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    Blue/Grey and NSE Mark 2B Decorated Samples Are Here

    in British Outline Modelling

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    3 hours ago, Warbonnet said:

    Hi Noel,

    The NIR variants of these Mark 2 coaches ran on CIE metals daily every day of their service careers, so perfectly part of the Irish scene and equally at home in our range. The Mark 2Bs also did not run in IR/IE liveries, so the only cross over possible was NIR. They also ran on railtours across the country, not to mention rugby match specials to Landsdowne Road, a direct service for the ferry at Dun Laoghaire and of course, multiple daily Enterprise services. They bring a lovely dash of colour to the orange and black scene. And also, after bringing out lots of CIE centric models, it was great to be able to serve fans of NIR with models for once, the first bespoke models for NIR ever. We have a large percentage of our customer base north of the border and they seem very happy to see these.  Also, with the sky high prices NIR liveried locomotives currently command, perhaps the demand is not as limited as you may believe? Those locos need something to go behind them too. 

    They also carry what is probably the best liveries that these coaches wore, but that's perhaps a biased personal opinion. :) 

    Further Irish outline coaches will be forthcoming in time too, but patience as always, is required.

    Cheers!

    Fran 

    Just announce those 80 Class DEMU’s!  You know it makes sense!😂😂

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    Ballyercall (New Irish Layout

    in Irish Model Layouts

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    1 hour ago, JohnMcGahern said:

    Love the tall grass on some of these photos.  How did you do it?  Is it static grass?

    Yes static grass. I’m sorry I can’t really give you details as my modelling gear is currently all packed up other than it was from the WWS grass range.  It’s available on eBay. 

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    088 Shunting - 21mm

    in General Chat

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    The only way I found to avoid problems with the kadee magnets was to hinge them and motorised them up and down as uncoupling required. 
    If you watch the attached video link from about 4 minutes and 5 seconds you will see what I mean. 

     

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    DC Kits - Are they still in business

    in General Chat

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    I have only ever dealt with Charlie at a few shows. Usually the stall is queued out and over a very short space of time answers endless questions.  On asking any questions you get swift, no bull answers, take it or leave it. His style maybe different but you can’t please all of the people all of the time. 
     

    Happy show customer.  Never tried a mail order transaction. 

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    Philip's Workbench

    in Workbench

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    All the best exciting times. 

    1 hour ago, murphaph said:

    Not modelling per se but my future layout home is finally getting cleared out. I've painted everything white. The floor will be tiled in something cheap and cheerful. Don't need Italian marble in here (we don't have Italian marble anywhere, just in case that's not clear lol)

    The layout will, as I mentioned previously, be of the multi deck shelf type. I believe a room this shape and size will lend itself well to this concept. I will use the room itself as the outer boundary of a "helix" (sometimes referred to as a nolix or around the room spiral) to allow trains move from staging (top and bottom shelves) to the (hopefully) 3 scenic shelves and back. It will function therefore as a very long point to point layout, with trains originating at either upper or lower staging, passing through each scenic shelf in turn before terminating off scene in the opposite staging area.

    The layout will attempt to depict a decent chunk of the Dublin to Cork mainline around Kildare.

    I'm fortunate that the room is in the basement part of the house and is heated (underfloor heating was specified to ensure no rads got in the way).

    I am most likely going to teach myself to weld and build the frame out of steel, with rigid insulation board as the subbase. So little or no timber will feature. I have seen this approach used on a couple of US layouts.

    I'm aiming for long sweeping runs of mainline with prototypically long trains, with one station per shelf so trains enter the scene, do their bit and leave. I like looking at trains running, more than shunting. I will have a bit of reversing to do at Kildare and some shunting at the Athy cement factory but not much. The room is 10' 2" wide and just about 30' long. I had considered a peninsula but realistically I don't think I have the width in 21mm to do that and I want some circulation space to remain anyway. I might put a small modelling bench in the centre of the room.

    Why paint the walls when they will not be visible at the end? I will someday have to try to find a lost spring or something in behind the backscene I'm sure, so I want everything in there as bright as possible, especially the staging areas.

    IMG_20211218_161520794.thumb.jpg.35231133c7d396627f3a0ab27ea01bad.jpg

    From the other end:IMG_20211218_161414941.thumb.jpg.bff6a22591dddd2dc4e72e0a62390e27.jpg

     

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    Ballyercall (New Irish Layout

    in Irish Model Layouts

    Posted

    The lads at IRM know my persistent requests for a NIR 80 Class!  There is a vast quantity of colour schemes. 

    Can I have 81 in Suburban Livery with "The Boys Brigade" nameplates!!! 

    Although the sound chip of the hunting tick over it had for years could be a problem and the sparks out of the exhaust as it departs on full thrash could also be challenging!!!

     

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