NoelG Posted February 27, 2021 Author Share Posted February 27, 2021 10 minutes ago, Georgeconna said: Nice Touch Noel. Thanks George, Donal over on FB helped me discover a better font 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelG Posted February 28, 2021 Author Share Posted February 28, 2021 Some tweaking needed but we're getting there 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achil Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 On 27/02/2021 at 21:35, NoelG said: Thanks George, Donal over on FB helped me discover a better font Perfect - which font? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelG Posted March 2, 2021 Author Share Posted March 2, 2021 32 minutes ago, jhb171achil said: Perfect - which font? These are the two gaelic fonts I managed to install on my mac. No 1 is the one I've used on the sign board. IrishUncialfabeta-Bold MeathFLF 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelG Posted March 3, 2021 Author Share Posted March 3, 2021 Might need a few tulips or roses to brighten these bedding plants up a little or a touch of blue. Just some filing left to do. These will make platform beds. The more I continue with this very enjoyable project and the more I look at photos the more I see what has yet to be done and the list becomes like ever expanding foam to infinity. 5 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Davey Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 1 hour ago, NoelG said: Might need a few tulips or roses to brighten these bedding plants up a little or a touch of blue. Just some filing left to do. These will make platform beds. The more I continue with this very enjoyable project and the more I look at photos the more I see what has yet to be done and the list becomes like ever expanding foam to infinity. These look superb Noel!!!! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelG Posted March 4, 2021 Author Share Posted March 4, 2021 Some more progress on Gort. Its beginning to come together at last. Looking forward to shunting this layout circa 1967 Gort goods yard was very busy. The town was a hub for building supplies, agri produce, farm supplies and a market town I'm content that the place has a look of Gort railway station about it 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mol_PMB Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 Those flower beds look great! Excellent work and you are certainly capturing the location well. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelG Posted March 5, 2021 Author Share Posted March 5, 2021 So enjoying this journey of learning, discovery, and fun. And . . . thanks to my wonderful dad who left this life 40 years ago for running his trains on the floor under my cot as an infant and giving me this wonderful train set bug for life. So glad he never lost his inner big child. I still have much of his Hornby Dublo stock in the attic. Lots more yet to be done, but sure that's the fun part of it, endless landscaping and scenics that never end like gardening. 6 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Davey Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Wow!! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirley Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Great result Noel. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
antony Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Gort-geous! It's coming together very well 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunslet 102 Posted March 6, 2021 Share Posted March 6, 2021 Great job, well done 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelG Posted March 6, 2021 Author Share Posted March 6, 2021 Gort activity. 14:15 Limerick to Westport working waiting in the loop for the Athenry to Ennis Goods trains to pass. Yard crane should be installed tomorrow. The cattle escaped and the signal man and two shunters are running across the fields trying to chase them back to the yard. The driver and guard in the cab of B188 are laughing their asses off at the men chasing the cattle in the adjacent fields. Limerick to Westport via Athenry and Claremorris waits for the starter signal (not yet built), so could be a while. The cattle dock will get much use from Provincial Wagons cattle wagons once I put the gates on it. And to save the signalman's legs. Late evening the moody CIE Laminate with its pronounced tumblehome waits in the loop for traffic. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mol_PMB Posted March 6, 2021 Share Posted March 6, 2021 Very nice! What that passenger train needs is one of the 6-wheel GSVs... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelG Posted March 7, 2021 Author Share Posted March 7, 2021 Twas fiddley getting a good fixing for the cattle pen fencing on the dock but found a solution using wire pins. Now for the pen gates. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirley Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 I used that method as well Noel, helps stabilise the structure. I stuck a brass pin to the side of the gate and used it to swivel the gate. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirley Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 16 hours ago, Mol_PMB said: Very nice! What that passenger train needs is one of the 6-wheel GSVs... One of these... build by Gareth Brennan 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelG Posted March 7, 2021 Author Share Posted March 7, 2021 23 hours ago, Mol_PMB said: Very nice! What that passenger train needs is one of the 6-wheel GSVs... Ah one of these? Silverfox do them RTR. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelG Posted March 7, 2021 Author Share Posted March 7, 2021 7 hours ago, kirley said: One of these... build by Gareth Brennan Stunning scratch build. Love the gangway details and the roof details. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mol_PMB Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 19 minutes ago, NoelG said: Ah one of these? Silverfox do them RTR. That's better! Irish modelling has come a long way since I attempted it 20 years ago. That model does need some tanks fitting to the underframe though - a very distinctive feature of the design. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelG Posted March 7, 2021 Author Share Posted March 7, 2021 19 minutes ago, Mol_PMB said: That's better! Irish modelling has come a long way since I attempted it 20 years ago. That model does need some tanks fitting to the underframe though - a very distinctive feature of the design. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelG Posted March 7, 2021 Author Share Posted March 7, 2021 Revised train formation as its march and heating needed. A single laminate coach with a HLV up front and tailed by a 6 wheeled HLV. The leading HLV being repositioned to Sligo via Claremorris. I just love this CIE golden era that I remember so well. Often branch trains had just a single coach and a heating van. Nowadays just boring plastic yo-yo DMU/ICRs, no locos, no run arounds, no shunting, so marshalling stock, few station points needed, no buffering up for coupling, etc. Progress and more efficient but dull as ditch water to model and operate. B188 awaits the starter signal at Gort bound for Claremorris via Athenry and Tuam. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelG Posted March 9, 2021 Author Share Posted March 9, 2021 Goods yard area has some progress Happy with the little yard crane 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelG Posted March 11, 2021 Author Share Posted March 11, 2021 (edited) The Cattle dock now has a proper pen with gates, cattle, dung and some weeds Cattle waiting to be loaded on provincial wagons van bound for Tuam on the afternoon pick up goods train. Provincial wagons cattle wagon will be shunted around to this side of the dock later. Cattle about to be loaded Edited March 11, 2021 by NoelG 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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