Past-Avenue

082 with the HOBS on Past-Avenue 

Thanks Geoff Your more than welcome 

Here are a few pictures off progress to date ,sorry Ive no earlier pictures off the layout

Enda

I have asked for it to be changed but they're to busy working on more important projects 

Thanks. It was never planned to be moved out of the spair bedroom let alone bring  it to a show up till a few months ago Gerry Byrne got around me to bring it to Wexford. I only started into the hobby about 4 years ago and I've tried to make as much as possible myself, buildings, scenery etc. There not nearly as nice as the bought ones but that's where I get most of my enjoyment from 

Past - Avenue

Past – Avenue is not based on any particular location. As we both have had different backgrounds and things that are special to us individually and together we decided to base it on our lives instead of a place.  I have a wide variety of locomotives and as this layout is not based on any time I can run them all on this layout with minimal changes.

We have included childhood memories of family businesses, things we like to do, our lifestyle and hobbies from past and up to the present day.

To incorporate everything on one layout we have included the family businesses which were farming and the creamery and a car garage (coming soon) where we both would have individually worked growing up.

We love to travel and have a camper van which we bring around Ireland on many trips throughout the year so we wanted to include a campsite on the layout.

All the shops have some personal meaning to us including some family names and our current business.

One of our main hobbies is motorsport which is included showing the race track but we also do an off road motorsport called mudplugging – Sporting trials which we will get around to showing in one of the fields before the next show.

As a child I had a train set and a few years ago I got it out of my mother’s attic and here we are today. We have loved the model making, and we have made everything from scratch as much as possible, learning from books and you tube videos and talking to other model makers and have thoroughly enjoyed the experience in our spare time.

Enda and Siobhan

Looks great Eamonn well done 

Wow thats a work off art a masterpiece

Thats looking great and coming together very nicely 

Looking great and nice attention to detail 

Great work lads and Ladys roll on Easter

Lovely detailed work its a credit to you 

Hi Paddy

This is what the wagons started as

Enda

Hi Paddy 

Here are some hornby wagons i got ant just resprayed them and added decals, just need to weather them when i get brave enough

Enda

Great photos and happy new year Noel

Happy new year to all at IRM and its looking to be a great 2019 for Irish modelers

Enda 

071 and 073 on tara duties on  the stunning Ballybeg layout

Thanks for the card lads it was a nice thought and Happy xmas to you all in IRM and all on the site ,look forward to meeting more new people and getting some nice goodies that will be coming out next year 

Enda

They look great, lovely finish on them Robert 

Looking forward to it and spending the day with the WMRC

No head light ?

Lovely scene and great attention to detail as always

Hi is there many on here going on saturday?

I'm also heading and really looking forward to it 

It was a very enjoyable day and well worth a visit