Category Archives: Modelling
A Pair of CDR ‘Twins’
Paul Titmuss Maybe surprisingly there are two kits available for the County Donegal Railways 1893 Oldbury vans in 4mm scale. One is the ‘heritage’ plastic kit by Ninelines, introduced around 1989, the other a card kit by Alphagraphix from … Continue reading
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Some Irish Conversions
Denis Grimshaw Whilst these models are not built to fine-scale standards, and certainly not to a professional level, they do reasonably represent the classes modelled. In any case, using 00-gauge track at in 4mm scale gives much larger discrepancies … Continue reading
A Rake of Coaches: Or How Solving One Problem Leads to Another
John Mayne It started out simply enough early in 2004. I saw the listing for a laminate brake standard on the Worsley Works web site and thinking it was a model of the 1958 brake composites, I bought the … Continue reading
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Hints on Putting Together Etched Brass Coach Kits
Jeremy Fletcher Brass etch kits, or etching sets, provide a useful way to produce good quality models of non-mainstream or obscure prototypes which are not of interest to the larger commercial model manufacturers who need large production runs to … Continue reading
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Converting the Murphy-Bachmann 141 Class Diesel to 21mm Gauge
Denis Bates The General Motors 141 Class diesel of CIE was introduced in 1962, and for over 40 years has been among the most successful of the Irish diesels. So it was not by accident that Murphy Models chose … Continue reading
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Something New; Something Old
David Malone Several modellers have had a go at fitting sound chips into the Bachmann-Murphy 141 although some seem to be using slightly larger speakers than I did. To replace the unusable round one supplied. I did no filing, … Continue reading
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Norwich to… Cultra?
Steve Rafferty Of all the numerous visits to model railway exhibitions I have made, only once have I been rewarded with sight of an “Irish” layout (Adavolye at Epsom). Putting my faith in providence, my money on a budget … Continue reading
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Something a Bit Bigger…
I am grateful to Neil Ramsay for these photos of his wonderful 15mm scale model of CDR six-wheel saloon no 1. The bodywork is cut from plywood, built up in layers to produce the panelling, the use of real … Continue reading
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The UTA’s Finest Train
Colm Flanagan My story of this train goes back to late 1966, when I was a boarding pupil at Coleraine Institute. Going home for the occasional weekend pass, we boarders were gathered as usual on the down platform at … Continue reading
Building a Worsley Works CIE G Class
Jeremy Fletcher I put together a Worsley Works 4mm etch set of the CIE G-class 0-4-0 diesel for Jim Edgar (“Jim Markle”) who required one for his intended ‘OO’ Irish branch line. The etch set arrived in the usual … Continue reading
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