Colin R

I have been talking to Nev about this and he is also willing to produce one off kits for people if they have the etches ready to go, I don't know just how far he has got but he was looking to produce a new Cavan and Leitrim 4 wheel van body in resin, the trouble is the last time I looked at this I think there was a possible 70 odd variations on a theme which would make every C&L van unique if you were to model them. Just to give you guys a taste here are just some of the basic's Two types of body Low roof or High roof Three basic doors : paneled, half paneled and no panels. Vents of 6, 3, 1 or no vents at all on the sides left and right hand sides of each door could also be different Vents 6, 3, 1 or none on the ends but each end could be different Finally there where at least three different wheel bases due to rebuilding over time One other major item to recall was that the cattle vans, they had half opening doors that the bottom half would form the ramp into the van so again this was different to either the normal low or high vans, but it was also possible that either the high or low roof vans could have also been rebuilt for cattle traffic at some point as well. So you can see why it would be difficult to produce just one C&L van kit with the amount of knowledge that is known about these vans. I would suggest that by the later life of the railway I doubt if two vans were turned out the same from the works after a rebuild.

Worsley works do a 4-8-4T in 4mm but could blow it up to 7mm if you wish The big problem we now face is that with 3D printing many of the locos we would have build from brass are becoming available as a 3D print, so far no one has given a lifetime of these prints, but some people have said that after about five years or so the prints start to bend and lose their shape, so may be this is not the way forward. It a bit like trying to force everyone over to electric cars, what an environmental disaster waiting to happen that it. Colin Rainsbury

Hi Phil. Thanks for the up date about the etches, regarding instructions Worsley Works don't have any, as it just make things more interesting, good luck with the model. Colin

Hi Guys i think we may be going into the black hole of OOn3 modelling, I do know of a 3D print of 4T by Tom Bell, but again I am not sure what is happening with that. As for a chassis etch I was not aware of one. So I was wondering if the loco etch and the chassis etch are something that Phil has got done himself, I am not suggesting for one moment that he turns it into a commerical exercise, but that said if you can get say 10 others to buy them from you, you can often get a set done for yourself for free. I can think of four people not on this list that might be interested.

Hi Phil are those etches available to purchase by other modellers? Colin Rainsbury

Thanks Fran send him our best regards and hope he is feeling better soon Colin

Hi Guys is there any up date to this project?

Hi Chris thanks for that, just recently someone else was looking for height data and was given this:- https://en-gb.topographic-map.com/map-kb57/England/?center=51.22612%2C-3.83904&zoom=16&popup=51.22828%2C-3.83318 I have used it and foundit to be very useful I have tried on Derry and so far it looks good. Thanks once again for your help in this matter. Colin R

All I can say is 'Nurse the screens' what a fantasic sight and just so good, I would suggest one thing folks, you need to have two locos on site, so if one fails you have a second as a back up, you don't want to be open to the public for the one and only loco to have failed. But if you don't mind where the second one comes from I did hear that the Sri Lankan Railways had a couple of 5ft 6in gauge deisel locos for sale.

There are a number of track systems out there, but sadly they are all mainly HOm if you want Irish 3ft the closes is Peco HOm but then you need to take knif to the sleepers and spred them out a bit to 10 mm centres which is about 2ft 6in centre to centre which I think is about average on the prototype some where about 3ft centre to centre. Peco or Dundas Models still do 00n3 wagon kits and Branchlines still do their isle of man and Dingle loco kits, the biggest problem is find a RTR chassie for any of the steam locos, there are power bogies that can be used under freelanced Deisels and Bemo still do it HOm rolling stock. The biggest supplier by far for etched parts is Worsley Works. Hope this helps Colin

Oh goodie, a price war Weeeee! Seriously for a moment, I will wait and see what Leslie comes up with

Sorry but I kept forgetting this is 2mm scale wonderful job.

Even a yurt isn't that expensive, that said the seller must be living up my road as I am getting bombarded with requests to sell my house from so called estate agents , I don't mind since I have heavy metal music from one side and bhangra music on the other

If you don't mind doing a bit of repainting and lettering most of the Dapol wagons can be purchase here https://www.dapol.co.uk/collections/wagons

Wow really? https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p3519243.m570.l1313&_nkw=dapol+Irish&_sacat=0

or how about these

I do love a chime whistle

What can possible go wrong then

Hi John do you of anyone producing an etched Walschaert's valve gear suitable for the 500 class? Colin

I was thinking that myself, I wonder how easy it would be to build as a model.

I have known Mick man and boy which is more years than I care to remember, but if you think this is good, let me tell you he has also built four Backwoods Miniatures Lynton and Barnstaple 2-6-2T's and the Baldwin 2-4-2T in 009 and they run just as sweet. The last time I spoke to him he had just acquired a set of Worsley Works Donegal class 5 etches in 3mm scale and some code 40 rail as an experiment, but I have to admit that was in 2019 just before Covid took hold.

what if any 141 have been preserved to date?

Just over 8ft long. Oh well another thing to put on the Lottery win wall of must haves.

Really! It looks bigger than that. I guess that if I wanted one it would need to be done in 4mm scale. But just out of interest do you have an approximate size length wise in 4mm? Thanks

Dire I ask about the Chetwynd viaduct kit and which parts of the body do I need to get removed to pay for it .