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Here are a few more without the local scenery.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]14697A few weeks ago our friend and neighbor Bruce announced that his friend Bob had a 3D printer and would help producing Bulleid open wagons. My previous method produced good results but was way too time consuming and lacked consistency and since I wanted 25 to 30 wagons for the layout which is set in October at the start of the beet season a better way of producing them was needed. The photo shows the results so far. The clipboard for paper work is on the wrong side and will be corrected.

I got one from a family friend who worked for CIE in Tralee and later Cork in the mid seventies. Wish I still had it. Thanks for the memory.

Beautiful work as always Nelson. I'm just hoping you will build a CIE H van and show us how its done.

Being unable to post a picture in reply to Mayners Fenit layout plan blog on the site I have opened a new thread to show the track layout on Fenit pier as I remember it. Several plans have been published in recent years in the IRRS journal and Alan O' Rourke's "North Kerry Line" but all show the track arrangement prior to rebuilding in the 1950's. The siding between the warehouses was used to park the steam cranes. All the track was inset on the pier except the curved tracks around the back of the warehouse which was regular ballasted track.

Cork Waterford Bell liner passing through Glen More.

I havn't done anything on the layout in weeks but today a portion of the platform at Glen More which had warped was repaired and afterwards a few trains were run and a few photos taken.

Three trains were run in each direction, a passenger, goods, and Bell liner.

All the photos in the previous post were taken by my neighoour Bruce, one showing me adding wagons to the goods train to stage for the photos. It gives a good impression of how the layout appears in person.

October 1969 on the south waterford line.

Are you sure they aren't pressfix if not then try leaving them in the water for a while longer.

Thanks Nelson, they are not presfix. The transfers are tan CIE broken wheels with "CIE" in the center in white. If left in water long enough the tan print will fall off. I have some white broken wheels which are even older and stored in the same place and they work fine.

I have some Rail Tech decals which are two years old and now wont seperate from the backing sheet when dipped in water. They were stored in a plastic pouch in a drawer and were not in any envoirment with extremes of heat or humidity. I have tried using warm water but that wont work either. Any ideas?

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The caption says the 60's but the presence of 186 would indicate June 1972 the occasion of the RPSI North Kerry railtour.

Blue insulation foam can make a great temporary backdrop for photos. Here a piece was propped up on a step stool in the aisle hiding the fiddle yard behind it.

A50 on a goods train at Keilys Cross.

Others have said it before, that layout just looks so 'Irish'. The first shot looking back through the station is great, what did you use to surface the platform?

I used a thick high grade card I found at a craft store. A bit expensive, $7 for a 24' by 30" sheet but is very strong and stable. It is available in a variety of colors including black which was used for the platforms in the photo. It has a very slight texture and to my eye looks like relatively new tarmac. I also used it for roads but painted it grey to represent an older surface.

Nothing really new here except the cattle wagon on the Waterford goods at Glen More. Two more are in the works. I am feeling a little sad that the scenery is essentially complete although there is much detailing and improvement which can be done. This is the first time I tackled scenery on a layout and it proved to be very enjoyable.

I love it. Any chance of a photo of the plasticard chassis. Did you manage to keep the flywheels?

I have been trying to adapt the Dapol cattle wagon kit to look more Irish.

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Anyone like T Rex? Just got "The Slider" album on CD and it currently lives on our player.

Cat litter???? I wasn't expecting that!! Thanks for the info Patrick, some helpful tips there.any chance of a close up of the stone wall just to see the effect?

Here you go. Sorry about the picture quality, I'm using a mobile phone camera which hasn't enough resolution for such close up shots. The effect is far better in person especially at normal viewing distances.

You'll haft to upgrade your layout to a noughty's 'Celtic Tiger' era & stick housing estates & appartments on all those greens!!!!!!

That would require considerable investment in rolling stock and infrastructure. I suppose I could just put it on the credit card........

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Thanks for the nice comments and information on crossing keepers cottages. In the meantime here is

a short video tour following the Waterford Cork Bell liner showing the scenery progress to date.

Just a short addition to my previous post, before applying ground cover the scenery is painted with a tan colored paint. The color was chosen to match the soil in the area based on photos showing beet harvesting I found online.

The layout is coming along fab! Where did you get the stone walls?? What material did you use to make the ditches/embankments?? Im looking to do something similar on my own one.

The base board is built from half inch insulation foam board glued to a frame made from one by two inch pine with bracing about every foot. (sorry about the imperial measurements but that's what is still used here) This is supported around the walls on inexpensive shelf brackets screwed into the wood framing. The result is strong and lightweight. During construction realizing that having the trackbed elevated even half an inch above the surrounding scenery in many areas would greatly add to the realism of the layout sections of foam were cut out, dropped a half inch into the framing and secured with hot glue taking care to reinforce the foam under the track. If I were to do it again I would use two layers of foam making the job easier. The final contours are established using Woodland Scenics plaster gauze and Sculptamould.

The stone walls are made from cat litter mixed with white glue and formed on the layout on top of the ground cover. Use just enough glue to get the cat litter to bond and don't over mix it which will cause the granules to disintegrate. When it dries there is often some shrinkage which causes gaps which can be filled with more cat lit glue mix or covered with foliage. I also apply a little ground foam where the bottom of the wall and scenery meet to hide any gaps and give the impression of tall grass and weeds at the foot of the wall. Start by building a few sections on some scrap foam or cardboard to get a feel for it before trying it on the layout. For grass I use Woodland Scenics light green coarse foam and for hedges and bushes Light green clump foliage and olive green bushes.