Colin R

Do you mean this one? http://silverfoxmodels.co.uk/ir-ie-bullied-heating-van/ or you can contact them here http://silverfoxmodels.co.uk/ Hope this helps Colin Rainsbury

Try the IPRS book shop they sometimes have the GSR Loco book in stock, I got all three from them (GNRI the NCC and the GSR book). Colin R

If you can get hold of a copy, it has to be Miniature Locomotive Construction by John H Ahern isbn 085344 075 1 well worth ever penny or Euro as it would be today Colin Rainsbury

Please excuse the question, but just how big would you need a building to be to do a proper job? To display and run an O gauge layout. Regards Colin R

Hi guys Just come across this something for the living room this time eBay No eBay item number: 153885379023 Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing. ex GNRi lamp Colin R

If you are going to use a brass boiler don't forget to get as much weight all around the loco and that includes the rear end as wel. also if you can get a new motor that will also take a flywheel all the better. Good luck with the project. Colin Rainsbury

Well Done Patrick, yet something else to add to the layout at some point, great looking buildings and a great track layout in the mill itself. Colin Rainsbury

looking good

That looks better Phil

Hi Midland That looks like an old Triand Hornby coach from the 1970's is that correct? Colin

Hi Midland, Yes that helps, I recall seeing someone (on here?) had converted an LNER Tank loco into something Irish looking. Colin

Well as most of you will have a copy of this book I was wondering if there is an update. With the introduction of new Irish railway kits or British outline locos, I was wondering whicht ones from either Bachmann or Hornby have been used in the basis of an Irish prototype which did not appear in the oringinal book. I know the book was published back in 2004 so would anyone like to take the lead on this and show us what you have done? If you already have done something may be you could provide a link to your handy work in you had already put it up on here or else where. Regards Colin Rainsbury

I will give credit to OO Works for doing these models, but one thing which bugs me, when I enquired about UG and asked if I was able to fit a 21mm gauge chassis under it, they said it was not possible and I would need to rebuild the whole thing, which to me would be a waste of my money, so I did not buy one or a J15 as I have two form SSM still to build. I now have five or six 21mm gauge locos to build at some point, so unless new models have that added space then as they say I am out of buying one. Colin R

Hi David yes it is 12mm gauge but for now I plan to use Peco track on this section (since I have been given a fair bit). This is more of a test bed than a layout for now, however, who knows what will happen in a couple of year’s time. I really need somewhere to test and run all these kits I have. It may not be pretty but it will be the first layout I have build in years. I won’t be the first modeller to start a project and not finish it, but I have high hopes for this one. Colin

I am sure they can be done Colin

That would be my next question.

Wow that is great thank you, pity you don't have the Heritage groups that could make use of them if they every get sold.

Hi guys this is the start of a new mini 00n3 layout, the plan is more of a suck it and see, it has been a long time since I built a model railway and there are so many new products out there to try, so here goes. The 1st photo is of the Cork and Muskerry and this will set the overal tone of this layout. The 2nd photo is the proposed plan for the new layout, nothing to fancy, but I hope it will have enough interest to allow me to play at trains now and then. Colin

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It does not help matters when one department at work tells you one thing and another tells you something else, well I am self isolating just to be shore. Colin

Nice one Noel I am waiting to see what my boss at work (not the one at home) has to say if I should go back to work next week, as I have Type 2 Diabetes (all Diabetics in the UK are being lumped into one box fits all) I am told to self isolate for 12 weeks (I will go stir craze if I have to stay at home that long, if I didn’t have my modelling to get on with). But at the moment it appears to be very much a suck it and see approach to this virus, no one know what is going to happen. Lets just hope we are all here in six months time to carry on this discussion. Colin R

I have just read on wikipeadia that white lead based paints (it is the basis of all paints up to the 1950's)i where considerd to be dangerous by 1912, so why did Inchicore continue to use white lead based grey paint? I understand that at the time no one really took the problems seriously so anyone who was painting the locos could have had a shorter working life. As for adding pigments Black was expensive at the time, the second cheapest colour was Blue, so I wonder did Inchicore ever experiment with a blue coloured steam loco? Colin R

Thanks for the explanation John. Well I now have a reason for using all that Tamiya grey paint, I have six different pots ranging from a dark to a light grey:- XF-20, XF-22, XF-24, XF-25, XF-53 and XF-66 I think they where done for the old Japanese WW2 ship models, the great thing is as they are all different, so I can paint a wagon in one colour and a second wagon in a different shade and it is all ok. Having seen some colour photos of some of the Donegal vans, they vary in shades as well, so if done on a subtle basis, with the except of you guys, no one else is going to know if it is right or wrong. Colin

Yes I agree John some heritage railways do get it wrong, while on the other hand some railways try to hard to get it right. I recall the horror that was shown to the guys at Lakeside years ago when one of the Fairburn tanks appeared in Caledonian Blue and the other in LNWR Blackberry Black. (Not done sir, not done) I happen to like it, after all they where not owned by BR at the time and as you say, if the owner wants to paint his steam locos in his colours who are we to argue, Many heritage narrow gauge steam locos do not carry the livery they worked in, but it is at the whim of the owner what colours it has. I don't understand why Irish locos where painted grey, unless it was a case of cheapness in the paint, or was the first one a mistake and they decided to carry on with that colour? Colin

Yes just a bit, I also have a copy of David Lloyd Jones book on the Manx Peacocks, which has a lot of information about them as well. But when it comes to true enthusiasm of the IOM, I take my hat off to my mate Robin Winter who has modelled various bits in his time and also produced a couple of books as well. Somewhere in the back of the workshop there are three IOM loco kits which he built but he was not happy with, so they have ended up with me. I think I have enough bits now to produce all sixteen steam locos, so that is my long term goal, I think there where 4 greens and 2 reds to deal with plus the MNR livery. Getting back to the Irish link I also hope to have enough bits to make up both Ballymena locos as well. Colin