popeye

This seems to be the case, after a long illness.

Sorry to hear this, RIP John.

A nice machine. 

Rather you than me, That's a lot of work.

Have a rest, put your feet up and have a wee cup of tea.  

They are a really nice set and go well with the Oxford Garda vehicles.

If Labour win the next election it might get reversed.

Looking good, once it gets the primer it gives it a very different look.

This must be killing trade between Ireland & England. Daft.

You could contact the shop before you purchase and find out about the VAT charge.

There's a lot of fluff on 079.

Nice Ballast wagons.

If you can fit a false floor about half way up then add the ballast, so you

don't need to fill the whole wagon.

32 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

Amazing stuff, @popeye!

Great to see some containers in there, specially Triton's.

How did you do the lettering on the cement bags?

I knew you would like the containers 

lettering on the bags was done with a very sharp pencil.

I need my eyes checked now. 

Some more smaller items I have been working on lately.

Grey fuel tank Goodwood Scenics.

green bunded tank, hand made.

REB light grey boxes, Wills Kits.

White Goods 3d printed by Secret Anorak.

stillage cages by 3d printing corner.

White Generators by Zeroex15.

Bagged cement on pallets by 3d-pluss.

Containers are C-rail painted by me with Triton transfers added.

The signal cabin is beautiful and the plough van is coming on well. 

 Model shop Belfast is on there but closed years ago.

There are a few on eBay at the moment.

Just received an email from Hattons informing me the these coaches have been cancelled from production.

I don't know why or if they have been postponed.

23rd & 24th March 2024.

Nice models and I can't wait to see the paintwork.

Did these coaches not have side steps?

5 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said:

 

He has 40' CMA-CGM highcubes listed:

https://shop.c-rail-intermodal.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=152&search=cma

Yes, sorry, I have 1 or 2, must be thinking of something else.

I have so many I forget what I have.

It would be nice to get some 40ft MSC in the cream colour and 40ft CMA CGM. Please, Arran.

Lovely scenes there 

Great fight scene, that's a rough pub.

I have been looking around for some Police figures, can I ask where you got yours please?

1 hour ago, ttc0169 said:

The new Kirow crane 901 is seen here undergoing testing on Tara junction hauled by locomotive 079 

 

Very good, your very up to date. Where did you get the crane? And does the jib go up and extend?

3 hours ago, David Holman said:

That's not a bad idea. Ian Rathbone's book on painting and lining suggests something similar to remove bits of over painting or small errors with a bow pen. Wait until the paint is nearly dry and then use a fine brush, dipped in thinners on the area concerned. The paint comes away like magic. Wipe the brush on tissue and repeat until the area is cleared.

 Worth a try?

I do it like that all the time, it's great for tidying edges and mistakes.

Sometimes a little bit of thinners on a brush will wipe them off, just keep away from the rivets.

Loco looks great, good job. 

Lots of Provincial wagons on eBay but not cheap 

We need someone to go to Dapol HQ find the Boss and squeeze his nuts until he says ok ok. 

On 19/5/2023 at 2:42 PM, DJ Dangerous said:

 

Dapol emailed me and said that there is no way they'll be going back to the old print quality. It is too time consuming and not cost effective. Much as it's sad to hear, you have to respect their honesty and openness.

You hear that, @Arran??? We need you to duplicate Dapol's range with non-fuzzy print right now!

The 45' CobelFrets and 40' Rainbow Maersks will do for starters, please.

Can't believe Dapol would stick with a poor quality print.

I would think twice about buying their containers but I have most of the ones I need, about 150 and

there are more on the way from Arran.