PJR

I for one would be really interested in buying some models provided that could be bought on an Irish site and avoiding all that customs stuff. Any chance of that ever happening?

Hi Lads

Are IRM selling the little yellow lugs from the container liners. I'm cant keep up with my lost rate . Badly needed as spares 

Must be a thing with us train fellows and retirement at 55. I also retired  at that age and was involved in  Irish skills team some 45 years ago 

Do the Baby GMs have speaker built in

Excellent presentation really enjoyed it

Looks good Noel keep it coming

done

Yes must agree NIR, it was a very entertaining show with some fantastic photos . Well done to Jim.  

Definitely interested.

14 hours ago, patrick said:

Thanks Leslie, now that I'm back on my feet, literally, but will not be ready to return to work for a while yet I'm spending some time on the layout. Speaking of the beet wagons I am currently engaged in weathering a bunch of them. The method I use is first to paint them using a medium grey automotive spray primer. Allowing time for the paint to dry the model is then liberally sprayed all over with a mixture of very dilute black poster paint with a few drops of dish washing liquid. A soft brush is used to work the "grime" into the crevices. The model is then allowed to dry placed upside down so the grime mix won't pool in the interior leaving unrealistic water marks. The procedure is repeated if necessary until a pleasing effect is achieved. Excess grime can be removed with a soft brush and water. When dry the axlebox area gets a light brushing of the same black poster paint to represent oil. When dry the entire model recieves an overall drybrushing of white poster paint. The rust is a grease paint received from our neighbour Bruce who runs disaster preparedness exercises and uses it to simulate wounds! He suggested using it when  I asked him if he had any rust coloured chalk. A little goes a long way here and of course prototype photos should be consulted every step of the way. I will post some photos later today.

That weathering looks superb. well done

Lovely job

I also would love to see more photos please

Cant wait for our Irish steam , hints please

Great stuff, really taking shape and looking forward to seeing this layout develop.

Return to sender, as the song goes.

Thanks guys,

I have ordered Tamiya X-8 so Ill see how that goes

Hi Lads

I'm currently in the process of converting 2 autoballasters to IE type . Can anyone tell me the colour that I would need to spray them please  as I have tried to see if it was somewhere on this site but cant find any reference to it.

Either a RAL number or name, Thanks in advance.

Paddy

That's great news so hope the work out . Everything on hold with the Kadee conversions  for the time being so

Hope the new magnet close coupling that are to be used on the new Accurascale Mark 5 coaches  will be available  as an accessory and maybe even in different lengths?? What's the changes lads? Ill be first in with my order.

Loving the Mark 5 by the way, lights and all.

Its a superb piece of work ,well worth the money. I would highly recommend buying.

Happy Christmas and a Peaceful and safe New Year

Stunning workmanship

Enjoyed seeing this at Bray today. Much better in real life well done sir.

Any idea when the  567 sound decoder come back into stock in IRM or Marks            

12 hours ago, Noel said:

You can adjust brightness using CVs. MM should have an ESU tech sheet on this like they did for the 071 and 201 decoder projects

Any idea what cv to change (on both ends) and what number setting it should be for brighter light