Patrick Davey Posted Monday at 19:11 Posted Monday at 19:11 Looking forward to seeing the branch set making the full trip down to the terminus! 1 Quote
derek Posted Monday at 19:53 Posted Monday at 19:53 great to see the "second section" finally raised up. Looking forward to developments 1 Quote
jhb171achill Posted Thursday at 19:36 Author Posted Thursday at 19:36 (edited) This evening a PW inspection has taken place, and a tin car has visited Dugort Harbour where it will remain at the disposal of the south-western division PW engineer until 1973. Its home will be here or in the spare loco siding at Castletown. We’ll say nothing about the time when the senior porter in charge, his uncle out the Tully Road, and yer man who likes the Beatles and lives next to the Volkswagen dealer in town, took it for a spin out to Caltragh and back at 4 a.m. after a lock-in in McLaughlins, in order to leave the O’Shea girls back to the gatehouse…. My first foray into brass and soldering. Thanks to Des for the kit (SSM) and Michael for his tuition and long-suffering patience with a rank amateur. Edited Thursday at 19:36 by jhb171achill 14 Quote
Galteemore Posted Thursday at 19:51 Posted Thursday at 19:51 Great stuff JB. Well done indeed. Brass 6w coach next. And I bet it’s felt really satisfying to see something you’ve made yourself ! 1 Quote
Mol_PMB Posted Thursday at 19:59 Posted Thursday at 19:59 Super - that really looks the part! 1 Quote
jhb171achill Posted Thursday at 20:36 Author Posted Thursday at 20:36 38 minutes ago, Galteemore said: Great stuff JB. Well done indeed. Brass 6w coach next. And I bet it’s felt really satisfying to see something you’ve made yourself ! 30 minutes ago, Mol_PMB said: Super - that really looks the part! As a first attempt, I'm happy ernough. I was inveigled into trying this out by Michael Doolan, a Dublin-based member of the gauge 0 Guild, who some here will know. So I've been learning the ropes - or trying to. I saw a piucture online somewhere of a small Wickham car used in some other country - might have been in South America, I forget, which had black "wasp" stripes on each end, which i though looked well. But I went instead for a somewhat work-worn plain CIE-style "factory finish". The window wipers were super-fiddly, and I made a hames of those, but next time hopefully better. Next thing I'm attempting is a small four-wheeled passenger luggage van, similar to some early GSWR ones, which is on offer from Roxey. It's close enough to look Irish. I remember seeing the four Wickhams like the one above all over the system in the 1970s, usually stuffed away up a weedy siding somewhere.......... I will alternate parking this one between Dugort loco siding as shown, and Castletown West loco yard or cattle bank. 3 Quote
jhb171achill Posted Thursday at 20:54 Author Posted Thursday at 20:54 Should have added - Mousa Models of Scotland, which I believe is partly defunct due to retirement of proprietor, used to offer a nice brass kit of a six-wheeled first class family saloon. The coach is North British Railway in origin, but like the Hattons Genesis stuff it is sufficiently GSWR-esque to look at home in a fictitious West Kerry setting, downgraded to a second class coach by the late 1950s. Nice looking yoke, though it has to be ordered well in advance. It is definitely WAAY out of my league now and for some time to come, but I'd be keen to eventually see what I could do with that. 1 Quote
Galteemore Posted Thursday at 21:50 Posted Thursday at 21:50 (edited) Nonsense JB. You’ll be building a fleet of D16s in no time at all. That yellow yoke seems square and free of creases. That’s a basic skill well mastered already. But this does bring home a lesson. If you see a brass kit you like - and can afford it - buy it. The supply line is generally one person deep and all it can take is a bad winter or a car collision and your supplier is out of the picture - possibly permanently. It’s also a fair argument for keeping your modelling focus reasonably narrow - limits the amount of temptation! Edited Thursday at 22:25 by Galteemore 1 1 1 Quote
Tullygrainey Posted Thursday at 22:21 Posted Thursday at 22:21 1 hour ago, jhb171achill said: As a first attempt, I'm happy ernough. I was inveigled into trying this out by Michael Doolan, a Dublin-based member of the gauge 0 Guild, who some here will know. So I've been learning the ropes - or trying to. I saw a piucture online somewhere of a small Wickham car used in some other country - might have been in South America, I forget, which had black "wasp" stripes on each end, which i though looked well. But I went instead for a somewhat work-worn plain CIE-style "factory finish". The window wipers were super-fiddly, and I made a hames of those, but next time hopefully better. Next thing I'm attempting is a small four-wheeled passenger luggage van, similar to some early GSWR ones, which is on offer from Roxey. It's close enough to look Irish. I remember seeing the four Wickhams like the one above all over the system in the 1970s, usually stuffed away up a weedy siding somewhere.......... I will alternate parking this one between Dugort loco siding as shown, and Castletown West loco yard or cattle bank. Excellent! Great start JB. There's one thing you should know though. About this brass kit building malarkey. It's addictive 2 1 Quote
David Holman Posted Thursday at 22:43 Posted Thursday at 22:43 A very decent first step and one to be proud of. Everything else is an extension of this - including moving to 7mm scale/36.75mm gauge. 1 3 Quote
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