps?

 

I like the Wantage thing above, nonetheless. And the GNR style at Fintona is another very obvious choice for consideration. In fact, your plan has more than a touch of the real Fintona about it.

 

(Any 3ft gauge horses out there?)

Didn't Dingle have a train shed?

Happy Christmas everyone:D

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AWESOME!!!

Also, Liam Neeson..

Weshty and IrishThump, how do yiz KNOW? ;-)

Watching to much Nothing To Declare methinks...

Rather more Donegal than Clogher, I think, Harry. That said, having used the Peco N gauge model, it would not be too difficult to add cosmetic sides to look like loco frames, there is plenty of room under the deck. Guess the unloved Blessingbourne would be favourite!

It's down to you, but I think it would be a nice little addition to a layout.

And with your skill, it would be done to an excellent standard too....

Is that a gauntlet being thrown I see? At half scale, will be 'only' around 10 metres long, with 1 metre diameter drivers, sitting on 2'7.5" track...

Local timber merchants may already be considering exotic foreign holidays!

Aye, the challenge has been put forth....should it be accepted, now that is the real question...

All joking aside, if I could get some decent drawings of Maeve, I'd give it bash.

Have you seen these Bren?

From resources..

Water tank is right, Paul. It may well block the view and have already wired an isolating section there to park a loco. Am thinking I may have to move the tank slightly and make it smaller, perhaps on a pilevof sleepers, Colonel Stephens style.

Looks excellent so far David.

I suppose I couldn't change your mind about using old loco frames for the turntable...

Doesn't really matter though, considering how awesome the layout will be when finished.

By the locomotive

Methinks you may have gotten inspiration to build this while constructing the MF...

I....(collapses,such as the awesomeness of this project)

On that scale, would I be right in thinking that 3D printing might be a way forward?

Certainly for the GM diesels..

steamwise a farish royal scot could be modified to look like an 800

All that's left is the clean up and painting..both will take a long time

Here are some close ups of the boat deck.

View from Bow..

And stern.

Thanks for looking

Almost finished!

It seems the curse of the upside down photos continue...

My most recent work that has been done on the workbench was this commission which involved me having to re-letter/re-number, add details along with lamps, and figures to three Bachmann engines. I thoroughly enjoyed this because they are all freelance locomotives which allowed me to get creative and add my own touches to them.

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Because I had other projects on the go I thought I would be sensible to keep all of the screws somewhere safe and prevent them getting mixed up with other bits and bobs. So I did this.

 

Here are the finished locomotives and I hope the owner is as pleased with them as I am.

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Nelson

Fantastic stuff Nelson..the NCC is starting to grow on me..

In

And I like your sheet plan, simple but genius.

Finally, this morning, the Hood arrived after a LONG wait

It was worth it though..

Multiple different sprues..

Firstly, she is BIG .I am building her in the waterline version, but here she is full hull, for comparison to Dreadnought..you get what I mean..

And then the building frenzy began..not a bad days work methinks

Thanks for looking

More weight?

That's what I was thinking too..

I wonder if Faulhaber or Maxon motors have been considered? They're compact, powerful and smooth. Here's a Maxon in an old Lima class 31 chassis I have:

 

http://www.maxonmotor.com/maxon/view/catalog/

Let me know when you start hallucinating.

After the third rivet, it all started getting a bit blurry....I think I need to lie down for a while..

Everything going sideways..

Dunno if this will show up, but here goes:

 

 

This is a blown-up crop of the original photo, the copyright of which belongs to SLS.

 

There's also six rivets on the door itself, in a hexagon formation.

Ahh..my eyes!

35 or 36 by my count...(starts counting again)