RMweb Gold Argos Posted November 5, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 5, 2019 (edited) Ah! indeed we have. I asked you the same question over there! At least I'm consistent. I'm about to dig the drawing board out and draw the building up. I'm too tight to buy the Alphagraphix kit (it's the wrong scale anyway) I already have their signal box and goods shed kits to crib from. Edited November 5, 2019 by Argos Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irish Padre Posted November 5, 2019 Author Share Posted November 5, 2019 14 minutes ago, Argos said: Ah! indeed we have. I asked you the same question over there! At least I'm consistent. I'm about to dig the drawing board out and draw the building up. I'm too tight to buy the Alphagraphix kit (it's the wrong scale anyway) I already have their signal box and goods shed kits to crib from. Great - that will give you the quoin shapes etc anyway.., Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achil Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 I love the open door into the station waiting room. Superb touch of realism. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irish Padre Posted November 13, 2019 Author Share Posted November 13, 2019 Industry for Rosses Point. 1930s style low relief factory. Scratch build from card and assorted bits 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irish Padre Posted November 16, 2019 Author Share Posted November 16, 2019 (edited) Frantic progress at Rosses Point today. Track laid including the harbour branch. Edited November 17, 2019 by Irish Padre 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irish Padre Posted November 24, 2019 Author Share Posted November 24, 2019 (edited) Track wired after many short-finding sessions. Trains are running!! Can’t upload video but here’s a few stills....test ran chassis of new loco too Edited November 24, 2019 by Irish Padre 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irish Padre Posted December 23, 2019 Author Share Posted December 23, 2019 (edited) Slow progress at Rosses Point but beginning to replicate SLNC ash ballast style. Quay line has clearly seen no traffic for some time.... Edited December 23, 2019 by Irish Padre 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damo666 Posted December 23, 2019 Share Posted December 23, 2019 (edited) You'll have to change this at some stage to an 'EI' number plate (EI not as in Ireland, but as in the Sligo county code for car registrations). JEI 390 would be around the late 1960s, so you'd need to work back from there perhaps. Edited December 24, 2019 by Damo666 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irish Padre Posted December 23, 2019 Author Share Posted December 23, 2019 (edited) Thanks Damo. It’s on the list to do but for now the van is an English -or Ulster -trader visiting his Irish supplier! For nostalgic reasons it may get an IT plate - which I remember most from visiting my Leitrim family in the 70s... Edited December 23, 2019 by Irish Padre 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achil Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 (edited) Yes, the Leitrim registrations were always a great source of amusement, especially if they began with "G" or "T".......! You also had BIT, SIT, FIT, HIT, KIT, LIT, NIT, ZIT, PIT, WIT...... Love the weeds on the track in front of the shed..... Edited December 27, 2019 by jhb171achil 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irish Padre Posted December 27, 2019 Author Share Posted December 27, 2019 (edited) 21 hours ago, jhb171achil said: Yes, the Leitrim registrations were always a great source of amusement, especially if they began with "G" or "T".......! You also had BIT, SIT, FIT, HIT, KIT, LIT, NIT, ZIT, PIT, WIT...... Love the weeds on the track in front of the shed..... Cheers JHB - I also liked the rear red plates of the 70s which looked more exotic than UK yellow! Probably my bad photography but the line actually ends, not at a shed but at a gate, the purported boundary of the Rosses Point Harbour Tramway - long abandoned by 1950! The stub of the harbour line, in significant need of maintenance, serves the station as siding space..second pic shows the gate before I painted the walls. Edited December 27, 2019 by Irish Padre 9 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irish Padre Posted January 4, 2020 Author Share Posted January 4, 2020 Bit more progress... 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted January 4, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 4, 2020 Really nice job, how you’ve done the texturing of the ground cover, most convincing. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irish Padre Posted January 4, 2020 Author Share Posted January 4, 2020 (edited) Thank you! It’s a combination of Nevard and Gravett methods with a twist of my own. DAS clay over everything including track up to sleeper level. Then paint selectively with ‘lava paint’ from Winsor and Newton (other brands exist). Paint everything with grey/brown emulsion from tester pots. Whilst that’s drying, liberally sprinkle with white pepper. Add static grass to taste (mine was a homage to the SLNC track at Manorhamilton). It’s not quick and entombing track in clay challenges one’s resolve, especially when a bespoke Marcway turnout is involved. But it seems to have worked... Edited January 4, 2020 by Irish Padre 4 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted January 5, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 5, 2020 White pepper is a new one to me! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irish Padre Posted January 5, 2020 Author Share Posted January 5, 2020 It’s a Gordon Gravett trick which he advises for use on gloss enamel to give road textures etc. It was new to me too! My initial effort at DAS ballasting looked too smooth. Looking at pictures of the SLNC track revealed a subtle texture which was a kind of gritty mud - neither smooth nor gravel. The lava paint I spotted in a craft store gives some grit whilst the pepper adds a subtle mottled effect. These J G Dewing pics from Tom Ferris’s ‘Irish Railways in Colour’ show what I mean better than I can explain it! 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irish Padre Posted February 9, 2020 Author Share Posted February 9, 2020 Few more pics, of basic backscenes in progress.... 5 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irish Padre Posted February 14, 2020 Author Share Posted February 14, 2020 (edited) Rosses Point began exactly a year ago today when I decided to sell my English layout. Cue a pretentious pic to show progress thus far.... Edited February 14, 2020 by Irish Padre 11 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirley Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 Delightfully pretentious. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted February 15, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 15, 2020 Looks really good, some resemblance to Craggy Island in that picture? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irish Padre Posted February 15, 2020 Author Share Posted February 15, 2020 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pat141 Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 It looks just like it was when you look at old photographs in books, especially the B & W pic's. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irish Padre Posted February 15, 2020 Author Share Posted February 15, 2020 (edited) Cheers Pat!! I do like playing with the colour filters.,,, Edited February 15, 2020 by Irish Padre 8 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bailey Gate Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 Not my era, nor my area of interest, but just has that "something" about it that I really like... Cracking work... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irish Padre Posted March 8, 2020 Author Share Posted March 8, 2020 (edited) Slow progress continues on erecting the 2-4-2T. Much flexing of brass to get the curvaceous Inchicore running plate just right.....the soldering isn’t quite as bad as it looks but the front corner of the tank needed a fillet of NS wire to fill a gap. Once filed it’ll look ok - I think! The crude brass square on the tank replicates the equally crude steel square that CIE imposed as a numberplate on the real No 42 Edited March 8, 2020 by Irish Padre 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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