Kirley's Projects

[BosKonay]

They look surprisingly unlike card in the pockets! Lovely job!! Stunning rake!

[heirflick]

smashing work kirley:tumbsup:

[Kirley]

In my gather up of locomotives over the years I always meant to attach the accessories that came with a new model and to lightly weather it.

 

 

At last I got around to it and adapted the centre section of the layout to be a temporary paint shop allowing me sufficient room to stack the locomotives and lightly weather them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Glenderg]

Third photo in that batch. Good god!

[Riversuir226]

Nice collection Kirley, wheres the Mak though:(?

[BosKonay]

Third photo in that batch. Good god!

 

I agree! Had to double take!! Stunning!

[Dave]

Jeez Kieran, that's some collection. Very nice

[Kirley]

Nice collection Kirley, wheres the Mak though:(?

 

Thanks Guys. The MAK has not been converted to DCC so it's still with the other DC models in the old roof space layout.

[scahalane]

nice collection, a little bit of weathering and some natural daylight shots really make these babies sing!!

[heirflick]

.....lovely fleet!

[Kirley]

Have to keep doing something even if this glorious weather keeps you outside.

 

Very basic job painting Dapol Workman Figures. There's quite a difference after adding a bit of paint to these figures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now all I have to do is remove the plastic bases and drill holes in legs to accept a thin wire to hold the figure on the layout.

[Hunslet 102]

See you found the figures Kirley,nice paint job,it really brings them to life.

[UP6936]

Nice painting! What brand of paint do you use?

Also, do Dapol make modern image (ie high viz alround) style workers, as i am thinking of adding a little track gang to my layout?

[Flying Scotsman 4472]

Also, do Dapol make modern image (ie high viz alround) style workers, as i am thinking of adding a little track gang to my layout?

 

Best to buy the modern high viz Bachmann figures a bit pricey but they certainly are worth it.

[UP6936]

I think I will anthony, they certainly look the part

[Dave]

Nice work Kieran, the paint makes such a difference.

[Kirley]

Nice painting! What brand of paint do you use?

Also, do Dapol make modern image (ie high viz alround) style workers, as i am thinking of adding a little track gang to my layout?

 

Anthony is right about Modern Image, Bachmann are the ones to go for. However for an earlier era the Dapol are worth a go. The paints I used was what ever I gathered up over the years and it's a mixture of enamel and acrylics. I first gave them a coat of Halfords grey primer and then did a light wash of well thinned black. After drying period I applied the colours.

[enniscorthyman]

What a fab collection of locos,and nice weathering too.

[Train model]

All you need is the village people fantastic

[Kirley]

I’ve start work on making Ballast Wagons following Hidden-Agenda’s excellent Tutorial.

 

Gareth has provided a list of items needed, where to get them, diagrams with all the measurements in mm or .5 mm as well as photographs of the various steps.

 

 

I used the sharp edges of my gauge to mark of the measurements, it made things so easy, I set to the gauge to, in this case, 6 mm and you can mark the length of the styrene sheet.

 

 

The cutting out was the easy bit, now for sticking it together.

[Kirley]

Ballast Wagons -Assembling the Bodies.

 

As I suspected the cutting out was the easy bit. Assembling the bodies means getting each corner true to 90 degrees which for my clumsy fingers was not easy. The first body I did can be seen on the extreme right of the picture and will testify to how to get the angles wrong.

 

 

For the rest, when I was putting the four sides together, having bent the plastic card inwards, I used the floor as a template to work too and placed the body on top of it. That made it easier for me to get the angles right.

 

 

Now I'm at the filling/sanding stage which needs to be taken carefully and with patience - and again that will test me.

[islandbridgejct]

Those containers are very convincing, and I like the weathering a lot.

 

Your ballast wagons are very convincing too.

 

It looks as though you may have a motive power shortage though.

 

Is each NIR 111 actually a different length or is it just an optical effect? The sky blue version looks distinctly longer.

 

Alan

[Kirley]

Got the Ballast Wagons to this stage. Waiting until Gareth returns from his Hols to find out where to put all the fiddly bits.

 

 

 

[BosKonay]

They look fantastic!!

[Weshty]

Third photo in that batch. Good god!

 

Yup, seriously atmospheric, looks like the inchicore barrier line, but with GM's.

 

 

Great job on the pocket wagons, transfers and brass sides came out very well

 

 

But the cardboard Norfolk Line 45's are just the Dogz Nuts. Now formally on my "to get" list.

 

 

Oh and well done on the hoppers, I don't doubt a LOT of work there.

[Shinkansen]

Yup, Weshty said it best... I'd echo his comments. Excellent work Kirley. Plan to have a crack at some of the above mentioned projects in the near future. Thanks for the inspiration

Tom

[Kirley]

Don't forget your shovel if you want to go to work- found a Dapol kit of a JCB on the Web so I got it to replace the one that came with the Airfix kit (low loader & JCB) many many moons ago.

 

 

 

[heirflick]

bloody beautiful kirley:tumbsup:

[Mayner]

Lovely work, the old Airfix Lomac and JCB 3C were excellent models thankfully Dapol did a re-run. These wagons may have been used to deliver new equipment, there is footage of a down Burma Road goods complete with Lomac & Massey Ferguson digger shunting at Kiltimagh in one of the Markle Associates irish videos.

[Kirley]

there is footage of a down Burma Road goods complete with Lomac & Massey Ferguson digger shunting at Kiltimagh in one of the Markle Associates irish videos.

 

Thanks John, must look that up.

[Weshty]

Lovely work, the old Airfix Lomac and JCB 3C were excellent models thankfully Dapol did a re-run. These wagons may have been used to deliver new equipment, there is footage of a down Burma Road goods complete with Lomac & Massey Ferguson digger shunting at Kiltimagh in one of the Markle Associates irish videos.

 

The JCB and low loader were from the same original Airfix mould.

http://www.airfixrailways.co.uk/Lowmac.htm

 

But Dapol did the smart thing when they bought the moulds and sold the loader and the JCB seperately.

[Mayner]

Thanks John, must look that up.

Its a great clip in the days when railway men wore a uniform suit, the shunter stands out wearing his early 70s Saturday night disco dancing purple elephant flared suit as cuts wagons out of the train. Hopefully Dapol have a suitable figure.

[Weshty]

Its a great clip in the days when railway men wore a uniform suit, the shunter stands out wearing his early 70s Saturday night disco dancing purple elephant flared suit as cuts wagons out of the train. Hopefully Dapol have a suitable figure.

 

 

 

Surreal, and sums up just how weird the 70's were. A strange melange of pop-era and residual Victoriana.

Only for the fact that I lived through the period, I'd hardly believe it.

[Guest hidden-agenda]

First class work K see you shortly.

[Sulzer201]

Kirley as per usual the photos of your layout and work are top drawer and always a pleasure to follow the thread. Did they use JCBs and move them like that on CIE in the 70s? Is that low loader identical to the one that big Dave was flogging recently?