Proposed manual of accurate CIE livery details

[jhb171achill]

Folks, as a result of a couple of expressions of interest, I cast the net wider; is anyone interested in some sort of definitive reference for all known CIE liveries?

 

If so, I would be happy to put this all together, but I'd need the assistance of someone who can help with outline drawings of all sorts of locomotives, carriages and wagons. Any takers?

 

Perhaps you might PM me?

[Kirley]

Delighted with your suggestion. It's a daunting but very worthwhile project especially when you consider one carriage could have five different livery's or more in its lifetime.

Could I suggest you take a loco, coach or wagon in turn and asked for what you need. It strikes me as the makings for a great reference book.

[jhb171achill]

As an actual book, Kirley, I doubt if it would be commercially viable, but if it was, all the better. I would initially plan to just post it all in a section here.

 

If someone could show me a side elevation of, say, various laminates, that might be a start. I would hope to find a way of "colouring it in" for display here.

[murrayec]

Hi JHB

 

You could use the stuff you have, the sample attached is done in Photoshop using layers to overlay the colours and add text references.

 

It's not overly complex to do, once you work out the first few you'd be flying....

 

 

Eoin

[Noel]

Folks, as a result of a couple of expressions of interest, I cast the net wider; is anyone interested in some sort of definitive reference for all known CIE liveries?

 

If so, I would be happy to put this all together, but I'd need the assistance of someone who can help with outline drawings of all sorts of locomotives, carriages and wagons. Any takers?

 

Perhaps you might PM me?

 

Sounds a good idea JB. For hardcopy, it's now very inexpensive as you just upload book content to a web site such as "Blurb" and then folks can buy inexpensive copies of it direct from there. Alternative is a PDF, you just create a word document, and thne "Save As PDF" format file which can be uploaded to this or other web sites.

 

PS: But I'm not standing on my head to read it when published! Kidd'n

[jhb171achill]

Brilliant, folks, thanks for your suggestions, that's very useful. I'll mull over it and see what I can do.

 

I'll prepare it standing on my head so that the illustrations are the right way up!

[Glenderg]

I'll happily sort drawings JB. I have most of them redrawn and can help out with slides and so on. R.

[Weshty]

I'll happily sort drawings JB. I have most of them redrawn and can help out with slides and so on. R.

 

I thought you'd be off the grid at this stage? Enjoy some Chrimbo long walks now

[jhb171achill]

Brilliant, Glenderg. PM me your email address and I'll ping you in a few days with whatever ideas I put together.

[Glenderg]

I thought you'd be off the grid at this stage? Enjoy some Chrimbo long walks now

 

 

Walking to the fridge is as far as I'll manage!

 

Too much real work to do, under a bit of pressure with a few projects so no rest for me :-P

[Junctionmad]

It would be a great idea to have such a reference. Would you include photos

[jhb171achill]

I might do, J'mad. It would take somewhat lionger to get photos of all variations, but we'll see. Initially, drawings.

 

Virtually all liveries were applied to more than one type of vehicle, so a decsription of the livery, rather than all the vehicles, would be a start.